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.
Quote of the Day
Write down good lines from a podcast and save a link back to that episode.
Actions Used
Get Article using Safari Reader
Gets article details, including body text, author, publish date, and more, from every URL passed into the action.
Input
URLs
Result
Article
Note
Use a Get Details of Article action immediately after this action to get specific details about the article. This action only supports getting one article from each URL.
Copy to Clipboard
Copies the result of the last action to the clipboard.
Repeat with Each
Takes a list of items as input, and runs the contained actions once for each item in the list.
If
Tests if a condition is true, and if so, runs the actions inside. Otherwise, the actions under “Otherwise” are run.
Choose from Menu
Presents a menu and runs different actions based on which menu item was chosen.
Set Variable
Sets the value of the specified variable to the input of this action.
Get URLs from Input
Returns any links found in the output from the previous action.
Combine Text
Joins text together, inserting the separator between each join.
Make Rich Text from Markdown
Takes the inputted Markdown and turns it into rich text, which can then be converted to other formats.
Get Item from List
Returns one or more items from the list passed as input. You can get the first item, the last item, a random item, the item at a particular index, or items in a range of indexes.
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.
Get Details of Podcast Episode
Gets a specific piece of information from the podcast episodes passed into the action.
Get Details of Podcast
Gets a specific piece of information from the podcast episodes passed into the action.
Search Podcasts
Searches Podcasts, returning the items that match the specified search terms.
Get Podcasts from Library
Gets a list of all shows in your Podcast library
Extra Details
Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Quote%20of%20the%20Day
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Quote%20of%20the%20Day
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Quote of the Day”
end tell
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Start Podcasts
Immediately play the latest episode or first item in Listen Now in the Podcasts app.
Search and subscribe
Find a podcast by title, host, or link and subscribe to it immediately.
Podcast Walk
Asks you to pick a podcast, then starts an Outdoor Walk workout on the Apple Watch.
Auto-station
Automatically plays one of your Station presets depending on the time of day.
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Open the emoji picker
Uses AppleScript to press the key combination for the Special Characters palette.
Edit gaming contact
Prompts you to enter first, last, and nickname details for a contact before adding them to a pre-programmed group. Useful for gaming friends over Discord.
Open Apple TV Sports
Opens the TV app to the Sports tab to show categories like football, soccer, baseball, and other sports alongside your Favorite Teams.
Generate filing timestamp
Copies the current date and time in a good format for pre-pending to filenames to ensure the list is always ordered well when sorted alphabetically.
Show my Sleep data
Opens the Health app into the Sleep category so you can check data tracked by Apple Watch or other apps.
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