TV app

Open from Apple TV Plus

Presents menu options for opening into the Home, Shows, Movies, and Upcoming sections of Apple TV+ in the TV app, plus categories for genres.

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Scripting Actions

Control Flow, Scripting

Choose from Menu

Presents a menu and runs different actions based on which menu item was chosen.

URLs, Web

URL

Passes the specified URL to the next action.

Scripting, Variables

Set Variable

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

Web, Web Requests

Get Contents of Web Page

Extracts the contents of the web pages passed into the action.

Documents, Rich Text

Make HTML from Rich Text

Converts the rich text passed as input to HTML text.

Documents, Text Editing

Match Text

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

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

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.

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.

Dictionaries, Scripting

Dictionary

Passes the specified list of key-value pairs to the next action as a dictionary.

Control Flow, Scripting

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

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.

URLs, Web

Get URLs from Input

Returns any links found in the output from the previous action.

Safari, Web

Open URLs

Opens URLs passed into the action in Safari (or the corresponding app if it’s a deep link).

Extra Details

Link to Run Shortcut

shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Open%20from%20Apple%20TV%20Plus

Link to Open Shortcut

shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Open%20from%20Apple%20TV%20Plus

AppleScript code

tell application “Shortcuts Events” run shortcut “Open from Apple TV Plus” end tell

Apple TV, Entertainment, Membership, Public, TV app

Custom Shortcuts

Updated in the Shortcuts Library: TV app shortcuts

Enjoy my TV app shortcuts, designed with my updated Shortcuts-building process in mind – check out the new Watchlist shortcut!

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