Help with opening a website with the current date in the url

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@Romeo16

I got shortcuts to work but they can’t be saved as a file to run or automated on specific days as far as I could tell.

We were having a discussion about how you can do that just the other day.

Scheduling Shortcuts (on macOS Monterey)

Hi, I have just installed Monterey, and am I being stupid, but is there a built-in way to schedule a Shortcut to run at a specific time? For instance, I want to create a Shortcut to ssh into a server and get some data at 4:00 am. I’m sure I must have missed something obvious. If not via Shortcuts then what are people using to fire Shortcuts on a Schedule (like Cron)?

@Romeo16

How can I adjust the Shell Script to add a certain number of days to "+%Y-%m-%d"? For example, if I wanted to add 5 days to the date of the URL:

Here is an example that will just output the result of that date calculation. Try it, then you should be able to use it to update your URL string.

echo $(date -v +5d "+%Y-%m-%d")

A useful command to know is man. If you type man date at the command prompt it will give you access to the documentation for the date command. -v is one of the options for this command in Z-shell and it allows you to do basic date arithmetic. man is a fantastic starting point for whenever you are using a command line instruction or utility - all the documentation is built right in; though an Internet search can often bring up the output of man too.