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 books
Presents a choice between Free or Paid, then gets the top 50 books from that category, presents them to you, and opens the URL of your choice.
Actions Used
Change Case
Changes the case of the text passed into the action to UPPERCASE, lowercase, or Title Case.
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.
List
Allows you to specify a list of items to be passed to the next action.
Extra Details
Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Open%20from%20top%2050%20books
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Open%20from%20top%2050%20books
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Open from top 50 books”
end tell
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Gets the top 10 TV episodes currently sold on iTunes and opens the URL of your choice.
What’s the rental of the week?
Shows options for various ways to watch video, whether picture-in-picture on the current device or using an Apple TV setup. Includes scenes for TV mode and movie mode, a way to quickly put lyrics onto an Apple TV, and a quick link to the latest $0.99 rental in iTunes.
Open from top 50 apps
Presents a choice between Free or Paid, then gets the RSS feed from Apple, retrieves 50 items for you to choose from, and opens the result.
Open from top movies
Gets the top 10 movies currently sold on iTunes, asks you to choose from the list, and opens the URL of your choice.
Open from top TV seasons
Gets 10 items from Apple’s RSS feed for top TV seasons, presents the options to you, and opens the URL for your choice into iTunes.
Open from top 50 most-played podcasts
Gets 50 items from Apple’s RSS feed for most-played podcasts, presents the list to you, and opens the URL of your choice into the Podcasts app.
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Complete dictionary of YouTube playlists in your collection, grouped by Personal or Work, then subgroups by category.
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