Apple Shortcuts for Micro.blog

jarrod · March 7, 2024, 11:42pm

Hey there! I’ve been building up an arsenal of Apple Shortcuts that I’ve made to work with Micro.blog, and thought it might be good to post them here for folks to find and use.

I’m open to suggestions if you see areas for improvement! And I’ll do my best to keep this post updated as I publish more of them.

These shortcuts are part of my HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Bulk MB Image Uploader
Upload a bunch of images to Micro.blog at once.

Count Characters for Micro.blog Timeline
Count the number of rich text characters in a post so it can be edited to be within the Timeline’s limit.

Generate Alt Text with OpenAI Vision
Automatically generate an image description using OpenAI’s GPT4.

MB Photoblogger
Set up and post your daily photo for the Micro.blog Community Photoblogging Challenge.

Micro.blog Multimedia Uploader
Upload any file to Micro.blog and format it for your blog post.

Open Micro.blog Reply
Open the full conversation for a reply on Micro.blog from its URL.

Publish Quote
Publish a selected blockquote, with or without commentary, to Micro.blog.

Publish to Micro.blog
Publish text to your Micro.blog without any frills.

UpShare MB
Easily share any file online using Micro.blog uploads.

If you get a lot of value out of these shortcuts, my tip jar is open!

jarrod · March 13, 2024, 9:54am

I just updated my ‘Publish to Micro.blog’ shortcut to version 1.1:

Added a setup step to specify your microblog’s ID number so that posts always get sent to the right blog. (Handy if you accidentally leave Micro.blog set to one of your other blogs.) If left blank, it will default to the last blog you used on your account.

Added a fallback if no input is passed to the shortcut. It will show your clipboard contents and allow you to edit them and continue or cancel.

Get it from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.
Jarrod Blundy https://jb.heydingus.net/2024/03/13/i-just-updated.html

jarrod · March 15, 2024, 6:53pm

I just updated my ‘Bulk MB Image Uploader Shortcut’ shortcut to version 1.2:

Added setup step to specify which blog the images should be uploaded to. If left blank, it will default to the last used blog on your account.

Added a blank line so that the list of images has some separation (for @pratik 😉)

Get it from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.
Jarrod Blundy https://jb.heydingus.net/2024/03/15/i-just-updated.html

jarrod · March 18, 2024, 12:13am

I just updated my ‘Micro.blog Multimedia Uploader ’ shortcut to version 1.1:

Added a setting to always upload to a particular site (if you have multiple ones) instead of just the most recently used site

Bug fixes (thanks @pratik!)

Get it from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.
Jarrod Blundy https://jb.heydingus.net/2024/03/17/i-just-updated.html

jarrod · March 19, 2024, 4:23am

I just updated my ‘Bulk MB Image Uploader’ shortcut to version 1.3:

Fixed a mistake related to setting a blog destination (now it uses your Micro.blog subdomain, not the numeric site ID) (Thanks @manton!)

Get it from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.
Jarrod Blundy https://jb.heydingus.net/2024/03/19/i-just-updated.html

jarrod · March 19, 2024, 4:36am

I just updated my ‘UpShare MB’ shortcut to version 1.1:

Added an option to set a persistent upload destination in case you have multiple sites with Micro.blog. Just add your Micro.blog subdomain (i.e. https://jarrod.micro.blog) in the ‘Setup Stuff’ to always upload to a particular site. If left blank, it will default to uploading to the last site you used on Micro.blog.

General spit and polish

Get it from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.
Jarrod Blundy https://jb.heydingus.net/2024/03/19/003402.html

jarrod · March 19, 2024, 4:47am

I just updated my ‘Publish to Micro.blog’ shortcut to version 1.2:

Fixed a mistake related to setting a persistent blog destination (now it uses your Micro.blog subdomain, not the numeric site ID) (Thanks @manton!)

Get it from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.
Jarrod Blundy https://jb.heydingus.net/2024/03/19/004623.html

jarrod · March 19, 2024, 5:00am

I just updated my ‘Micro.blog Multimedia Uploader’ shortcut to version 1.1.1:

Fixed a mistake related to setting a persistent blog destination (now it uses your Micro.blog subdomain, not the numeric site ID)

Get it from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.
Jarrod Blundy https://jb.heydingus.net/2024/03/19/005943.html

jarrod · April 2, 2024, 3:27am

I just released my ‘MB Photoblogger’ shortcut version 1.0:

This shortcut helps you post to Micro.blog for its Community Photoblogging Challenge. It handles everything from setting up the text of the post following a consistent format, to selecting and uploading a photo and publishing it to your blog.

Get it from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.
Jarrod Blundy https://jb.heydingus.net/2024/04/01/i-just-released.html

jarrod · April 4, 2024, 3:08am

I just updated my ‘MB Photoblogger’ shortcut to version 1.1:

Added the ability to share a photo to the shortcut via the share sheet in case you already found the perfect image for the day’s prompt

Get it from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.
Jarrod Blundy https://jb.heydingus.net/2024/04/03/i-just-updated.html

jarrod · April 4, 2024, 9:28pm

I just updated my ‘📢 Publish Quote’ shortcut to version 2.0:

Now you copy the quote before sharing its URL, meaning the shortcut is far more flexible and can be run from anywhere (like RSS reader apps!), not just Safari

This is a massive update with a bunch of new niceties, like options to include author attribution, saving copies of each post to Drafts, and much more.

Get it from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.
Jarrod Blundy https://jb.heydingus.net/2024/04/04/i-just-updated.html

jarrod · April 11, 2024, 6:55pm

Let’s try this again! I just updated my ‘📣 Publish Quote’ shortcut to version 2.1:

Fixed a couple of bugs related to variables incorrectly converting between text and URLs (thanks @pratik and @ericmwalk!)

Cleaned up the final actions by reusing the text-to-publish variable so it’s more clear what’s getting updated and shared

Vastly simplified formatting the source’s hyperlink during setup

Fixed a bug regarding checking for the user’s preference for including the author’s name and checking if it’s being run on a Mac make sure the author-name variable is passed along correctly

Jarrod Blundy https://jb.heydingus.net/2024/04/11/lets-try-this.html

jarrod · April 12, 2024, 6:31am

I just released my ‘🤣 Markdown Memes’ shortcut version 1.0:

This shortcut helps you to reuse memes saved as Markdown without having to re-upload the image to your Micro.blog account (or wherever you store your image files) or re-write the alt text over and over again. It presents a list of memes saved to a text file for you to choose from, or allows you to upload a new one and save it to that same text file.

Some niceties:

Auto-setup to create and update the necessary text file

Auto-sorting to put your most used memes at the top of the list

Get it from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.
Jarrod Blundy https://jb.heydingus.net/2024/04/12/i-just-released.html

(Hey @manton or @jean, I can’t seem to edit the original post here to add this one to the list. Is there a time limit on how long/often a post can be edited in the Help Center?)

jarrod · April 13, 2024, 8:07am

I just released my ‘Simple MB Image Uploader’ shortcut version 1.0:

No frills or menus to tap through. Just get an image into the shortcut and it spits out Markdown. Works great when run as a function from other shortcuts, like when building a blog post with an image, since it requires minimal interaction.

Get it from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.
Jarrod Blundy https://jb.heydingus.net/2024/04/13/i-just-released.html

jarrod · April 13, 2024, 8:32am

I just updated my ‘🤣 Markdown Memes’ shortcut to version 1.1:

Swapped ‘Micro.blog Multimedia Uploader’ shortcut for ‘Simple MB Image Uploader’ so there would be fewer menus and interactions to get through

Added an opportunity to edit the Markdown’s alt text before it’s saved

Clarified some menu text

Get it for free from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.
Jarrod Blundy https://jb.heydingus.net/2024/04/13/i-just-updated.html

jarrod · August 20, 2024, 10:47pm

🚨 New shortcut alert!

If you’re like me, you sometimes struggle to fit your witty and very cool social media post within the character limit. It can be a fun game to trim it down, but sometimes it’s a hassle. For those tough times, here’s Rewrite Shorter, powered by ChatGPT and Shortcuts.
Jarrod Blundy https://jb.heydingus.net/2024/08/18/new-shortcut-alert.html

tylerknowsnothing · August 21, 2024, 3:27am

It’s serendipitous that I saw these pop up today. Earlier is cobbled together, as best I could, a shortcut that takes a YouTube video ID in the clipboard, and sticks it into a correctly formatted Hugo shortcode, then back into the clipboard to be pasted into a post I can only do basic stuff like this, though.

It just sits in my menubar for when I need it Thanks for many new scripts I’ll likely be employing here shortly!