![]() The first workflow I’ve built is a straightforward one: given an app’s name as input text, Workflow brings up a series of results, so I can pick one and create an affiliate link (in Markdown) to paste in a text editor. These actions bring the power of an API previously accessible only to people who knew some basics of scripting to everyone thanks to their visual approach. More importantly, Workflow’s new actions allow you to combine results and relevant details with hundreds of other actions and apps. Once you load a list of App Store results, this is what you can access with the new ‘Get Details of App Store App’ action:Īs someone who’s worked with the iTunes API and JSON results before, I can’t stress enough how much these actions simplify the process of looking up iTunes content and reading specific information. The Workflow team have outdone themselves with a powerful set of actions that enable users to parse details of apps and iTunes products without having to know a single line of code. Search actions by themselves, though, are only part of the story: you’ll have to combine them with their respective ‘Get Details’ actions to extract specific information from results to use in other actions and variables. The iTunes and App Store actions provide an interface for the iTunes Search API that I used to access via Python until Workflow 1.5. Working with App Store results in Workflow 1.5. I’ve mostly played with the Search App Store action to automate app-related tasks for MacStories. Similarly, the ‘Search iTunes Store’ action lets you look up iTunes Store products, replacing Platform with Category for music, movies, podcasts, and every other product type available on iTunes. ![]() The most important action is ‘Search App Store’, which lets you look for apps on the iOS and Mac App Store with four different parameters: a keyword for the app’s name search by product ID, developer, or “all” platform (iPhone, iPad, Mac) and country. This is one of my new favorite additions to the app as it has allowed me to automate a large part of what I do for new app releases and updates. ![]() One of the highlights of Workflow 1.5 is the ability to search for content on the App Store and iTunes Store, fetch results, and get rich details that can be combined with other actions. With a bigger team and more Club responsibilities, we’ve been thinking about how to improve our shared tasks and creative process Workflow 1.5 has played an essential role in it. ![]() Workflow 1.5 is a packed release that is going to save heavy Workflow users a lot of time.Īfter testing and playing with Workflow 1.5 for the past month, I’ve been able to streamline key aspects of writing for MacStories and managing Club MacStories. Some of them are new app actions based on URL schemes, while others introduce brand new system integrations (such as iTunes Store, App Store, and Safari View Controller) and web actions for the popular Trello team collaboration service. Unsurprisingly for the Workflow team, this release adds over 20 new actions and dozens of improvements. Nearly two years (and an Apple Design Award) later, Workflow is reaching version 1.5 today, an important milestone towards the road to 2.0. Pythonista, Editorial, and Tweetbot are in that list, but Workflow, with its ongoing improvements and deep iOS integrations, continuously makes me question how I can optimize my setup further. In seven years of MacStories, few iOS apps fundamentally changed how I get work done as much as Workflow.
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