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Workflow can't program workflows, if you want to do that you need something like Launch Center Pro, but that one only can send timely triggers or location triggers, not based on other factors (eg the weather tomorrow).
Hi, i've recently made a simple Workflow that adds url to Pocket tagged "rss".
https://workflow.is/workflows/f34a8a00245b43ffb31f7d211ca09df0
Then i combined it with IFTTT that adds any URL in Pocket tagged "rss" to feedly.
https://ifttt.com/recipes/264549?z=788115
It works, You don't need feed URL and there are many ways to trigger that action in IFTTT!
Hope I helped You a little ;) cheers!
Hey there!
Facebook has recently deprecated the API which allowed services such as IFTTT or Buffer to automate posting as a personal profile. You can still add posts to a Facebook Page using an IFTTT trigger to queue something to Buffer.
IFTTT works great if you have an applet to trigger, otherwise just check out the Buffer app for posting to Facebook pages.
But yeah, sadly it is not really very possible due to the limitations of Facebook. The best you could do is to use Workflow to store a little text snippet and maybe a Today Widget style Workflow to quickly grab it when you need it.
Let me know if you need any specifics or other advice!
Interestingly, my wife and I were talking about how to do this yesterday (if we were to hire a nanny). I decided on not using the workflow app.
- Ask the nanny to install ifttt app on her smart phone and run this applet.
Automatically log work hours in a spreadsheet https://ifttt.com/applets/142992p
- Write a google sheets formula to calculate totals you need and do the overtime calculations.
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- Use workflow to grab the total values once per week (or whenever requested) so you can write a check.
Hope this helps.
iOS manages this automatically. Removing the apps from the task switcher won't actually help your iPhone run better. See this article: http://www.howtogeek.com/204552/no-closing-background-apps-on-your-iphone-or-ipad-wont-make-it-faster/
I just got an Apple Watch yesterday and I've been playing around with it. If you have any non-Home Kit home automation devices, setting up triggers for them with IFTTT is neat. I have it set up with my Nest, for instance.
Looks like your API was fine! The dictionary was the issue so I used match text with some regex :) Dark Sky Historical Weather.
Edit: For anyone looking at this, the Dark Sky API is free up to 1000 calls per day, go play!
Yes definitely!
Use the match action with the following regex to find the whole string.
Useful_Number: [0-9]{5}
Here's what it matches: http://rubular.com/r/2HcqTjI1vd
Then once you have this out of the text you can use replace action, to just get the number.
Hi, I was able to do it using Launch Center Pro by Contrast https://appsto.re/us/OZETF.i I created a trigger on IFTTT to toggle Wemo: https://ifttt.com/recipes/229241-wemo-toggle-for-launch-center-pro And then added this action to LCP: launch://ifttt/trigger?name={{ToggleWemo}} And now I'm able to turn the living room light from anywhere :-)
Workflow can’t do anything automatically. Apple always requires at least one user-interaction at runtime. For example, IFTTT can automatically trigger lots of things. However, not Workflow. It has to issue a notification and the notification can run a Workflow after you tap the notification. Here’s a sample IFTTT applet that illustrates this:
- iOS: Run a Workflow when an email arrives 📬
- https://ifttt.com/applets/CsADNVwv
I know this is /r/workflow but this might be easier in IFTTT. You can set up an Applet that will monitor a specific playlist and if a new song is added, you can add that song to a different playlist.
It should also only track new songs so that you don’t get duplicates added to the new playlist.
ok, I think I figured out a way using reminders.
Ifttt get the link for the new song in the playlist and creates an entry in reminders.
When a new reminder is created workflow gets the info, searches for the song and deletes the entry in reminders.
Still testing tho.
https://workflow.is/workflows/12398d67196d47a28cd84eda0465a321
I know its quite basic but I'm still working on it.
By 'Exchange' do you mean the Office calendar? I think there's some IFTTT applets that auto sync your Google Calendar, iOS and Office calendars
https://ifttt.com/connect/office_365_calendar/google_calendar for instance
Is it for your own website? If so you can get free HTTPS certificates with Lets Encrypt that are properly signed so you shouldn’t get that error. Otherwise you should install the certificate to your device.
Yep. Easy. You have to use google search URL scheme to activate the "I'm Feeling Lucky" function.
See here: https://moz.com/ugc/the-ultimate-guide-to-the-google-search-parameters
Edit: for clarification, use the "Open URL" command in Workflow and hen put your custom Google search URL in it. If you need to use variables, don't forget you can include variables within your URL.
I can't help you with the first, but with the second if you create the text in the plaintext box using Markdown, and then use the action Make Rich Text from Markdown that should help.
I use Sonarr for my tv shows. They have an option to use an iCal to see what shows are on and when. So I made a workflow that will show me what's on "tonight". What's on TV Tonight? I'm positive the workflow is way longer than it needs to be, but it does work. Max of 4 shows will be shown, but that can be increased.
I know that if you navigate to certain Netflix links in safari, it will offer to open them in the Netflix app. So a watch link (https://www.netflix.com/watch/80018191) will launch right into the episode, and a title link (https://www.netflix.com/title/80018294) will launch directly to the episode list of that title. This is just because Netflix's mobile website redirects to the app. There is no official URL scheme.
This should do it: https://workflow.is/workflows/6cce61345515490e8143766e33b1e4e7
Note that . doesn't match new lines. You need to remove them first with the the \n
I personally use http://rubular.com to test.
Hope that helps.
I recorded the network traffic of the official Nightly News App to get the URL that provides the latest video. This should be possible in other apps as well depending on what shows you need.
You can use Charles on your computer to get a lot of interesting URLs from apps on your phone (or computer), which is by the way the method Workflow uses themselves as you can see in this talk: https://realm.io/news/conrad-kramer-reverse-engineering-ios-apps-lyft/
I'm happy trying to help, if you need anything specific.
It’s definitely possible, I’ve put something together for vultr which has been super handy for work.
Remind me in a couple of days and I’ll get it to a state that makes it shareable.
If you want to do it yourself, have a look at the api documentation on your preferred VPS provide - you’ll need to make use of the Get contents of URL action.
The first half is pretty simple. You have it Get Network Details and the WiFi network name. If it’s empty, you do your cellular actions, if it isn’t you do your WiFi ones.
The second half of that is much harder. There’s an API from SpeedOf.me that you could probably use, but it’s $5/month.
It does matter if your variable has spaces - and you can use URL Encoding to overcome this.
You need to use an X-Callback URL to bring you back to workflow after adding each task - I'm not familiar with 2Do but there is documentation for it :)
At least for Workflow, Get Contents of URL is the same as curl on the command line.
I wrote up this piece in the Workflow Documentation when I was learning how to use Dark Sky's API by pointing at their webhook location and calling the URL: https://workflow.is/docs/taking-advantage-of-web-apis
Zapier's webhooks documentation might help too https://zapier.com/help/webhooks/
My workflow accesses my table, and is unique to my set up...
If you set up an account for free and import the CSV (assuming google sheets lets you export as CSV) then you can see your own API for your table at https://airtable.com/api
This will also show you which URL to call to etc.
Put this into a Get contents of URL action and just examine the dictionary output - go from there.
Maybe this IFTTT recipe will help you figure something out. It uses Heck Yes Markdown to process a webpage with its 'reader' and save the new HTML to Dropbox. https://ifttt.com/recipes/141207-archive-new-bookmarks-as-markdown
Hey - To my knowledge, at this time, I don't think it's possible to integrate IFTTT and Workflow yet. However, based on my little knowledge about WeMo, I think it might be possible to do your recipe via IFTTT. Browse these recipes for ideas: https://ifttt.com/connect/ios_location/wemo_switch
Forewarning: not hands free. (I know, sad)
This one plays something off your phone until you click the notification to open Spotify, though.
I've switched over to just using Sleep Cycle Alarm Clock because my internet is a bit too spotty to be relied upon.
Do you want this to happen automatically somehow? Or, are you planning to interact with it?
If you plan to interact with it and have gmail, one option is to have IFTTT notify you when an email arrives. Tapping the notification could launch a workflow. For example:
- iOS: Run a Workflow when an email arrives 📬
- https://ifttt.com/applets/CsADNVwv
The workflow could prompt you for whatever’s needed to create a calendar entry.
You can trigger Workflows from IFTTT using notifications. Two examples:
- iOS: Run a Workflow when an email arrives 📬
iOS Sample: Trigger a Workflow using a Rich Notification
It is not like a struct, which could be why youre having some issues. It's JSON-serialized data, so you're creating/parsing key-value pairs.
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/an-introduction-to-json
I made a workflow that reads some data and assigns key-value pairs then prints the requested dictionary as text : https://imgur.com/a/qIqYJ
In the first screen I just made a text box with some json-formatted data. In the second screenshot I used the dictionary workflow instead, since that workflow takes the key-value pairs you enter and serializes it for you.
If you just want to create an array, then dictionary is the wrong tool. You should use list
One thing that is worth noting that there is no official way to do this, but someone could make it. You can share workflows as files, and you can convert those files to XML. You can revert this process to create a workflow, so someone could definitely make software that makes workflows.
I just tested it using what I found here and I was able to edit a workflow I had as a text file on my computer. I then converted it back, sent it to my phone, and it was edited. So yes, you technically could make workflows on your computer. Now we just need one guy to do it. They could technically create more abstractions, new functions, etc.
So lets say you want to make a loop that only continues while something is TRUE, you could write that in the workflow app but it would be hell. Now lets say someone on the computer makes a script that basically creates this loop for you, so you just get a new function and can use it really easily and the script turns it into a really long workflow that works the way you want it.
You need to set up an applet to append to your Google sheet in question, and then link the applet to the workflow, and the workflow to the applet within both apps
Here's a rough draft of what your IFTTT applet should look like, if that's where you're struggling: https://ifttt.com/applets/459876p-append-to-google-docs
What are you studying and what does it entail? i.e. What are your requirements? I am a student too, but most of my workflows are for travel logistics, self-improvement, and streamlined social media. Workflow aside, the Do app made by IFTTT (https://ifttt.com/products) is free and I use that for classes — I swipe left until the name of the class comes up, take a photo of a board or page and it will upload it to my Evernote notebook for that class.
But yeah, I also purchased workflow fairly recently and am looking for some good applications of its awesomeness too! :)
I didn't get it to work with Excel or Numbers - but i did rig up something that will add a row to Google Sheets using IFTTT.
The workflow is here
- You will need to edit the workflow to change the names of the people
- Use the public IFTTT recipe
Anyway! Check it out let me know if you need any help with it :)
It's working for me. Could you answer some questions for me to help me identify the issue?:
- Could you tell me what app(s) you're trying that it's not working for?
- Also, have you entered your AppShopper username and password correctly?
- What 2 letter country code and country are you using?
- What version of Workflow do you have?
- What version of iOS do you have?
Are you sending the sheet to Ulysses for formatting purposes? Or just as the intermediary to Wordpress? Workflow can integrate directly with the Wordpress app which may do what you want.
If you do require Ulysses you won’t be able to automate the complete workflow - here are their docs which covers what you can do.
I think this could work.
https://workflow.is/workflows/2ade4b2fa1b246229e9dad7c9d22d168
But a suggestion if he is writing tell him to buy Ulysses, he will be grateful when try it, because of Markdown which makes your writing easier, and more beautiful with templates, themes and multiple options of sharing, like DOCX, PDF, Wordpress, Text, Medium, Markdown, and surely more in the future, so take a look to the app and the blog.
A bit orthogonal, but have you tried using things like SleepCycle Alarm Clock? If things like that still don't work, are you sure you're sleeping [well] enough?
Have you tried Stamp? It works on both iOS and Andy. If you ever feel like trying out a different platform, Stamp allows transferring music between them all:) https://freeyourmusic.com
TuneIn, man. Love ‘em, hate ‘em. I’ve futzed with their URLs before. Used to be you could just use something like tunein://?guideid=s17055. I cant get that to work anymore. Oh, sure, they’re fine with opening their app with a URL. But I don’t think they’re so keen on you skipping all their nice adverts and just going straight to the stream.
I’m curious if there’s a URL scheme that works, but I’m guessing they’d break it soon. OTOH, most radio stations have their own streaming URLs, so you can skip TuneIn entirely. Take a look at this page for VPR: http://digital.vpr.net/online-streams
Edit: Just stumbled on this, but TuneIn’s documentation for broadcasters says you can add autoplay to your URL, like this:
https://tunein.com/embed/player/s17055?autoplay=true
It didn’t work for me, though. I get a non-functional player, just like your original link. But if you’ve got a functioning player, maybe it will work.
Hello,
Thank you for your reply.
I tried your solution and it did not work.
My workflow is:
https://imgur.com/a/8oSx9V0
The URL used was https://www.deepl.com/translator
When I run the workflow, the URL opens but the content of the clipboard is not pasted.
Thanks again very much for taking the time to prepare the link and looking into my question.
I think there's a way to do it.
You can easily craft and dispatch email messages from Workflow; even ones with embedded x-callback URLs.
Send a message to your account in Pushover (https://pushover.net/) and you'll have notifications that integrate with any app including Workflow.
I haven't tried this, but I think it will work.
Note - I'm pretty sure it wont work [well] with Boxcar because it lacks one key feature that Pushover has - the ability to instrument notifications that auto launch the first URL in the message upon tapping the notification.
Yes. You could do this. Check out the API documentation here. Use the "count" parameter to return the number of items you wish. And use the "tag_name" parameter to search a specific tag only.
This is my first Workflow from scratch. I use the Brave browser for privacy and ad-blocking, so I made this to Workflow to open URLs Brave from the share sheet.
If you've never heard of Brave, definitely check it out: Brave
Here's an App Store link: Brave Browser on iOS
Not sure how much to read into this, but Panic support seems to indicate that x-callback-url is coming or at least not ruled out.
This is probably all you need: https://workflow.is/workflows/2f89abc0a57640d6af5b609d541baabd
I use this site to try them out before pasting into workflow as it allows me to see the results in realtime. http://rubular.com
Also the Pythonista URL Scheme Documentation might be useful to refer to for more complex scripts, such as ones that you need to pass arguments to.
If you use Gmail and have received all the receipts at that email address then you can use the following Google Script to extract all your purchases from your emails:
Run it by hitting the Play button. It logs the results to the console which you can access via View → Logs. Note the script assumes that your currency is $. If it isn't then you will need to update the regex.
If you wanted to take it a further step you could split out each of the items and make it log the results to a Google Spreadsheet (but I was lazy).
The URL encoding for filterByFormula can be kind of tricky. This tool might help: https://codepen.io/airtable/full/rLKkYB
Also, does the formula you're using work if you create a formula field in the table and paste it directly there?
A downvote? Really?!
Go look at http://www.notebooksapp.com/notebooks-url-schemes/
Also, as Notebooks syncs with Dropbox in a direct, non-opaque manner, any tool that can read and write Dropbox files can effectively interface with Notebooks.
You don't mention what email provider you use, however, if it's Gmail and all you want to do is forward email from a specific address, you can just setup a filter to automatically forward email that matches the search parameters you specify to another address.
If you use another email provider, maybe try to login to their web client to see if they provide an auto-forwarding option.
Other possible options you could look into for this include IFTTT and Zapier.
One approach - create an RSS feed from the DropBox folder using Zapier.
https://zapier.com/zapbook/dropbox/rss/3522/create-rss-feed-of-dropbox-files/
The feed is read by the Workflow to count the number of files.