Compose Tweet about a website with Shortcuts
The following Javascript snippet composes a Tweet.
- It fetches the title
<meta name="description"of a page. - It does some replacements to mention some twitter profiles.
- It uses the
<meta name="keywords"as a list of hashtags. - It appends the url of the website to the tweet.
function getMeta(metaName) {
var metas = document.getElementsByTagName('meta');
for (let i = 0; i < metas.length; i++) {
if (metas[i].getAttribute('name') === metaName) {
return metas[i].getAttribute('content');
}
}
return '';
}
var tweet = document.title + '. ' + getMeta('description');
const replacements = new Map();
replacements.set('Código Bot', '@codigobotfm');
replacements.set('Micronaut', '@micronautfw');
replacements.set('Grails', '@grailsfw');
for (const [key, value] of replacements) {
tweet = tweet.replace(key, value)
}
tweet += ' #' + getMeta('keywords').replace(',', ' #');
tweet += window.location.href;
Next, create a Shortcut.
A shortcut is a quick way to get one or more tasks done with your apps. The Shortcuts app lets you create your own shortcuts with multiple steps.
It is a simple three step shortcut:
- It accepts Safari web pages
- Run a Javascript snippet. Copy the above snippet. Add a last line of code
completion(tweet); - Open Tweetbot to specified account.
