RSS feeds

Check tech headlines

Pulls the RSS feed of Techmeme and returns the latest 5 article titles.

Scripting Actions

Dictionaries, Scripting

Dictionary

Passes the specified list of key-value pairs to the next action as a dictionary.

Dictionaries, Scripting

Get Dictionary from Input

Makes a dictionary from the text passed as input. JSON (like {“foo”: “bar”}), key-value pairs (like foo=bar&baz=biz), and XML-based plist are supported.

Control Flow, Scripting

Repeat with Each

Takes a list of items as input, and runs the contained actions once for each item in the list.

RSS, Web

Get Items from RSS Feed

Downloads the latest items from an RSS feed.

Articles, Web

Get Article using Safari Reader

Gets article details, including body text, author, publish date, and more, from every URL passed into the action. Input URLs Result Article Note Use a Get Details of Article action immediately after this action to get specific details about the article. This action only supports getting one article from each URL.

Articles, Web

Get Details of Articles

Extracts information from an article, including title, author, published date, body, excerpt, number of words, main image URL, URL, and name.

Apps, Dates

Format Date

Formats a date and time into text.

Control Flow, Scripting

Tests if a condition is true, and if so, runs the actions inside. Otherwise, the actions under “Otherwise” are run.

Documents, Text

Text

Passes the specified text to the next action.

No-ops, Scripting

Nothing

This action does nothing and produces no output. It is useful to separate blocks of actions, or to ensure that no input is passed to the next action.

Documents, Text Editing

Combine Text

Joins text together, inserting the separator between each join.

Documents, Previewing

Show Result

Shows the specified text in Siri or in an alert.

Extra Details

Link to Run Shortcut

shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Check%20tech%20headlines

Link to Open Shortcut

shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Check%20tech%20headlines

AppleScript code

tell application “Shortcuts Events” run shortcut “Check tech headlines” end tell

Membership

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