{"id":20515,"date":"2020-03-07T15:44:36","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T23:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/?p=20515"},"modified":"2020-03-07T15:44:36","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T23:44:36","slug":"ccatp-628","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/ccatp-628\/","title":{"rendered":"CCATP #628 \u2014 Bart Busschots on Creating Automator Quick Actions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week our guest is Bart Busschots with an installment of something he&#8217;s calling Programming By Stealth-adjacent.  It&#8217;s not part of the regular series of Programming By Stealth, and yet it&#8217;s not technically very &#8220;light&#8221; in terms of the chit chatting.  Since neither podcast is the right place for it, I&#8217;ve decided to put it in both podcast feeds to be wrong twice.<\/p>\n<p>Bart walks us through how to create Quick Actions with Automator (also known as Services) to do some simple but very useful text manipulations using a smidge of JavaScript.  Even if you don&#8217;t want to write these Quick Actions yourself, you can download his services from his Github repo where he&#8217;s put them up as open source: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/bbusschots\/macos-quickaction-text\/tree\/master\/Services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/github.com\/bbusschots\/macos-quickaction-text<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can see how Bart created this in his blog post at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/2020\/03\/06\/macos-quick-actions-for-text\/\">www.bartbusschots.ie\/&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-20515-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/CCATP_2020_03_06.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/CCATP_2020_03_06.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/CCATP_2020_03_06.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a title=\"mp3 download\" href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/CCATP_2020_03_06.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mp3 download<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week our guest is Bart Busschots with an installment of something he&#8217;s calling Programming By Stealth-adjacent. It&#8217;s not part of the regular series of Programming By Stealth, and yet it&#8217;s not technically very &#8220;light&#8221; in terms of the chit chatting. Since neither podcast is the right place for it, I&#8217;ve decided to put it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,737,172,213],"tags":[1032,616,4030,1034,4031],"class_list":["post-20515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-posts","category-ccatp-lite","category-ccatp","category-programming-by-stealth","tag-automator","tag-javascript","tag-quick-actions","tag-services","tag-text-manipulation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ChitChatPond_V7_300px.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20515"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20518,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20515\/revisions\/20518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}