Is it possible to access Data Jar from Scriptable?

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Two apps from @simonbs so there must be a way…

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For now it is via Shortcuts. He’s mentioned this being requested several times.

Have a listen to him talk about Data Jar on the iPad Pros podcast, episode 78.

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Interesting podcast, the answer is in the last two minutes. So we should not expect an api access soon.
And if you need to set up a value in Data Jar from outside shortcut, the only solution now is Pushcut. It might be simpler to use some json stored in icloud then…

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I’m curious what your use case is for connecting Scriptable to Data Jar? I downloaded Data Jar as I’m a huge fan of Simon’s work and active in Scriptable, but I haven’t found a use case where Data Jar would be preferable to just using the FileManager API in Scriptable.

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Well if you consider Data Jar as the ultimate storage for Shortcuts, then you want to access that data from anywhere… I was thinking of global variables.

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Here is a fun little shortcut for managing a tea timer with handy granularity and persistence for future runs. https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/a907f82756c245818bc52eedc9505d51