Get Details of Articles
Extracts information from an article, including title, author, published date, body, excerpt, number of words, main image URL, URL, and name.
Estimate reading time
Gets the length of an article from input and divides the words by 200 to get a rough reading estimate.
Actions Used
Get Article using Safari Reader
Gets article details, including body text, author, publish date, and more, from every URL passed into the action.
Input
URLs
Result
Article
Note
Use a Get Details of Article action immediately after this action to get specific details about the article. This action only supports getting one article from each URL.
Calculate
Performs a number operation on the input and returns the result.
Extra Details
Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Estimate%20reading%20time
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Estimate%20reading%20time
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Estimate reading time”
end tell
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