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Quickly Email A Picture On iOS Using Pythonista

Quickly Email A Picture On iOS Using Pythonista In my review of Pythonista yesterday, I didn’t include any scripts to send email messages. Email is, however, a huge part of my iOS workflow, as I often...

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Quickly Create Pythonista Shortcuts with Custom Icons

Quickly Create Pythonista Shortcuts with Custom Icons Interesting set of scripts posted on the Pythonista Community Forums (which, by the way, are becoming a daily appointment for me as Pythonista...

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Home Automation With An iPad

Home Automation With An iPad Here’s another interesting use case for my ongoing coverage of Pythonista. From the Pythonista Community Forums, user nlecaude shares a script and a demo video showing how...

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From Instapaper and Pythonista To Dropbox and Evernote As PDF

I’ve already expressed my preference for archiving webpages as PDFs rather than simple “bookmarks” on an online service. When I come across a webpage that I know I want to keep for future reference, I...

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iOS YouTube Downloader with Pythonista

iOS YouTube Downloader with Pythonista Useful script created by “pudquick” on the Pythonista forums: Browse to http://m.youtube.com in Mobile Safari, view a video that you like (press Stop if it starts...

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Chaining Tweetbot, Pythonista, Drafts, and iMessage for URLs

Last night, Tweetbot for iOS was updated with support for the Twitter 1.1 API, which, among various requirements, includes the need of linking a tweet’s timestamp – the date and time when it was sent...

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Pythonista 1.3 Brings Camera Roll and Notification Center Support, New...

Ole Zorn’s Pythonista is one of my favorite, most-used iOS apps to date. Combining a Python interpreter with scripting capabilities that take advantage of iOS through native interface elements and...

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Create and Share Evernote Notes With Pythonista On iOS

I use Evernote on a daily basis, but there’s no easy and quick way to create new notes and receive their shared URLs on iOS. While I tend to prefer plain text files, Evernote notes are quite useful...

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Automating iOS: How Pythonista Changed My Workflow

A couple of months ago, I decided to start learning Python. I say “start” because, as a hobby to fit in between my personal schedule and work for the site, learning the language is still very much a...

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Send Multiple Tasks To OmniFocus Mail Drop At Once With Drafts and Pythonista

Send Multiple Tasks To OmniFocus Mail Drop At Once With Drafts and Pythonista Nice workflow by Nathan Henrie to send multiple tasks to OmniFocus at once using Mail Drop, Drafts, and Pythonista: I’ve...

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A Better Chrome To Safari Bookmarklet

In January, I tried to put together a bookmarklet to send the webpage currently open in Google Chrome for iOS to Apple's Safari. That turned out to be a surprisingly complex effort as Google didn't...

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Resolve Short URLs with Pythonista on iOS

I don’t like it when third-party apps or services force me to share links to articles or webpages using their own custom shortened links. I understand the appeal of personalized short domains – after...

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Check Dev Center Status From iOS with Pythonista

A great idea by reader Nicolas Hoibian, which uses BeautifulSoup to fetch the source code of Apple’s System Status page, parse it, and print it with custom fonts and colors in Pythonista’s console....

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Fixing iOS Screenshot Status Bars with Python

Dr. Drang: On last week’s episode of The Prompt, Federico went off on a rant about ugly iOS screenshots. He wasn’t complaining about the apps themselves being ugly, he was chastising those of us who...

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Automate iOS Contacts, Location Services, and Open In Menu with Pythonista 1.4

Pythonista is the app that changed my iOS workflow a year ago. A Python interpreter with native access to iOS system features like photos, URLs, and interface elements, Pythonista allowed me to...

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My iOS Screenshot Generation Workflow

I didn’t think that complaining about iOS status bars on The Prompt would result in Dr. Drang going on a vision quest to produce better screenshots with Python. But I’m glad that I took the time to...

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Pythonista 1.5: Custom Interfaces, matplotlib, and No More “Open In”

Pythonista 1.5, the latest version of Ole Zorn's Python interpreter for iOS, has been released today on the App Store, bringing new modules, native integrations, UI refinements, and the removal of the...

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Pythonista 2.0 Brings Action Extension, iPad Pro Support, Code Editor...

Back in the Fall of 2012, a few months after I had taken it upon myself to start moving all my work from OS X to iOS, I came across Ole Zorn's Pythonista. A Python interpreter for iPhone and iPad that...

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Pythonista 3.2 Syncs Scripts with iCloud, Supports Open-in-Place via iOS 11’s...

For a long time, Apple's App Store review guidelines prohibited apps from downloading executable code from the Internet. The company's original stance resulted in IDEs that couldn't sync scripts and...

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