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.
Open from top 50 audiobooks
Gets the RSS feed for top 50 audiobooks, presents the list, and opens the URL of your choice in the Books app.
Actions Used
Open URLs
Opens URLs passed into the action in Safari (or the corresponding app if it’s a deep link).
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.
Extra Details
Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Open%20from%20top%2050%20audiobooks
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Open%20from%20top%2050%20audiobooks
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Open from top 50 audiobooks”
end tell
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