Writing a script to autocomplete from a list selection

[martinperry]

@sylumer Thanks a lot for this.

I’m able to run the script you’ve provided in Scriptable and then in Drafts; however, I’m struggling with the coding required to execute the steps you outined in your link, specifically:

@sylumer

When Shortcuts calls Scriptable, it generated an x-success parameter. We can query that from the script and append the JSON as an additional parameter; after converting it to a string and URL encoding it so that it can safely be included in a URL. Then we trigger the URL to open and we’re back in Shortcuts. We’re just carrying out the actions an app with built-in x-callback-url would in our own code.

Note that because we are doing x-callback-url, in this approach we don’t need to split the shortcut to have a pre-script-run shortcut and a post-script-run shortcut. Also by eliminating hard coding the shortcut to call back to, we have the potential for greater reusability of the Scriptable script.

Once back in shortcuts, the result from the x-callback-url can be extracted, converted to a dictionary and used to display the next result.

Would it be possible to outline the coding steps required in the Drafts environment for me to have a go? I’m afraid I’m rather new to all this!

Martin