View in Wayback machine
Take a link from the Share sheet or yourclipboard and open it in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to see past versions of the page.
Actions Used
Open URLs
Opens URLs passed into the action in Safari (or the corresponding app if it’s a deep link).
Extra Details
Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=View%20in%20Wayback%20machine
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=View%20in%20Wayback%20machine
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “View in Wayback machine”
end tell
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