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Waboodoo / HTTP-Shortcuts

Android app to create home screen shortcuts that trigger arbitrary HTTP requests
https://http-shortcuts.rmy.ch
MIT License
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Example request recipes #213

Open pataquets opened 3 years ago

pataquets commented 3 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Documentation/usage

Describe the solution you'd like Have some example requests available to view (either to learn or even to use right away)

Describe alternatives you've considered Ready to import example requests file on GitHub (repo, wiki) Built-in, curated examples, ideally for widely common use cases (pastebins, URL shorteners or the likes)

Additional context Being able to import from URL would make them even more useful (paste & import recipes) Having a place to submit recipes would help usage with contributed ones.

Waboodoo commented 3 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion. This is something I've been meaning to set up for a while, but it's actually a bit tricky, mainly because, as I specifically don't track users' interaction with and use of the app, I don't actually know much about how or for what purposes this app is being used. As such, a good start would of course be, as you suggest, to make it community-driven and allow people to submit their own recipes. For this I'm currently not sure what a good format or platform would be, or how to let users know that it exists.

So far what I have is a curated list of articles and videos made by users of the app where they show a specific way to use the app. Find it here: https://http-shortcuts.rmy.ch/examples As a next step I'm considering adding some more examples of my own there, and perhaps also linking to them from within the app, with a tutorial-like intro when the app is first opened. But that requires a lot of time and effort, which is why it's not quite there yet.

Regarding importing from URL; that is already possible with the app today. The Import feature allows to either import from a file or from a publicly accessible URL, so in theory one could already easily pull in 3rd party example shortcuts.

jwmh commented 3 years ago

Thank you both! I, too, will add my vote here.

My general set of desired use cases: eMacros or iMacros (as it seems they are sometimes called). (Maybe add 'macro' to keyword/README search?)

My specific use case: I deliberately live/work with almost zero internet access.

So approx. 1x/week, i will head into town and use wifi at an internet cafe. Meanwhile, almost all of my work is drafted and revised while in a strictly offline mode during the week.

(I intentionally managed to get my hands on a separate 'dumbphone' which can only do sms/calls.)

Queues: Emails work fine, as most clients feature queuing in the Outbox, until an internet connection is noticed.

But other almost all other channels,e.g. Facebook (yuck) posts to a Group, do not have any sort of offline-queue option.

I can compose them in a plaintext editor and later copy/paste when online, but would much rather have this approach so i can run my queue instead.

If i had templates for making posts (e.g. Posing questions to a few Groups i regularly engage with), that would be amazing.

Admittedly, my set of use-cases may be outside the scope of this project. I will say that in most cases, I prefer to use a website, rather installing yet another app. (e.g. https://MBASIC.facebook.com/groups/xxxxxxx/.... works more or less without any javascript, for basic FB functions.) Or i'll use "SlimSocial for Facebook" (a FOSS app on FDroid, essentially just a wrapper for the website, weighs <1mb, with some useragent and other basic options).