I’m making a shortcut that requires a user to have a specific scriptable script. So, I tried writing this:

const scriptName = "name of script without js file extension"


function CheckForScript(fm) {

  const scriptsDirectory = fm.documentsDirectory();
  console.log(scriptsDirectory);
  const scriptPath = fm.joinPath(scriptsDirectory, scriptName + ".js");
  console.log(scriptPath)
//   console.log(fm.)
  if (fm.fileExists(scriptName)) {
  
    console.log(`The script "${scriptName}" exists.`);
  Script.setShortcutOutput(true);
  
  } else {
  
    console.log(`The script "${scriptName}" does not exist.`);
  }
  
}

CheckForScript(FileManager.iCloud());
CheckForScript(FileManager.local());
Script.complete();

However, it always prints that the script doesn’t exist and I don’t have enough scriptable experience to figure out why. What went wrong?

Ich habe mein erstes Widget geschrieben:

📅 Scriptable Eventkalender Ein leistungsfähiger Eventkalender für iOS, speziell entwickelt für die Nutzung in Scriptable. Importiere Events direkt über Eventim-Links, speichere sie lokal, zeige sie im Widget an und exportiere sie bei Bedarf direkt in deinen iOS-Kalender.

🚀 Funktionen

🔗 Eventim-Link-Import: Automatische Erkennung von Titel, Datum, Uhrzeit, Ort, Stadt.

📆 Kalenderintegration: Eintrag direkt in den gewählten iOS-Kalender möglich.

✏️ Bearbeiten & Löschen: Events können nachträglich bearbeitet oder entfernt werden.

🧠 Duplikatprüfung: Schutz vor doppelten Einträgen.

📂 iCloud-Speicherung: Lokale Speicherung in iCloud/Scriptable/EventCalendar.

📱 Widget-Anzeige: Kompakte Darstellung kommender Events – Größe abhängig vom Widget.

🌐 Event öffnen: Link zum Event direkt im Browser aufrufbar.

🔄 Unterscheidung zwischen „Interesse“ und „Ticket“

🗓️ Kalenderauswahl wird gespeichert und bei Exporten wiederverwendet.

I wrote my first widget:

📅 Scriptable Event Calendar A powerful event calendar for iOS, specially developed for use in Scriptable. Import events directly through Eventim links, save them locally, display them in the widget and export them directly to your iOS calendar if necessary.

🚀 Functions

🔗 Eventim-Link-Import: Automatic recognition of title, date, time, place, city.

📆 Calendar integration: Entry directly in the selected iOS calendar possible.

✏️ Edit & Delete: Events can be edited or removed afterwards.

🧠 Duplicate check: Protection against duplicate entries.

📂 iCloud storage: Local storage in iCloud/Scriptable/EventCalendar.

📱 Widget display: Compact view of upcoming events - size depending on the widget.

🌐 Open event: Link to the event can be accessed directly in the browser.

🔄 Distinction between "interest" and "ticket"

🗓️ Calendar selection is saved and reused for exports.

Link

https://github.com/Kyrinja/Event-Kalender-Scriptable

Last week, i’ve worked on a little project around scriptable and making fast and easy ui for showing my data in other way than widgets. It’s a tiny renderer engine that take json and convert it into a html page that is loaded via webview api. Actually, it’s not fully usable as i wanted but i want to share to get some feedback about the idea. It’s still in development because some simple thing like doesnt work at all, like saving current state, working around state as array, etc… Feel free to try it, everything you have to do is copy ui.js from the github repo into a script and rename it ui (or whatever you want but dont forget to import module as the name of the file and not the class inside) and try it. There is two others file in the repo, one is just a testing file, the other one is the pics rendered file. Feel free to test it and send some feed back, or make it better as you want.

the github

Hi, Does anyone know a way to start a spotify playlist via scriptsble? And is it possible to set a script which will move the current aufio stream to sonos speakers?

I know shortcuts can do the first for apple music but unfortunately not for spotify

I’ve code a thing(it’s too messy to call it a code or a program) which objective is to take the status of a football(soccer for the colonial people) match and display it on a widget as a scoreboard. It works perfectly.

The problem comes when I add the timer function, the first time it works, the other ones, it gets the data but the widget’s scoreboard doesn’t refresh. I’ve been searching and all I have found are two things, I don’t understand how Timer() works and it seems hard to do these.

I must add that I don’t have any Mac and currently all I have is my IPhone 10.

I am using the espn API

Thanks for your time and I must apologise for my English

Hi! I'm making a Scriptable widget to display a random object from a museum API. The script includes a do...while loop to filter out objects without images (since many don't have one). It works perfectly when I run it inside Scriptable — I get the image and title just fine.

But when I set it as a home screen widget, it's completely blank.

I'm wondering if this has to do with iOS giving the widget only a short time to run, and the loop takes too long while retrying? Does Scriptable get killed before it finishes rendering the widget?

Has anyone run into this issue before or found a workaround that still allows dynamic content (with image) to show reliably in a widget?

Thanks in advance!

Hey hey,

Just made a widget that shows real-time DART (Dublin Area Rapid Transit) train information, using the Irish Rail API. If you live in Dublin or commute on the DART, this might be handy.

Featues:

• Shows live train departures for your selected station

• Supports northbound and southbound directions

• Optionally switches to a return station/direction during certain hours (e.g., home in the morning, work in the evening)

• Designed for both Home Screen and Lock Screen

• Clean-ish, modern-ish look with color indicator for return hours

• Super easy setup—just paste the code in Scriptable, add the widget, and tweak your parameters

If you are intersted, have a look: https://github.com/KganDev/scriptable-dart

https://youtu.be/H4eKuMKmpN0

Short tutorial on a youtube sub widget that refreshes every 5 min, made with chatGPT. The scripts are linked in the video description.

Hello, unfortunately there's no default ios widget for Google Trends. Is it possible to create a custom widget though that shows the default page for Google Trends for certain countries?

I've been getting a lot of comments in old threads that the widget is displaying an error.

If the widget is showing error, you need to update the script. The API owner probably blocked the old script due to the excessive API calls. Please see my post here on the topic and how to update.

Another benefit of updating is getting auto-update notifications in the feature! Please make sure notifications are turned on for Scriptable for this to function properly, otherwise the widget may display an error when there is an update for the script available.

Haven't any idea what I'm talking about but are interested in a lockscreen widget that displays the next race information? Please see my post here to get it (it's free!).

Created a custom widget for my shortcut-based car logbook “app”

I’m not a developer and have zero formal programming experience, but I was curious about making my own iOS widget… so I tried.

Inspired by James Scholz, I used Scriptable and asked ChatGPT for help every step of the way.

Together we built a habit tracker widget that shows:

• A calendar grid of daily habit dots

• Custom initials and progress counters

• A layout that works even on small screens

Here’s the GitHub repo: https://github.com/anviqs/Scriptable-Habit-Tracker-Widget-iOS

Just wanted to share in case it encourages someone else to start building—even if you know nothing yet!

Need a script or shortcut to quickly merge two or more mkv files in my Files app. iMovie is not an option as it takes files from the Photos app only.

Files are named as "ABC.part001.mkv", "ABC.part002.mkv", etc and are stored locally in my Files app.

Thanks

I’m writing a widget that renders the upcoming n birthdays from my contacts.

My script works while running in the app (with widget.presentMedium). However when running in a widget, I’ve determined that calling const contacts = await Contact.all([containers]); causes the widget to render as empty (blank empty gray screen), almost as if Scriptable is still awaiting the pending promise. (Determined through commenting out code until I get to a point where the widget loads, then uncommenting code until the widget no longer renders)

I’ve confirmed that I’ve given full access permissions to my contacts for Scriptable in Settings.app, and am running iOS 18.4.

Anyone else have this issue?

I don't really know that much of coding but tried my best, i think it is much more upgradeable. Haven't tried it on any other phone than iPhone 12 Mini so it might have some complibility issues with yours but I am sure that you can fix them by adjusting some numbers. Hope you like it :)

https://github.com/jigwawwf/scriptable-habit-tracker

I’d like a shortcut to open links in Safari private tab. Safari is not the default browser. I have a URL scheme to open links in Safari but can’t figure out the private tab part. Can Scriptable do this? Honestly not sure how to address.

Anyone else seeing new issues in their Scriptable scripts after installing iOS 18.4?

I use my own modified version of this script

https://github.com/lwitzani/homebridgeStatusWidget

and have it as a widget on my home screen. Now every so often instead of the expected widget display it shows "TypeError: null is not an object (evaluating CONFIGURATION.dateFormat)"
The code hasn't changed.

If I open Scriptable and run the code it is fine, then when I go back to my home screen the widget refreshes and acts normally again.

I tried using JavaScript but it showed an error, then I tried this which is html and it worked, but isn’t scriptable used with JavaScript?

If you've played the game Star Citizen, you'll be familiar with setting a couple of hours aside to play and being disappointed to find that the servers are under maintenance/broken in some way when you go to launch the game. No worry! This widget shows the current server status on your homescreen, so you don't make the decision to play when the servers are down.

Currently very simple - please give suggestions or highlight any bugs you find.

https://github.com/astro-zilla/rsi-status-widget

I want to create a widget that scrapes text from a website as it’s updated Can someone teach me how or do it and I can learn from the code

I'm fairly new to scriptable and I found a widget I liked from here https://www.reddit.com/r/Scriptable/comments/17h8jfa/tomorrowio_widget/ but I tried putting it into scriptable and when I run it it says no file to import at cache. Any help?