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9: Scriptable with Simon Støvring

Automators

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Scriptable API

scriptable is an API that's meant for people sharing scripts. It was one of the more requested APIs as people started to share their own scripts they would have to remove API keys and credentials from the scripts before sharing them but by putting them into the keychain and using the keychain inside of the script you can basically you can just share the script where it's fetching those credentials from the keychain. Another example where it runs deeper is like the device information. You can get device information with Siri shortcuts but you can't get information like is it charging or not or is it face up or face down. The whole point of this stuff I think is making this programming stuff useful and allowing

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