Count characters in text
Gets text from input or prompts you to enter it, then counts the length of the string.
Percent Encode text
Replaces any special characters in the input with percent-encoding that makes it function properly in URLs.
Shortcut Information
This shortcut gives basic Percent Encoding formatting to any text used as input by replacing characters like spaces or special characters like ampersands, parantheses, and more with the designated encoding strings as defined by web standards.
The shortcut uses a Dictionary of all the special characters and their correspoding strings—like %20 for spaces—and looks for each of them in the inputted text, replacing them one-by-one with the proper strings.
At the end, you should have a URL with text%20that%20looks%20like%20this.
The shortcut uses a Dictionary of all the special characters and their correspoding strings—like %20 for spaces—and looks for each of them in the inputted text, replacing them one-by-one with the proper strings.
At the end, you should have a URL with text%20that%20looks%20like%20this.
Category
Complexity
Interactivity
Extra Details
Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Percent%20Encode%20text
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Percent%20Encode%20text
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Percent Encode text”
end tell
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