RoutinePub

Publish your Shortcuts to RoutineHub directly from your iOS device.

Description

Introducing RoutinePub

Publish your iOS shortcuts to RoutineHub directly from the Shortcuts app using RoutinePub, and distribute future updates through UpdateKit.

RoutinePub was created in conjunction with RoutineHub and is an officially supported method of submitting your shortcuts.

How It Works

RoutinePub allows you to publish new versions of your RoutineHub shortcuts without leaving the Shortcuts app on your iOS device. First, you'll need to create a new Shortcut on the RoutinePub website and set it to Published. Don't worry about adding a version right now — we'll do that in a second. For now, just click "Continue in RoutinePub" to see your shortcut's ID.

Now all you need is the API Key listed on your RoutineHub account settings page and you're ready to go!

Once you've installed RoutinePub, you'll be prompted to add your API Key to the shortcut. If Shortcuts crashes before asking this question (it happens!) just edit the RoutinePub shortcut, tap the Settings button (two switches in the upper-right corner, just under Done) and tap "Customize Shortcut…" to enter your key.

After entering your API Key, you're all setup!

When you're ready to publish a new version of your shortcut, open it in the editor inside the Shortcuts app and hit the Share button. Select Shortcuts » RoutinePub from the share menu and you're off!

RoutinePub will fetch a list of shortcuts on your RoutineHub user account and present you with the list. Select the one you want to update, follow the prompts to enter a new version number and some notes about what's new. That's it! You're done!

Your new shortcut will now be available from the RoutineHub website.

Delivering Updates to Users

If you want users of your shortcut to be able to get the latest version automatically, you can integrate UpdateKit into your shortcut. UpdateKit is an easy way to deliver shortcut updates to your users.

You can find out more by visting the UpdateKit website and browsing the documentation. Starting with UpdateKit 2.0, you can even skip some of the UpdateKit setup by simply providing your shortcut's ID number on RoutineHub. Check out the RoutineHub Integration section of the documentation for more information.

Latest Release Notes

5.0 - Dec. 24, 2019, 7:23 p.m.

RoutinePub 5.0 is a complete overhaul focused on speed and simplicity

RoutinePub has been rewritten from scratch. This takes it from 535 actions to 245.

Most of the functionality you know is still there, but there are some important changes.

Publishing shortcut updates is now done entirely via the main menu. To publish an update, run RoutinePub and select “Publish Update” from main menu. Select a shortcut from your library to continue.

This removes the ability to use the share sheet from a shortcut to upload it to RoutinePub. This is for several reasons.

1. The share sheet method requires RoutinePub to “show” while running. Showing shortcuts in the editor is very expensive from a performance perspective. It can lead complex shortcuts to crash. The previous version of RoutinePub integrated the functionality of the AirBag shortcut to protect against this. With RoutinePub 5.0, even that is no longer necessary as the shortcut never runs via the editor.

2. The new method enables you to publish multiple shortcuts at once. Unlike the old method, you may now select multiple shortcuts from the main menu and they will each be released one after the other. You will be able to specify version numbers and release notes for each one separately.

3. This new method allows RoutinePub to get the name of the shortcut you are uploading without having to download that data from the iCloud API. Previously when submitting only the URL, RoutinePub had to get the name of the shortcut from iCloud to handle the “Associations” functionality. Now it can read the name of the shortcut you select from the list directly, which speeds up the process and requires no new network calls.

In order to support multiple updates at once, the option to open a share sheet after publishing an update has been removed. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Updating RoutinePub is now handled via the main menu rather than when it runs. In the event that server-side changes necessitate and update for RoutinePub to keep working, you’ll be able to use the main menu to get the update.

Shortcut associations are no longer managed as much through the main menu. While you can select and delete multiple associations from the main menu (with multiple selections at a time being a new feature) you cannot add new associations from the main menu. While this feature could possibly return at a later time, currently there is no need for it, as any necessary associations can simply be added when you are submitting an update.

Past versions

Feedback

@medicalshortcuts

This is awesome! Just got to give it a shot for the first time and it works perfectly! Awesome job!
Reply · 1 year, 9 months ago

@Josh0678

I like this shortcut, I can update my shortcuts here and it’s super fast and easy! :)
Reply · 1 year, 9 months ago

@haty1

When trying to associate a shortcut for the first time the shortcut does not display a list of shortcuts to associate the shortcut to
Reply · 1 year, 7 months ago

@MikeBeas Author

You don’t have any shortcuts on your account.
Reply · 1 year, 7 months ago

@haty1

just trying to associate some shortcuts I got from Routinehub so that I can use the UpdateKit
Reply · 1 year, 7 months ago

@MikeBeas Author

This feature has nothing to do with that. The association feature is for people who are publishing shortcuts. If you aren’t making and publishing shortcuts to RoutineHub, you don’t need RoutinePub. You only have to have UpdateKit installed to get updates.
Reply · 1 year, 7 months ago

@AShortcuts Member

How did you integrate Airbag into the Shortcut?
Reply · 1 year, 6 months ago

@MikeBeas Author

i used a “function” run to see if the shortcut was running in airbag mode, and if not, run it in airbag mode. it’s sort of complicated to explain. if you know how to use a shortcut to run itself with different input to trigger a different function then you’ll have an idea but if you don’t know how that works i would not be able to explain it here.
Reply · 1 year, 6 months ago

@AShortcuts Member

Can you make a shortcut with airbag integrated in it as an example.
Reply · 1 year, 6 months ago

@MikeBeas Author

if you’re just looking for the functionality of airbag in your shortcut i really recommend just using the standard airbag implementation. if you want to see how routinepub does it you can look inside routinepub and it’s there.
Reply · 1 year, 6 months ago

@iMadScience

What is airbag? Sounds interesting.
Reply · 1 year, 3 months ago

@MikeBeas Author

it’s a shortcut on my profile
Reply · 1 year, 3 months ago

@iMadScience

Whoa OK! Great idea! Are you the creator of RoutineHub? Is RoutinePub an official shortcut for RoutineHub? Cause we've been using them from the beginning and it's very convenient.
Reply · 1 year, 3 months ago

@MikeBeas Author

I am not the creator of RoutineHub but I worked closely with him to design the initial API and this shortcut. It is “official” in that regard, yes.
Reply · 1 year, 3 months ago

@iMadScience

Yeah! Knew it!
Reply · 1 year, 3 months ago

@PatCollins

Says I’m running an outdated version? Deleted and re-added and same thing.
Reply · 1 year, 6 months ago

@MikeBeas Author

outdated version of updatekit or routinepub?
Reply · 1 year, 6 months ago

@PatCollins

Routinepub
Reply · 1 year, 6 months ago

@PatCollins

Restarted my phone and it’s good now. Weird.
Reply · 1 year, 6 months ago

@MikeBeas Author

super weird! but shortcuts is buggy sometimes.
Reply · 1 year, 6 months ago

@mtrevino57

currently not able to publish NEW shortcuts, only update existing ones. Did I miss installing something? version is 3.3 of RoutinePub
Reply · 1 year, 6 months ago

@MikeBeas Author

No. That’s the correct behavior. You have to create the listing on the web and then you can use RoutinePub to submit a version of it.
Reply · 1 year, 6 months ago

@yottalogical

You create the Shortcut on the RoutineHub website, then instead of creating your first version on the website, you tap/click "Continue with RoutinePub". From there you can publish the first version of your Shortcut via RoutinePub.
Reply · 1 year, 3 months ago

@mtrevino57

Thanks! I will give it another shot!
Reply · 1 year, 3 months ago

@Robnor1

Can you publish new shortcuts using this?
Reply · 1 year, 5 months ago

@MikeBeas Author

Not currently. There is no API for that in RoutineHub yet.
Reply · 1 year, 5 months ago

@yottalogical

@@michaelthompson1991

Comes up with the operation could not be completed, tried deleting and re-downloading but same problem, any ideas?
Reply · 1 year, 4 months ago

@MikeBeas Author

please see this thread https://twitter.com/updatekit/status/1106837976078868481?s=21
Reply · 1 year, 4 months ago

@iMadScience

The power of Shortcut community. It turned so much smoother after having RoutineHub, RoutinePub, and UpdateKit together, delivering a complete Shortcut ecosystem.
Reply · 1 year, 3 months ago

@yottalogical

I didn’t know where to ask this, but this seemed like the best place: Is there a reason you haven’t published UpdateKit onto RoutineHub?
Reply · 1 year, 2 months ago

@MikeBeas Author

A number of reasons. UpdateKit didn’t always support RoutineHub, so it had to be published somewhere else to begin with. I did consider migrating but I prefer control over the environment where it lives. I have that whole documentation website that I maintain and I also previously had some features that checked my server when UpdateKit ran to see if there were any known issues to warn people about at run.
Reply · 1 year, 2 months ago

@MikeBeas Author

Migrating now would be a challenge. I’d either have to maintain two copies of UpdateKit, one for each host, or transaction the main copy to here. That means pushing an update from my server that includes the RoutineHub ID. But then if someone doesn’t update in a timely manner and I remove the update data from my server, assuming everyone will just come here instead, then their update checks will break and they’ll never know to migrate. So for me it’s just better to leave things as they are.
Reply · 1 year, 2 months ago

@Bentmperez

When trying to release a shortcut with LightningUpdate I get an error that it can't read the value from dictionary...what can I do to fix this (if even possible)?
Reply · 1 year, 1 month ago

@MikeBeas Author

do you have a period in your shortcut’s name?
Reply · 1 year, 1 month ago

@Bentmperez

Do I do not...do I have to have one? If yes where?
Reply · 1 year, 1 month ago

@MikeBeas Author

No, there is an issue where that error can be caused by it because of a change Apple made. I do not know what could be causing it in your case. That is the only cause I’ve heard of so far.
Reply · 1 year, 1 month ago

@user1283376363658483847474

Good shortcut but it only allows me to update shortcuts not publish them :(
Reply · 10 months, 2 weeks ago

@MikeBeas Author

RoutineHub’s API does not support the creation of new shortcuts at this time.
Reply · 10 months, 2 weeks ago

@user1283376363658483847474

Then why did you say in the name at the tip publish shortcuts to routinehub?
Reply · 10 months, 2 weeks ago

@MikeBeas Author

You are publishing a shortcut when you publish an update. It does not say you can create new listings.
Reply · 10 months, 2 weeks ago

@user1283376363658483847474

Can you add creating new listings in update
Reply · 10 months, 2 weeks ago

@MikeBeas Author

I cannot because RoutineHub’s API does not support the creation of new listings.
Reply · 10 months, 2 weeks ago

@user1283376363658483847474

By the way I love your shortcut UpdateKit. It’s an awesome way to update my shortcuts. :)
Reply · 10 months, 2 weeks ago

@MikeBeas Author

thanks!
Reply · 10 months, 2 weeks ago

@Reuben1

iOS 12???????
Reply · 10 months, 2 weeks ago

@MikeBeas Author

Download the previous version from the version history page. 3.x is the last iOS 12 version.
Reply · 10 months, 2 weeks ago

@Reuben1

It is outdated when I run it on iOS 12
Reply · 10 months, 2 weeks ago

@MikeBeas Author

The latest version requires iOS 13. If you cannot run iOS 13 you must stay on RoutineHub 3.
Reply · 10 months, 2 weeks ago

@BuzzTheGamer23

You can use the get links from file action to create an icloud link if you input a shortcut into it. You can do all the RountinePub stuff to make it where you can update a shortcut without having to insert a link. Example: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/4db74cc20ccb4e83a40d5f6179b04506. This feature is also used in Copy and Paste a Shortcut (https://routinehub.co/shortcut/4118)
Reply · 7 months, 2 weeks ago

@MikeBeas Author

that’s certainly an interesting method, i’ve used it in some of my personal shortcuts. it feels like a bit of a hack though. currently it adds .shortcut to the end of the shortcut name so it would cause problems with files that were downloaded from routinepub, because they would download with that appended to the end and not properly overwrite previous versions. i’m not 100% sure how they would work out. it also seems to be failing with “failed to modify some records” now. a bit unreliable.
Reply · 7 months, 2 weeks ago

@BuzzTheGamer23

I just tested it, and it didn’t add .shortcut. It only does that if you rename it with .shortcut at the end and forget to turn on “don’t include file extension”. And where does it say “failed to modify some records” when using it?
Reply · 7 months, 2 weeks ago

@MikeBeas Author

you’re right, looks like it only adds the extension of you select from icloud drive. the error i was getting was a popup when running the Get Link option. it’s not doing it now but i tried a bunch of times before and it happened every time.
Reply · 7 months, 2 weeks ago

@MikeBeas Author

i’ll certainly consider adding it!
Reply · 7 months, 2 weeks ago

@BuzzTheGamer23

Ok! https://is.gd/thumbsupemoji
Reply · 7 months, 2 weeks ago

@MikeBeas Author

I just added to version 4.2! Thanks for the idea!
Reply · 7 months, 2 weeks ago

@BuzzTheGamer23

You’re welcome!
Reply · 7 months, 2 weeks ago

@Mbierman

Running latest version...updating a shortcut never completed. So I opened RoutinePub to run it so I could see where it stopped and and it crashes.
Reply · 7 months, 1 week ago

@MikeBeas Author

i just tried it and it worked fine. what is the last step you get through before it crashes?
Reply · 7 months, 1 week ago

@Mbierman

1. Run RoutinePub. 2. Enter key. 3. Choose update. 4. Choose the shortcut. Result: update never completes Then... 1. Open RoutinePub. 2. Run RoutinePub. 3. Enter key. 4. Choose update. 5. Choose the shortcut. Result: Shortcuts crashes.
Reply · 7 months, 1 week ago

@MikeBeas Author

sounds like it’s probably failing while creating a link to the shortcut. unfortunately that’s an apple problem i can’t fix. it’s been happening on and off for a few days.
Reply · 7 months, 1 week ago

@Mbierman

Why not put in a check if the URL isn't created, issue a warning to the user and exit?
Reply · 7 months, 1 week ago

@MikeBeas Author

It would never reach the check. It’s not crashing because the action puts out an empty link. The action that creates the link is the problem. This is impossible for me to address, believe me.
Reply · 7 months, 1 week ago

@Mbierman

Gotcha. Unfortunate.
Reply · 7 months, 1 week ago

@daidardi

Me too.. the last version (5.0) doesn’t work And you blocked the using of previous :/ I’m publishing update on browser :/
Reply · 7 months, 1 week ago

@MikeBeas Author

This version is working fine for me. If you’re having a problem generating a link for a shortcut that is an Apple problem and it affects all methods of getting a link. Several days ago when I was working on 5.0 I was seeing an error while getting the link. I tried using the old share method to get a link and the same thing happened because it is a problem on Apple’s side.
Reply · 7 months, 1 week ago

@daidardi

And so how can I solve?
Reply · 7 months, 1 week ago

@MikeBeas Author

Since you haven’t described the problem I’m assuming it’s hanging on the Get Link step? There is no solution until Apple solves it. That is their problem.
Reply · 7 months, 1 week ago

@daidardi

It can be an idea letting using past version..
Reply · 7 months, 1 week ago

@MikeBeas Author

not possible. it would require me to download the old version, make changes to it, and publish it as an update that most people won’t get because of 5.0. it is not a simple thing to change. i’m sorry you’re having an issue with getting icloud links but unfortunately this is not something widespread, it seems to be specific to you, and so it is difficult or impossible for me to diagnose and fix it.
Reply · 7 months, 1 week ago

@MikeBeas Author

go away spammer
Reply · 7 months, 1 week ago

@eaic

Nice.
Reply · 2 months, 2 weeks ago

@JPOD

Worked like a charm and updated my shortcuts perfectly. Thank you for this shortcut.
Reply · 1 month ago