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.

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

Delivering Updates to Users

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

You can find out more by visting the UpdateKit API website and browsing the documentation.

Latest Release Notes

6.2 - May 13, 2022, 6:29 a.m.

Changes the update flow so that RoutinePub is always up-to-date. This removes the option to update from the main menu and checks on startup instead. This is lightning fast now thanks to the new UpdateKit API.

Changes the display of some information, such as update release notes and the RoutineHub rules, to a different action because Apple has not fixed the broken Alert action on iOS 15 yet.

Version history

Feedback

@medicalshortcuts

This is awesome! Just got to give it a shot for the first time and it works perfectly! Awesome job!
Reply · 3 years, 7 months ago

@Josh0678

I like this shortcut, I can update my shortcuts here and it’s super fast and easy! :)
Reply · 3 years, 6 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 · 3 years, 4 months ago

@MikeBeas Author

You don’t have any shortcuts on your account.
Reply · 3 years, 4 months ago

@haty1

just trying to associate some shortcuts I got from Routinehub so that I can use the UpdateKit
Reply · 3 years, 4 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 · 3 years, 4 months ago

@AShortcuts

How did you integrate Airbag into the Shortcut?
Reply · 3 years, 4 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 · 3 years, 4 months ago

@AShortcuts

Can you make a shortcut with airbag integrated in it as an example.
Reply · 3 years, 4 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 · 3 years, 4 months ago

@iMadScience

What is airbag? Sounds interesting.
Reply · 3 years ago

@MikeBeas Author

it’s a shortcut on my profile
Reply · 3 years 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 · 3 years 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 · 3 years ago

@iMadScience

Yeah! Knew it!
Reply · 3 years ago

@PatCollins

Says I’m running an outdated version? Deleted and re-added and same thing.
Reply · 3 years, 3 months ago

@MikeBeas Author

outdated version of updatekit or routinepub?
Reply · 3 years, 3 months ago

@PatCollins

Routinepub
Reply · 3 years, 3 months ago

@PatCollins

Restarted my phone and it’s good now. Weird.
Reply · 3 years, 3 months ago

@MikeBeas Author

super weird! but shortcuts is buggy sometimes.
Reply · 3 years, 3 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 · 3 years, 3 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 · 3 years, 3 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 · 3 years ago

@mtrevino57

Thanks! I will give it another shot!
Reply · 3 years ago

@Robnor1

Can you publish new shortcuts using this?
Reply · 3 years, 2 months ago

@MikeBeas Author

Not currently. There is no API for that in RoutineHub yet.
Reply · 3 years, 2 months ago

@yottalogical

@@michaelthompson1991

Comes up with the operation could not be completed, tried deleting and re-downloading but same problem, any ideas?
Reply · 3 years, 2 months ago

@MikeBeas Author

please see this thread https://twitter.com/updatekit/status/1106837976078868481?s=21
Reply · 3 years, 2 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 · 3 years 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 · 3 years 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 · 3 years 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 · 3 years 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 · 2 years, 11 months ago

@MikeBeas Author

do you have a period in your shortcut’s name?
Reply · 2 years, 11 months ago

@Bentmperez

Do I do not...do I have to have one? If yes where?
Reply · 2 years, 11 months 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 · 2 years, 11 months ago

@user1283376363658483847474

Good shortcut but it only allows me to update shortcuts not publish them :(
Reply · 2 years, 8 months ago

@MikeBeas Author

RoutineHub’s API does not support the creation of new shortcuts at this time.
Reply · 2 years, 8 months ago

@user1283376363658483847474

Then why did you say in the name at the tip publish shortcuts to routinehub?
Reply · 2 years, 8 months ago

@MikeBeas Author

You are publishing a shortcut when you publish an update. It does not say you can create new listings.
Reply · 2 years, 8 months ago

@user1283376363658483847474

Can you add creating new listings in update
Reply · 2 years, 8 months ago

@MikeBeas Author

I cannot because RoutineHub’s API does not support the creation of new listings.
Reply · 2 years, 8 months ago

@user1283376363658483847474

By the way I love your shortcut UpdateKit. It’s an awesome way to update my shortcuts. :)
Reply · 2 years, 8 months ago

@MikeBeas Author

thanks!
Reply · 2 years, 8 months ago

@Reuben1

iOS 12???????
Reply · 2 years, 8 months ago

@MikeBeas Author

Download the previous version from the version history page. 3.x is the last iOS 12 version.
Reply · 2 years, 8 months ago

@Reuben1

It is outdated when I run it on iOS 12
Reply · 2 years, 8 months ago

@MikeBeas Author

The latest version requires iOS 13. If you cannot run iOS 13 you must stay on RoutineHub 3.
Reply · 2 years, 8 months 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 · 2 years, 5 months 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 · 2 years, 5 months 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 · 2 years, 5 months 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 · 2 years, 5 months ago

@MikeBeas Author

i’ll certainly consider adding it!
Reply · 2 years, 5 months ago

@BuzzTheGamer23

Ok! https://is.gd/thumbsupemoji
Reply · 2 years, 5 months ago

@MikeBeas Author

I just added to version 4.2! Thanks for the idea!
Reply · 2 years, 5 months ago

@BuzzTheGamer23

You’re welcome!
Reply · 2 years, 5 months 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 · 2 years, 4 months ago

@MikeBeas Author

i just tried it and it worked fine. what is the last step you get through before it crashes?
Reply · 2 years, 4 months 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 · 2 years, 4 months 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 · 2 years, 4 months ago

@Mbierman

Why not put in a check if the URL isn't created, issue a warning to the user and exit?
Reply · 2 years, 4 months 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 · 2 years, 4 months ago

@Mbierman

Gotcha. Unfortunate.
Reply · 2 years, 4 months 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 · 2 years, 4 months 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 · 2 years, 4 months ago

@daidardi

And so how can I solve?
Reply · 2 years, 4 months 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 · 2 years, 4 months ago

@daidardi

It can be an idea letting using past version..
Reply · 2 years, 4 months 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 · 2 years, 4 months ago

@MikeBeas Author

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Reply · 2 years, 4 months ago

@eaic

Nice.
Reply · 2 years ago

@JPOD

Worked like a charm and updated my shortcuts perfectly. Thank you for this shortcut.
Reply · 1 year, 10 months ago

@hotwheel2007

updating shortcuts is NOT working in iOS 14! Please fix!
Reply · 1 year, 8 months ago

@MikeBeas Author

Could you please specify what issue you’re seeing? I just posted an update from RP with no issue.
Reply · 1 year, 8 months ago

@hotwheel2007

hello, for some reason I cant reply o your comment. :/ My issue is that when I try to update one of by shortcuts with RoutinePub, It tells me to select a shortcut to update, so I select a shortcut, then press OK. Then it says “Create iCloud Link” and I press OK, then I get a notification that says “An error occurred while running RoutinePub: Failed to modify some records”. Then it does not update the shortcut, this only happened when I installed iPadOS 14.
Reply · 1 year, 8 months ago

@MikeBeas Author

Very strange, I believe that could be an issue with iCloud on your device. Could you please try reinstalling RoutinePub and see if that fixes it?
Reply · 1 year, 8 months ago

@connoeboi

I can’t publish new shortcuts using this
Reply · 1 year, 7 months ago

@MikeBeas Author

RoutineHub’s API does not support that.
Reply · 1 year, 7 months ago

@connoeboi

But, I thought it said “ Publish your iOS shortcuts to RoutineHub directly from the Shortcuts app using RoutinePub, and distribute future updates through UpdateKit.” In the description? I misunderstood something?
Reply · 1 year, 7 months ago

@MikeBeas Author

You have to create the listing from the web but the initial version can be submitted via the shortcut once the listing exists.
Reply · 1 year, 7 months ago

@connoeboi

Oh, that makes sense
Reply · 1 year, 7 months ago

@amphibutter

I’m on version 5.1 and have just gotten this shortcut. It says my API key is the wrong length, even though I pasted it in exactly. Is there something I should change before the next update rolls out?
Reply · 1 year, 6 months ago

@MikeBeas Author

You might need to check if maybe some extra characters are being added, such as zero-width space or something. If there aren’t any and the key is still exactly 40 characters long but still showing the error, I can try to troubleshoot with you, just let me know
Reply · 1 year, 6 months ago

@amphibutter

I just went through and couldn’t find any extra characters. I deleted and re-installed routinepub and it still isn’t quite working, but the update isn’t very recent (So I think its a hub issue, rather than a pub issue).
Reply · 1 year, 6 months ago

@MikeBeas Author

Very strange. I was able to publish a test update just now. Have you tried regenerating your RH key?
Reply · 1 year, 6 months ago

@amphibutter

I regenerated it and it still isn’t quite working. Has anybody else reported a similar issue? EDIT: After a quick reinstall /without/ deleting the system files it works just fine! Probably an installation bug.
Reply · 1 year, 6 months ago

@MikeBeas Author

That’s very weird! Glad it’s working now. Shortcuts behaves badly sometimes, maybe that’s what was happening here.
Reply · 1 year, 6 months ago

@[email protected]

huh I got the same error and the same fix worked.
Reply · 1 year, 1 month ago

@TheWarHawk2005

This works so well! Highly recommend it. However, it doesn’t update the shortcut glyph well. After updating a shortcut with RoutinePub, the shortcut’s icon (on routinehub) shows a blank grey square. Is that fixable?
Reply · 1 year, 4 months ago

@MikeBeas Author

RoutinePub doesn’t have anything to do with that, it depends on when RoutineHub updates the cached icon.
Reply · 1 year, 4 months ago

@TheWarHawk2005

Ok, thanks. Great work, man!
Reply · 1 year, 4 months ago

@TheWarHawk2005

Hey, Mike! I've been scrounging around the internet for some time, now, and I can't find ANYTHING on the routinehub API. Are there docs for it? Does it exist at all?
Reply · 1 year, 4 months ago

@MikeBeas Author

I don’t believe it’s documented. The only reason I even know about it is because I helped design it with Harley for use in this shortcut lol
Reply · 1 year, 4 months ago

@TheWarHawk2005

Ok, thanks. I looked through UpdateKit and found the api url, so I’ve figured most of it out.
Reply · 1 year, 4 months ago

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Reply · 1 year ago

@Void4DevYT_my-ipad-broke-cannot-update-stuff

I have iOS 12, and 13, but my main device uses iOS 12, and I can’t use routine pub, what do I do?
Reply · 11 months, 4 weeks ago

@MikeBeas Author

Unfortunately you’ll need to use iOS 13. iOS 12 is almost 3 years old and it isn’t supported anymore.
Reply · 11 months, 4 weeks ago

@heyjarrod

Thanks for creating this! I adapted the version I downloaded to add a new Choose From Menu underneath the “My Shortcuts” menu in order to add two Open URL action options: (1) Open My Profile, and (2) Add New Shortcut. This lets me quickly get to my page on RoutineHub, or login to add a brand-new shortcut to my profile. If you think that’s worthwhile, I’d love to see those added to the official version. See here: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/63665be1fe0c4ad5a1491826efe00b78
Reply · 10 months ago

@heyjarrod

Would it be possible to show the current version number for a shortcut when publishing an update? It asks for a new version number, but I’m unsure where I’ve left off without checking my profile.
Reply · 10 months ago

@MikeBeas Author

I can look into it. It’ll depend on what info has already been downloaded from the RH API at that point. At the moment I’m kind of keeping development on this shortcut paused during iOS 15 beta because it looks like it’s going to have to be reworked again, since it currently doesn’t work on 15. I can look into doing this at that time!
Reply · 10 months ago

@heyjarrod

👍👍 Thanks for considering!
Reply · 10 months ago

@icebotyt

Shortcut ID: nice 😉👌
Reply · 9 months, 3 weeks ago

@MikeBeas Author

Thanks, it was intentional 😂
Reply · 9 months, 3 weeks ago

@Redstonermoves

It use to work, but now it keeps saying api key too long
Reply · 4 months, 2 weeks ago

@MikeBeas Author

make sure it doesn’t have any extra spaces at the beginning or end. it should be exactly 40 characters.
Reply · 4 months, 2 weeks ago

@Redstonermoves

Edit: 3rd times the char I guess, it worked this time when I regenerated the key
Reply · 4 months, 2 weeks ago

@MikeBeas Author

Not sure what to tell you. I just updated mine in the shortcut and it worked without any issue. I think you must be adding an extra space or line break or something into the field. What version of iOS are you on?
Reply · 4 months, 2 weeks ago

@Redstonermoves

For some reason the 3rd time I regenerated the key it worked, ty though
Reply · 4 months, 2 weeks ago

@justinkopf

For some reason when i type in the api key it doesn’t work it says too long
Reply · 4 months ago

@MikeBeas Author

Sometimes this happens to people but I have no idea why. I think it’s a bug in shortcuts or something. If you regenerate your key it should work. Sometimes people have to regenerate it a few times.
Reply · 4 months ago

@justinkopf

Oh thanks all I had to do is retry 3 times
Reply · 4 months ago

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Reply · 3 months, 1 week ago

@Tinny_Shortcuts

I just realised that routine pub is the 69th shortcut nice
Reply · 2 months, 4 weeks ago

@MikeBeas Author

haha i had a bunch of test shortcuts that i used to make sure all the functionality was working as expected and one of them had this id, so i kept it when i deleted the other tests and reused it for this listing
Reply · 2 months, 4 weeks ago

@Tinny_Shortcuts

Lol
Reply · 2 months, 4 weeks ago

@TheUser

I wish there was support for choosing what version of iOS the shortcut can run on
Reply · 1 month ago

@MikeBeas Author

Unfortunately that isn’t supported by the RoutineHub API but if it was supported I would add that ability.
Reply · 1 month ago

@TheUser

Ah well
Reply · 1 month ago

@TheUser

I was wondering if you could update the UpdateKit API so it could support downgrading.
Reply · 1 week, 4 days ago

@MikeBeas Author

Downgrading is the opposite of updating and is generally the wrong approach at any time. People who use downgrading as a means of fixing a bad version are not following good practices. The proper way to handle the situation is to release a second update with the fix, or a new update that just contains the old version. Making a user downgrade just because the version they’re in isn’t available from the server is not a good idea.
Reply · 1 week, 4 days ago

@TheUser

See, I get your point, but that is not what I mean. I mean that if the user is on a higher version than what is currently out, then you can have the option of downgrading.
Reply · 1 week, 4 days ago

@MikeBeas Author

Right but what I’m saying is that’s not really a valid path in pretty much any case. The newer version would always be the preferable one to be on. The only reason it wouldn’t would be a broken beta, but the solution there is to reinstall the public version, not prompt for a downgrade every time they check for a new version.
Reply · 1 week, 4 days ago

@TheUser

I see your point.
Reply · 1 week, 4 days ago