Can input be passed to Scriptable from Shortcuts app?

[simonbs]

I get why this is confusing but args is only used when running the script from a share sheet.

I’ve briefly described two approaches for passing input/output between shortcuts:

Receive a value from Scriptable in Shortcuts

Unfortunately passing data between Shortcuts is not supported by iOS. However there are two workarounds that you can look into. Use the pasteboard. Both Scriptable and Shortcuts supports manipulating the pasteboard. In Scriptable this is done with the Pasteboard API. When you run a script, you can put a string or image into the pasteboard and read it in Shortcuts. The benefit of this approach is that it doesn’t require Shortcuts or Siri to open scriptable. The next approach does. Use x-callbac…