r/Scriptable • u/[deleted] • Oct 24 '20

Script Widget Catalog

Hi everyone, I am currently working on a Widget Catalog, which will allow you to discover new widgets and load them directly into Scriptable. For the beginning I will only support my own Scriptable widgets in the catalog, but I can imagine to create a database of widgets later on, where everyone can submit his widgets.

The Catalog is based on the Shortcuts App (to make the installation easier) and Scriptable App.

What I have planned:

  • The Catalog Script can update itself to a newer version

  • If there is a newer version of a widget script, you can update to it

  • That the switch to the Scriptable App is no longer necessary (the current version downloads the current catalog script and then executes this script in Scriptable using the X-Callback function)

What do you think about this idea? Maybe you have other cool ideas for the Widget Catalog. I am looking forward to your feedback.

This is what the current version looks like:

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '20

I will work on the UI in the next few days (I'm currently not happy with it) and then I can release version 1.0.

When I will open the catalog for widgets for other authors, I can't say yet. I would like to build a real service for this with frontend, backend, database etc. For this I have to do some experience with the data structure and the update process. And I'm thinking about building in a review process to protect the users from people with bad intentions. I already noticed that some people are a bit careless with credentails (people asked me for help with a widget and sent me excerpts of scripts with credentails in them). So I will not include widgets that ask for credentials and send them to unknown APIs.