RoutineHub • Run JavaScript on Web Page

Run JavaScript on Web Page

An extended “Run JavaScript on Web Page” not only limited to Safari Web Pages

Description

This Action aims to provide a better “Run JavaScript on Web Page” than the one provided by Apple (as of iOS 16.6)

With this action, running a JavaScript on a Web Page is no longer limited to a Web Page necessarily clicked through Share, you can specify a URL, HTTP methods and headers and more !

Although the evolution seems minor it opens up multiplied possibilities, I will post later a full featured user Action making uses of it, which as nothing to envy to similar apps sold on the App Store.

This Action serves as a Library for other actions.

See the Tests for usages. (TODO: options documentation)

To modify, debug, enable devMode and change the various options.

Tests :

Run it with the Safari share button
Run JavaScript on Web Page Test [ js ] executes a JavaScript alone
Run JavaScript on Web Page Test [ js+url ] executes a CSS selector on source content from url
Run JavaScript on Web Page Test [ headers ] executes a CSS selector on source content from url with custom HTTP headers
Run JavaScript on Web Page Test [ json ] executes a JSON selector on source content from url with Dictionary as root element
Run JavaScript on Web Page Test [ json2 ] executes a JSON selector on source content from url with List as root element
Run JavaScript on Web Page Test [ xml ] executes a XPATH selector on source content from url
Run JavaScript on Web Page Test [ url ] prompts for a CSS selector
Run JavaScript on Web Page Test [ html ] executes a CSS selector on source content provided by user
Run JavaScript on Web Page Test [ js exec error ] test a JavaScript error
Run JavaScript on Web Page Test [ js syntax error ] test a JavaScript typo
Run JavaScript on Web Page Test [ domain failure ] test a bad domain name
Run JavaScript on Web Page Test [ none ] test empty arguments

—-class101 on Steam (or u/mrdovi on reddit)

Latest Release Notes

0.7.1 - Sept. 12, 2023, 11:16 p.m.

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Run JavaScript on Web Page - v0.7.1

See tests for usage(doc will come l8r@routinehub)

Special Thanks:
u/gluebyte (many docs and useful Actions 🙏 )

Most hated internet guy:
FUCK /u/spez
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CHANGELOG
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0.7.1 : add tests for json, xml options
0.7.0 : support JSON and XML raw with JS
0.6.3 : fix Get Content of URL corrupting JSON
0.6.2 : add tests for json, html options
0.6.1 : move empty result warn to devMode
0.6.0 : add JSON contents support
0.5.9 : change JS errors to notifications
0.5.8 : add u/gluebyte 💪 in credits
0.5.7 : add `html` option
0.5.6 : removed the forced stringify, instead,
calling it on `result` on-demand is a
better practice to preserve JS types
by default (ie: if you return [] in JS,
you expect it to be settable as dictionary
value of `:[]` and not `:"[]"` in Shortcut)
0.5.5 : fix default css selector
0.5.4 : detect syntax errors not caught by try
0.5.3 : don’t stringify if obj already string
0.5.2 : add a `nostringify` option, comments
0.5.1 : change default header key
0.5.0 : first public RoutineHub release
0.2.0 : argument to pretty print result JSON
0.1.4 : devmode, performance optimizations
0.1.1 : headers, performance optimizations
0.1.0 : rewrite with variables, debug, fake args
beta1 : reddit PoC

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TODO
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- options doc for routinehub and r/Shortcuts
- x-callback-url support ?
- increase from 5 to 10 customizable headers ?
- support more HTTP methods
- support POSTing datas

Version history

Feedback

@class101 Author

Since 0.5.5 the action also detects JavaScript syntax errors in addition to the execution errors, a test has been added
Reply · 3 months ago

@class101 Author

Since 0.5.6 , call yourself JSON.stringify(result); if you need a result as String. This was a mistake to force it here, this was preventing Shortcut to properly recognize the returned JS types !
Reply · 3 months ago

@class101 Author

Since 0.6.2 the Shortcut has reached 200 actions. This is a lot but they are options, the main functionality remains fast, and since I posted the first proof of concept @ Reddit what I wanted to do is close to be over and stable 👍 I will post soon another amazing Shortcut, super useful, making use of it (300+ actions)
Reply · 2 months, 3 weeks ago

@class101 Author

Found an issue up to 0.6.2 with the action : Get Content of URL, it is not returning the original JSON sent by the HTTP server (know Shortcuts issue it seems) I’m able to work around by setting the JSON content in a Dictionary, and setting the element.textContent of the fake HTML source element to the JSON.stringify result of dic.KEY 🙃 I searched days to work around this Apple issue but I think passing a JSON content in a Dictionary value is the only way to keep the JSON unchanged
Reply · 2 months, 2 weeks ago

@class101 Author

Btw you can verify the previous issue without my shortcuts Just open in Safari and look how the JSON is properly rendered https://plugins.jetbrains.com/api/plugins/7973/updates?channel=&size=2 Now open the same url in a new Shortcut with Get Content of URL and Show Result you will see, notice how Shortcuts removes the brackets [] , and Textual, or JSON syntax it is not more an Array (List) Apple is boring with this
Reply · 2 months, 2 weeks ago

@class101 Author

Edit2: Nope JSON list are still buggy with Set Names, luckily I hav fix Edit: The following seems the only method suitable for raw XML support but I have to experiment a bit more if it is also suitable for JSON. It seems there is a better approach by calling the “Set Name” action immediately after calling “Get Content of URL” and set the name to a file extension ending with “.txt”, it seems to get the RAW content of the page! I could probably do this for better supporting json/xml/raw contents
Reply · 2 months, 2 weeks ago

@class101 Author

All the above included in 0.7.0. It should be now stabler with json and xml contents, especially when the JSON root objet is a List, the brackets are now presents yey thanks JavaScript (see test json2 you can select from a root List 💪🤓 )
Reply · 2 months, 2 weeks ago