Transistor.FM

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.

Scripting Actions

Scripting, Shortcuts

Run Shortcut

Run an shortcut from your shortcut.

Scripting, Variables

Set Variable

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

URLs, Web

URL

Passes the specified URL to the next action.

Web, Web Requests

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.

Dictionaries, Scripting

Get Dictionary Value

Gets the value for the specified key in the dictionary passed into the action.

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.

Documents, Text Editing

Split Text

Separates text passed into the action into a list.

Lists, Scripting

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.

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.

Documents, Text

Text

Passes the specified text to the next action.

Clipboard, Sharing

Copy to Clipboard

Copies the result of the last action to the clipboard.

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

Membership

Custom Shortcuts, Membership

New podcasting shortcuts for Transistor.FM

While working on my podcasting workflow, I developed these shortcuts for my hosting service Transistor.FM.

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