Choose from Menu
Presents a menu and runs different actions based on which menu item was chosen.
Explore Apple Music hosts
Presents a playlist of Apple Music host pages and opens the deep link into that section of the Music app.
Actions Used
Open URLs
Opens URLs passed into the action in Safari (or the corresponding app if it’s a deep link).
Extra Details
Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Explore%20Apple%20Music%20hosts
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Explore%20Apple%20Music%20hosts
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Explore Apple Music hosts”
end tell
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