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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Open from top movies
Gets the top 10 movies currently sold on iTunes, asks you to choose from the list, and opens the URL of your choice.
Open Apple RSS feed generator
Opens the page for Apple Marketing Tools to generate RSS feeds for various iTunes properties from Apple.
Open latest movie trailers
Opens the deep link into the TV app to the Movies and TV Trailers section.
Open from top TV episodes
Gets the top 10 TV episodes currently sold on iTunes and opens the URL of your choice.
Search the Apple TV Store
Asks you to enter a search query and category of media, then searches the iTunes Store, asks you pick from the results, and opens it in the Apple TV app.
Open from top TV seasons
Gets 10 items from Apple’s RSS feed for top TV seasons, presents the options to you, and opens the URL for your choice into iTunes.
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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