Copy to Clipboard
Copies the result of the last action to the clipboard.
Clean up book quote
Takes highlighted text shared from Books and scrapes out the extra metadata.
Actions Used
If
Tests if a condition is true, and if so, runs the actions inside. Otherwise, the actions under “Otherwise” are run.
Get Group from Matched Text
Gets the text that matched a particular capture group or all of the capture groups from the output of a Match Text action.
Replace Text
Replaces some text passed into the action with other text.
Match Text
Searches text passed into the action for matches to a regular expression.
Extra Details
Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Clean%20up%20book%20quote
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Clean%20up%20book%20quote
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Clean up book quote”
end tell
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