A community-powered hub for discovering, sharing, and managing powerful iOS Shortcuts.
Shortquts is an open-source project aimed at creating a clean, user-friendly, and powerful web platform for the iOS Shortcuts community. Our goal is to provide a central place where users can find reliable, well-documented shortcuts to automate their daily tasks, and where creators can share their work with a wider audience.
This GitHub repository is the central hub for the entire project. In its current, initial phase, it serves a critical role:
This repository acts as the primary data source (a "JSON Database") for the project's core data.
This allows us to:
- Develop and test the official "Shortquts Updater" iOS Shortcut against a stable data structure.
- Finalize the data architecture before the full backend is deployed.
- Collaborate on the structure and content of the shortcut database.
The full PHP-based website and API are currently under development.
- A Rich, Structured Database: Shortcuts are documented with detailed metadata, including semantic and integer versioning, multi-language changelogs, compatibility information, required permissions, and dependencies.
- A Powerful Public API: A RESTful API (
/api/v1/) will allow developers, power-users, and other shortcuts to programmatically access the entire shortcuts database. - Community-Driven: The ultimate vision is for the community to submit, review, and rate shortcuts, ensuring quality and variety.
- Fully Open Source: Both the frontend website and the backend API code will be made available in this repository, encouraging transparency and contribution.
- Multilingual Support: The data structure is designed from the ground up to support multiple languages for all user-facing text.
/data/shortcuts.json: The main database file containing all information for every shortcut./data/categories.json: Defines the categories used to organize shortcuts./data/users.json: (Future) Will store data for registered users and creators.
We are excited to build this platform for the iOS automation community. Stay tuned for updates!