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I was bored so I made a Siri Shortcut that posts to the UPS tracking API and reads out loud the current status (i.e. departure scan, etc) and the city (i.e. ZhengZhou) :D You can sign up for an API key here: https://www.ups.com/upsdeveloperkit

Added it into my morning routine shortcut lol

That's actually pretty neat :eek: :cool:

Shortcuts seems like a great feature. Can't wait for people to start posting creative shortcuts such as this.
 
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Yes. UPS Shows 9/21 delivered very for both. I was mostly curious because I didn’t notice anyone else’s phones at the same location.
 
What are we using for references? Phone number like years past? I have a few devices coming the same day...
 
Yes. UPS Shows 9/21 delivered very for both. I was mostly curious because I didn’t notice anyone else’s phones at the same location.
Shenzhen seems to be mainly the XS while ZZ is mainly the XS Max
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What are we using for references? Phone number like years past? I have a few devices coming the same day...
Phone or order number minus last 2 numbers
 
Shenzhen seems to be mainly the XS while ZZ is mainly the XS Max
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Phone or order number minus last 2 numbers
Thanks for the info. All previous years I ordered from Verizon. So this is my first year tracking. And I must say it’s quite fun
 
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I was bored so I made a Siri Shortcut that posts to the UPS tracking API and reads out loud the current status (i.e. departure scan, etc) and the city (i.e. ZhengZhou) :D You need an API key which you can sign up for here: https://www.ups.com/upsdeveloperkit If you want the full shortcut let me know.

Added it into my morning routine shortcut lol

this is awesome! Can you share this?!(without your api in it, of course - I will get my own key!)
Shortcuts is seriously so legit. I can't believe Apple didn't talk about it more!
 
this is awesome! Can you share this?!(without your api in it, of course - I will get my own key!)
Shortcuts is seriously so legit. I can't believe Apple didn't talk about it more!

Here you go: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/e8e057b99a6e46899190ce1ecf826420

You'll see inside of the Get Contents of URL action > Advanced > Request Body, you'll need to go into Security and fill in the Username Token dictionary with your UPS username and pass. Then inside the UPSServiceAccessToken is where the API key goes. I just have placeholders in those fields, so you just have to change them to your info. Then you can change the output text as well. There's things like times and dates in the API response but I'm not sure how to format them properly so that Siri doesn't read out a weird number string (i.e. "054600" should be turned into 5:46am)
 
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Here you go: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/e8e057b99a6e46899190ce1ecf826420

You'll see inside of the Get Contents of URL action > Advanced > Request Body, you'll need to go into Security and fill in the Username Token dictionary with your UPS username and pass. Then inside the UPSServiceAccessToken is where the API key goes. I just have placeholders in those fields, so you just have to change them to your info. Then you can change the output text as well. There's things like times and dates in the API response but I'm not sure how to format them properly so that Siri doesn't read out a weird number string (i.e. "054600" should be turned into 5:46am)

You are my hero! Got it set up, and it works! Matches up to my departure scan too!
Now to look deeper into the API docs and see if there is a way to get it to spit out the times too! :D
 
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