Create your workflow
Launch Automator ( in the /Applications brochure ) and in the template chooser that appears , select Service and snap Choose . Configure the top of the workflow to readService Receives No stimulus in Any app . In the Actions program library select Internet and drag the following action into the workflow area : Get Specified URL , Get Link uniform resource locator from Articles , and Display Webpages .
In the Get Specified URL area , clack Add and add the address of the RSS feed you wish well to reckon in Safari — feed://rss.macworld.com / macworld / weblogs / mac911for example . In the Get Link URLs from Articles activeness , be sure that the Only tax return URL In The Same orbit As The Original Webpage option is enable . This ensures that you do n’t meander up with clause pulled from other websites . store your work flow .
Now , if you click Run in the top - right turning point of the work flow , Safari will launch and open multiple tabs , each exhibit an clause from the provender . In the time to come , when you want to operate the workflow , simply pick out Services from any app ’s app menu and choose your work flow from the hierarchical menu .
Add a temporary feed
This is fine if you always need to see feeds from the same websites . But there may be prison term when you wish to view another site ’s feed just once . render to your work flow and in the Get Specified URLs action press Options . In the country that appear , start the Show This legal action When the Workflow Runs pick and save the workflow .
When you next conjure the work flow a Get specify URLs windowpane will come along . Within it , dawn on the Add clit and enter the provender savoir-faire for the site you wish to pull articles from and then click Continue .
Filter the feeds
Using this work flow you may encounter web site that have dozens of clause in their feed , offer more yellow journalism that you may wish to sink in through . you may modify the work flow to filter articles so that you see just the ones you ’re likely to be interested in . In this case , make a workflow with actions in this order : Get Specified URLs , Filter Articles , Get Link universal resource locator from Articles , and Display Webpages . The Filter Articles action is novel and it work like this .
Suppose you use Macworld ’s Mac 911 feed that I provided as an model earlier . You do n’t want to read all the clause , just Ted Landau ’s Bugs & Fixes pieces . To see just those articles you ’d configure the Filter Articles military action to read : Content Contains Landau . Save and then execute the workflow . When Safari opens , only those Mac 911 article penned by Mr. Landau will open up in tab .
If you want to interchange your filtering options each time you raise the work flow , you already have a clue how to go about it . Return to the work flow and in the Filter Articles military action , press Options , enable Show This Action When the Workflow Runs , and save the workflow . When you next melt down it you ’ll be able to configure the action and enter Modern sink in options — Content carry Breen , for case .
