jarrod
jarrod

Does anyone know of an ‘Open in Apple News’ extension or something? Or a URL scheme to open a link in News? I have News+ so there are articles like @joannastern@mastodon.world’s columns that are paywalled on the web but I could read in full in the app. Right now I search for the title in the app.

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jarrod
jarrod

@jarrod I’ve tried building a shortcut, but haven’t found the right tools yet.

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pratik
pratik

@jarrod I have wished for something like that. There are a few tools for the other direction, but nothing yet that will be sent to Apple News.

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jarrod
jarrod

@jarrod Turns out this does exist on iOS but you have to open the article in Safari-proper first. The extension doesn’t show up in Safari web views in other apps.

iPhone share sheet with a News button in the app row.

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jarrod
jarrod

@jarrod (You might have to add it from the ‘More’ menu if you don’t see it in Safari.)

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devondundee@mastodon.social
devondundee@mastodon.social

@jarrod I’ve been tripped up on this nearly every time I try to use it. I usually come across articles I want to read in web views within other apps, and I forget to open in Safari before looking for News in the share sheet.

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mako@sanjuans.life
mako@sanjuans.life

@jarrod here ya go…

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jarrod
jarrod

@mako I’ve tried that method before too, but it’s pretty hit or miss for me (example). Do you find it works consistently?

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pratik
pratik

@mako Is that a W or forward-back slashes in the third step?

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mako@sanjuans.life
mako@sanjuans.life

@jarrod weird; it’s generally worked pretty well for me. Have you tried something like this (I go back and forth on which method is better): apps.apple.com/us/app/opener-o

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jarrod
jarrod

@mako I’ve used Opener for other stuff, but couldn’t get it to work with Apple News either. Have you? Maybe there’s something weird happening on my end.

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mako@sanjuans.life
mako@sanjuans.life

@jarrod well, the only thing I know is not “all” articles from some sources, like WSJ are on Apple News. Maybe that’s what’s going on? Personally found the shortcut route usually most reliable, but every once in a while, the article just isn’t there.

Opener is a mixed bag too.

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jarrod
jarrod

@mako Maybe? But the one I’m testing on (and that I think worked once before it stopped working) is on Apple News.
Web: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/h...
News: apple.news/A7HSGXXxP...

Maybe you could try that one on your end?

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mako@sanjuans.life
mako@sanjuans.life

@jarrod yeah, doesn’t work for me either. But that Apple url looks suspicious.. wonder if there’s just a way to encode the original url to that.

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mako@sanjuans.life
mako@sanjuans.life

@jarrod perhaps a clue: github.com/Robindiddams/unappl

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mako@sanjuans.life
mako@sanjuans.life

@jarrod the only way I can get it to open properly in Apple news is to use the built-in Open in News part of the share sheet

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mako@sanjuans.life
mako@sanjuans.life

@jarrod in my last attempt, I decided to install Proxyman and watch the traffic when you press “open in news”, but still can’t see how it’s working. I guess just throwing “applenews://“ in front doesn’t really work liked it used to.

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jarrod
jarrod

@mako Something weird for sure. That’s all that seems to happen when I use the shortcut too. It just opens Apple News and does nothing with the URL.

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