RSS feeds

Save RSS author to Contacts

Pulls recent links from my blog's RSS feed and lets me choose which ones I want to share, then formats them as a Markdown linked list and copies it to my clipboard.

Actions Used

Control Flow, Scripting

Repeat with Each

Takes a list of items as input, and runs the contained actions once for each item in the list.

Control Flow, Scripting

Tests if a condition is true, and if so, runs the actions inside. Otherwise, the actions under “Otherwise” are run.

Documents, Text Editing

Split Text

Separates text passed into the action into a list.

Documents, Text

Get Text from Input

Returns text from the previous action’s output. For example, this action can get the name of a photo or song, or the text of a web page.

Items, Scripting

Count

Counts the number of items, characters, words, sentences, or lines passed as input. Note (from Apple, for real) This is just like the Count in Sesame Street, but instead of a vampire, it’s a Shortcuts action.

Lists, Scripting

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.

Lists, Scripting

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.

RSS, Web

Get RSS Feeds from Page

Extracts any RSS feed URLs from the given web URLs or web page.

RSS, Web

Get Items from RSS Feed

Downloads the latest items from an RSS feed.

Apps, Contacts

Edit Contact

Sets a specific field of the contact passed into the action. Detail The property of the contact to edit. Edit The operation to perform on the selected property of the contact.