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by dundarious 1162 days ago
Shortcuts are good for this type of functionality as well, and as a bonus, can be used from within apps like Twitter via the share sheet.
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LordDragonfang 1162 days ago
For any non-Apple-users browsing this comment thread, "Shortcuts" is Apple's visual-scripting automation language for iOS and MacOS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortcuts_(app)

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KMnO4 1162 days ago
Shortcuts are actually very underrated since they can run JS on webpages. A lot of things are possible that wouldn’t otherwise be possible on iOS.
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codetrotter 1162 days ago
Sounds intriguing. I currently copy the URL of any page I am interested in and then open a new tab, click the favourite for archive.is and then paste the URL and hit save. Then I do the same with web.archive.org/save

If shortcuts can make this process faster and require fever steps when I use them, I would like to have a shortcut for each of those two archive sites.

Anyone have good shortcut to share for either of the two archive sites?

I found some but neither of the ones I tried were quite perfect. The one for Wayback Machine navigated there but did not automatically start the save. The one for archive.is activated reader mode after archiving.

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dundarious 1162 days ago
I would not seek perfection from a Shortcut. A 90% solution is commonly achievable though. I shared an archive.ph one in another comment.

As for Reader mode, I think you just need to go to the site again, hit "aA", "Website settings", and disable "Use Reader mode automatically".

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