Copy to Clipboard
Copies the result of the last action to the clipboard.
Scrape session titles
For a given list of Apple Developer session URLs, this will iterate through each, grabbing the name of the webpage, cleaning it up, and reformatting it into a Markdown list before copying that to your clipboard.
Actions Used
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.
Get Contents of Web Page
Extracts the contents of the web pages passed into the action.
Combine Text
Joins text together, inserting the separator between each join.
Get Group from Matched Text
Gets the text that matched a particular capture group or all of the capture groups from the output of a Match Text action.
Match Text
Searches text passed into the action for matches to a regular expression.
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.
Get Name
Returns the name of every item passed as input. Depending on the input, this could be a file name, the title of a website, the title of a calendar event, etc.
Nothing
This action does nothing and produces no output. It is useful to separate blocks of actions, or to ensure that no input is passed to the next action.
Extra Details
Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Scrape%20session%20titles
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Scrape%20session%20titles
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Scrape session titles”
end tell
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