Apple Podcasts for Creators

Crop podcast artwork with Pixelmator

Extracts the name and artwork for a given podcast, crops it to 16x9 using Pixelmator Pro for Mac, and saves the renamed file into Downloads.

Actions Used

Control Flow, Scripting

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

Documents, File storage

Save File

Save files to iCloud Drive. Turn off “Ask Where to Save” in order to specify a destination path in the Shortcuts folder.

Scripting, Variables

Set Variable

Sets the value of the specified variable to the input of this action.

Documents, Text Editing

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.

Documents, Text Editing

Match Text

Searches text passed into the action for matches to a regular expression.

Items, Scripting

Set Name

Sets the name of the item passed as input.

Lists, Scripting

Choose from List

Presents a menu of the items passed as input to the action and outputs the user’s selection. Prompt The instruction provided when the list is presented. Select Multiple When enabled, multiple items may be chosen from the list.

Media, Podcasts

Get Details of Podcast Episode

Gets a specific piece of information from the podcast episodes passed into the action.

Media, Podcasts

Search Podcasts

Searches Podcasts, returning the items that match the specified search terms.

Notification, Scripting

Ask for Input

Prompts the user to enter a piece of information.

Extra Details

Run Shortcut deep link

shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Crop%20podcast%20artwork%20with%20Pixelmator

Open Shortcut deep link

shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Crop%20podcast%20artwork%20with%20Pixelmator

AppleScript code

tell application “Shortcuts Events” run shortcut “Crop podcast artwork with Pixelmator” end tell

Membership, Shortcuts, Siri Shortcuts

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