shortquts

Shortquts

A community-powered hub for discovering, sharing, and managing powerful iOS Shortcuts.

Shortquts is an open-source project aimed at creating a clean, user-friendly, and powerful web platform for the iOS Shortcuts community. Our goal is to provide a central place where users can find reliable, well-documented shortcuts to automate their daily tasks, and where creators can share their work with a wider audience.

🚧 Project Status: In Development 🚧

This GitHub repository is the central hub for the entire project. In its current, initial phase, it serves a critical role:

This repository acts as the primary data source (a “JSON Database”) for the project’s core data.

This allows us to:

Develop and test the official “Shortquts Updater” iOS Shortcut against a stable data structure.
Finalize the data architecture before the full backend is deployed.
Collaborate on the structure and content of the shortcut database.

The full PHP-based website and API are currently under development.

✨ Key Features (Vision)

A Rich, Structured Database: Shortcuts are documented with detailed metadata, including semantic and integer versioning, multi-language changelogs, compatibility information, required permissions, and dependencies.
A Powerful Public API: A RESTful API (/api/v1/) will allow developers, power-users, and other shortcuts to programmatically access the entire shortcuts database.
Community-Driven: The ultimate vision is for the community to submit, review, and rate shortcuts, ensuring quality and variety.
Fully Open Source: Both the frontend website and the backend API code will be made available in this repository, encouraging transparency and contribution.
Multilingual Support: The data structure is designed from the ground up to support multiple languages for all user-facing text.

🗃️ Repository Structure

/data/shortcuts.json: The main database file containing all information for every shortcut.
/data/categories.json: Defines the categories used to organize shortcuts.
/data/users.json: (Future) Will store data for registered users and creators.

We are excited to build this platform for the iOS automation community. Stay tuned for updates!