So far, my attempt to use my ‘Publish Quote’ shortcut on the Mac has resulted in:
And now I’m inching toward releasing a huge update to ‘Publish Quote’. Stay tuned.
@ericmwalk A replacement for an old one that I wasn’t really happy with. Nothing too exciting there, I’m afraid, and I doubt anyone will notice.
@pratik It’s always the URL that needs to be shared into the shortcut, so on macOS you’d right-click on the URL in Safari’s address bar and select it from the Services menu after copying the quote. For hyperlinks, it often tries to share the text into the Service rather than the URL, so after right-clicking on one of those I choose Share → Shortcuts → Publish Quote and it works much better.
As for iOS, that’s more curious. It was working fine in my tests earlier, but now I’m running into my own issue. What app were you trying to share from there?
@pratik Can you check to see if the variables in ‘Get Item from List’ and the ‘Text’ action after it are set as URLs? My phone apparently didn’t keep them set right even though the Mac did. 🙄
@pratik I’m also curious if the counting/publishing actions are receiving the right variables since we know Shortcuts loves to lose track of them. The counting one should be set to text-to-publish while the publishing one should be set to Provided Input.
@pratik Let’s try this version, and if things are still wonky then I think the issue may lay with the ‘Count Characters’ shortcut itself.
