What’s the rental of the week?
Gets the latest RSS item from $0.99 Rentals, gets the URL from the page, and opens it in iTunes.
Actions
Get Contents of URL
Gets the contents of URLs passed into the action. Useful for downloading files and web content, or for making API requests. Includes GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE methods, and options to add headers. To make a multipart HTTP request, choose “Form” as the request body type and add files as field values.
Get URLs from Input
Returns any links found in the output from the previous action.
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.
Open URLs
Opens URLs passed into the action in Safari (or the corresponding app if it’s a deep link).
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Extra Details
Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=What%E2%80%99s%20the%20rental%20of%20the%20week%3F
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=What%E2%80%99s%20the%20rental%20of%20the%20week%3F
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “What’s the rental of the week?”
end tell
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