Clean up book quote

Takes highlighted text shared from Books and scrapes out the extra metadata.

Scripting Actions

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If
Tests if a condition is true, and if so, runs the actions inside. Otherwise, the actions under “Otherwise” are run.
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Ask for Input
Prompts the user to enter a piece of information.
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Match Text
Searches text passed into the action for matches to a regular expression.
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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.
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Replace Text
Replaces some text passed into the action with other text.
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Copy to Clipboard
Copies the result of the last action to the clipboard.
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Show Notification
Displays a local notification.

Extra Details

Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Clean%20up%20book%20quote
Link to Open Shortcut
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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