Embed a podcast episode player
Gets the latest episode from your Transistor podcast and scrapes out the ID for the media URL and pastes it into the episode embed player.
Actions
Set Variable
Sets the value of the specified variable to the input of this action.
Get Contents of URL
Gets the contents of URLs passed into the action. Useful for downloading files and web content, or for making API requests. Includes GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE methods, and options to add headers. To make a multipart HTTP request, choose “Form” as the request body type and add files as field values.
Get Dictionary Value
Gets the value for the specified key in the dictionary passed into the action.
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.
Repeat with Each
Takes a list of items as input, and runs the contained actions once for each item in the list.
Get Item from List
Returns one or more items from the list passed as input. You can get the first item, the last item, a random item, the item at a particular index, or items in a range of indexes.
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.
Copy to Clipboard
Copies the result of the last action to the clipboard.
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Get podcast show ID
Uses the Transistor API to look at your show data, gets the first show, and extracts the ID for use in your other shortcuts.
Show my podcast campaigns
Opens to the Campaigns tab on Transistor.fm to let you “configure ads, promotions, announcements, or other audio snippets to be included in your episodes.”
Edit ad locations for latest episode
Opens the “Ad Locations” page for the latest episode of your Transistor podcast.
Copy podcast playlist player embed
Takes the default embed code for multiple podcast episodes, inserts your podcast string, and copies the result to your clipboard to be pasted somewhere online.
Get podcast show attributes
Ues the Transistor API to get your show data and presents it in a nicely-formatted view. Requires the Actions app.
Show my podcast settings
Opens to the edit page for your specified podcast on Transistor.fm.
Extra Details
Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Embed%20a%20podcast%20episode%20player
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Embed%20a%20podcast%20episode%20player
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Embed a podcast episode player”
end tell
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Open any app
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