I often find myself wanting to grab the contents of a tweet in Markdown format to post on my blog, so I’ve created an iOS shortcut that takes the URL to a tweet, grabs the contents via the public Twitter API, expands t.co URLs, and copies the content to the clipboard.
Here’s an example tweet:
It’s surprisingly hard to find a tweet with multiple URLs in it for API response testing purposes.
— Max Masnick (@masnick) December 25, 2019
So here are my two favorite non-Google search engines:
1. https://t.co/jFqkR0eo8x
2. https://t.co/UZD9mmtzEH
👍
And here’s what the output of the Shortcut looks like:
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