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Extracts information from an article, including title, author, published date, body, excerpt, number of words, main image URL, URL, and name.
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.
Actions Used
Replace Text
Replaces some text passed into the action with other text.
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%20movies
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Open%20from%20top%20movies
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Open from top movies”
end tell
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Open the TV Store
Opens the Store tab of the TV app to show the top TV shows and Movies that are on sale.
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 latest movie trailers
Opens the deep link into the TV app to the Movies and TV Trailers section.
Search the Apple TV Store
Asks you to enter a search query and category of media, then searches the iTunes Store, asks you pick from the results, and opens it in the Apple TV app.
Open Apple RSS feed generator
Opens the page for Apple Marketing Tools to generate RSS feeds for various iTunes properties from Apple.
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.
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Opens the Portrait camera to the Selfie mode – my preferred way to take selfies, but one I forget to use (until now).
Play Connected
Plays the Connected podcast from Relay.FM with Myke Hurley, Stephen Hackett, and Federico Viticci.
Play a MacStories podcast
Presents a menu of MacStories shows, then plays the next episode from the selected show based on the preselected custom sort order (or default order from the Podcasts app).
Find my car in Google Maps
Gets your Parked Car location and opens it in Google Maps.
Special characters
Contains a dictionary of names and symbols that, when passed into Choose From List, becomes selectable – for whichever option is chosen, the corresponding symbol will be passed out and copied to the clipboard.
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