Something I’ve been hoping for for a long time is the ability to get a (sharing) link to my Shortcuts with Shortcuts – and with the latest developer beta of iOS and iPadOS (beta 2) it can be done!
Thankfully this is fairly simple to do, there are just 6 actions required to get a list of all your Shortcuts as Markdown links:
- Get my shortcuts
- Repeat with each item in
My Shortcuts- Get link to
Repeat Item - Text: [
Name][Link to File]
- Get link to
- Combine
Repeat ResultswithNew Lines - Share
Combined Text.
There is one caveat to this: Unfortunately you need to confirm getting the link to each Shortcuts from a prompt which appears.
Download the Shortcut: Get Shortcuts as Links
Now if you’ll excuse me I’m going to go and watch Netflix and tap the same prompt 900+ times.
Update! I’ve been experimenting and there’s also a way to just tap “Create Links” once: Get Markdown Links to Shortcuts – you get the links first and then iterate through them grabbing the names of the associated Shortcuts. As long as the order of the Shortcuts remains constant this is a much more user friendly workaround.
Paging @viticci, @MacSparky and @mattcassinelli
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This is pretty neat! Wish there was a way around not having to tap create link for every Shortcut – but much faster than doing it the other way!
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Much faster than doing it any other way!
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Isn’t the share button new too?
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That’s also just how this one was designed – passing multiple into Get Link to File means you only have to tap once, but you can’t get the names from the URL
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Is this the current iOS beta or the beta for the version of iOS after the current beta is released ? To clarify I mean is it the next version of iOS after the version to replace the current version is released ?
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This is the latest beta (13.1 dev beta 2)
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Surely that’s the technically the next beta 🤔😜😂
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How on earth did you discover this and create this shortcut so fast?
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I’ve had this as a “test after installing beta” shortcut since last summer 😉
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Amazing. Thanks for doing so!
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AMAZING!!!!!! YES!!!!!! – Is it confirmed that if you delete a Shortcut they are stored on Apple’s servers if you do this first? Would you trust this as a backup since we don’t have that anymore of the actual files?
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So if you dig into the API you can tell if the Shortcut is still installed or not. And the URLs don’t go away – so it should work perfectly as a backup. I won’t guarantee it though, but I’m 99% sure it will!
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Yes, you have to manually use Stop Sharing to remove it from iCloud – it’s always been the case that sharing creates a duplicate on the servers
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Awesome! Will need to make sure I import all my old shortcuts into iOS 12 before upgrading so I can then back them up with this!
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Sounds like an option to get into infinite-loop 😎
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It’s Shortcuts all the way down!!’
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