Can Siri Shortcuts be used with Pleco on IOS?

semidevil

秀才
I know that Pleco has the built in browser, however, I still like to use either Chrome or safari for IOS to consume media.
As Pleco doesn’t have extensions, is there a way to use Siri Shortcuts to look up and pass back the definition?

My ideal situation would be I highlight a Chinese character in Chrome and I can use shortcuts for it to look up a word in Pleco and pass it back to me.

Thanks!
 
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mikelove

皇帝
Staff member
Yes - make an open URL shortcut with a URL like this:

plecoapi://x-callback-url/s?q=(your search term)
 

semidevil

秀才
awesome. thank you! any chance there is guidance or documentation on step by step to get it to work? I'm pretty new to shortcuts and literally only downloaded the app at this point.
 

Shun

状元
You're welcome! I think so, yes. It does that for me, too. If you select a large amount of text, you can pass it to Pleco and read it there in the Clipboard reader, tapping on words you don't know. I guess that's preferable to having to switch back and forth between the apps.
 
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