Can Scriptable create a zip archive?

Scriptable
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Hi,

Every week I use my Mac to manually create a recursive zip of my iA Writer folders.

I was thinking of automating this on iOS. I wondered if this was possible in Scriptable.

I tried using jszip, but the generateASync() promise never returned.

Is there another way of doing it?

Thanks for any pointers,

Martin

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Have you tried using the built in Shortcut actions for working with zip files?

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Thank you so much for that suggestion. I’d quickly tried it earlier and thought I couldn’t select a folder in Shortcuts. I was wrong: ‘select multiple’ allow selection of a single folder.

So an easy Shortcut allows me to create a zip in the Shortcuts icloud folder.

The only part I would love to streamline is to not have to select the folder at all - I’m always archiving the same iA Writer folder (I was hoping Scriptable could work from a hard coded path to the folder, but it needs bookmark support to do that)

Thank you again,

Martin

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There’s an iOS imposed limitation. Regardless of the app, you would (currently) always have to select it manually.

But if you have a Mac, that isn’t constrained in the same way. Any reason you want to do it on iOS rather than on the Mac?