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Copy The Info.

One tap on the loads page copies the numbers and drops you on the board, ready to paste.

What it is

A Share Sheet shortcut

It is a small Apple Shortcut called AS Fly Loads Text Grabber. You run it from the Share button while you are looking at a flight search page. It does three things and then gets out of the way:

  1. Reads the text of the page you are already looking at.
  2. Copies that text to your clipboard.
  3. Opens the board so you can paste it in.

That is the whole thing. It does not log in anywhere, it does not click anything for you, and it does not run in the background.

Where the text goes

Nowhere but your own device

The copied text goes to your clipboard. You paste it into the board, and the board reads it in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is saved on a server, and there is no account behind any of this.

The grab is a plain text copy of the page, so it does include the signed-in account header with your name on it. The board treats that header as noise and never lets it reach the data. Close the tab and it is gone.

One thing to disclose so the claim above is exact: these pages load their typefaces from Google Fonts, which is a request to a Google server every time you open one. It carries nothing about you beyond what any web request carries, and it happens before you paste anything. The board itself makes no such request.

Worth knowing anyway: the loads themselves are internal information. Paste them into the board, not into a group chat.

Install

Add the shortcut

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Add the shortcut

Opens the Shortcuts app · iPhone, iPad or Mac

First time on iPhone or iPad

  1. Tap the button above. The Shortcuts app opens and shows you every action the shortcut contains. Scroll it, then tap Add Shortcut.
  2. Open Safari and go to the flight search page.
  3. Tap Share, scroll past the app row, and tap AS Fly Loads Text Grabber.
  4. The first run asks permission to read the page. Tap Allow. You may be asked once per site.

If the shortcut is not in the Share Sheet: scroll to the bottom of the Share Sheet, tap Edit Actions, find it under Other Actions and tap the green plus. That pins it near the top for next time.

Still missing? Open Shortcuts, tap the shortcut, tap the details button, and check that Show in Share Sheet is on.

First time on Mac

Two one-time settings, then it behaves the same as on the phone.

  1. Safari › Settings › Advanced, tick Show features for web developers. A Develop menu appears in the menu bar.
  2. Develop menu, tick Allow JavaScript from Apple Events. Without this the shortcut silently returns nothing on a Mac.
  3. System Settings › General › Login Items & Extensions. Under Extensions choose Sharing and switch on Shortcuts. This is what puts shortcuts in the Mac share menu at all.
  4. In the Shortcuts app, open the shortcut, click the details button and confirm Show in Share Sheet is ticked.

Then in Safari: Share button › Shortcuts › AS Fly Loads Text Grabber. macOS asks once for permission to control Safari. Allow it.

Nothing to enable on iOS. The Develop menu and the extension switch are Mac only.

Using it

Three things to remember

Safari only. The shortcut reads the active Safari tab. Run it from Chrome or any other browser on your phone and it comes back with nothing, quietly, which looks like the shortcut is broken when it is only in the wrong app.

Expand "Show connections via ..." before you grab. Skip that and you capture the nonstops alone, and the board has nothing else to rank.

Grab again rather than reusing an old tab. Loads move as revenue passengers book and other people list. The board's age clock turns amber at thirty minutes and tells you to pull again at ninety, and it means it.

Then: Share › AS Fly Loads Text Grabber. It copies, the board opens, you paste into the intake box.

The one real trap

One board per travel day

Grab one date, build the board, and start a fresh board for the next date. Do not paste a second day into a board that already holds a different one.

The board recognises an itinerary by its flight numbers plus departure time, so Tuesday's 1321 at 9:54 looks identical to Monday's and gets thrown away as a duplicate. It reports success either way. Nothing warns you, the count just comes back smaller than it should.

The opposite case is fine and genuinely useful: two grabs from the same day out of different airports merge correctly. Pull SEA, then pull PAE, use Add to board, and rank the whole metro together.

Under the hood

Why two extra lines get added

The shortcut sticks two lines on the front of whatever it copies.

The page URL. That is what carries the route and the travel date. Some page layouts leave the route out of the visible text, so without the URL the board cannot date its flight status links correctly.

A CAPTURED timestamp. The age badge on the board reads that stamp to tell you how fresh the loads are. Without it the badge falls back to the file's build time and starts calling current data stale.

If you would rather

Build it by hand

Four actions. Same result.

  1. Receive Apps and Safari Web Pages from Share Sheet. If there is no input: Continue.
  2. Run JavaScript on Active Safari Tab: 
    var t = document.body.innerText;
completion(document.URL + "\nCAPTURED "
  + new Date().toLocaleString() + "\n\n"
  + t.replace(/\n{3,}/g, "\n\n").trim());
  3. Copy JavaScript Result to clipboard.
  4. Show web view at https://206yall.com/standby-board-portable_v1.html

On Android

Sorry. Apple shop.

Shortcuts is an Apple app and there is no equivalent that can reach into the browser this way, so the one-tap grab is not happening on Android.

The board itself is just a web page and works fine in any browser, so you can do it the long way. Expand the connections, select all the page text, copy, open the board, paste.

One extra step, and it matters. A hand copy loses the two lines the shortcut adds for you. Before you paste, type the page's own address as the first line of the box, the one that looks like .../search/SEA/STS/28Jul. That is the only place the travel date lives. Without it the board cannot date its links, and with no capture time it dates the loads from when the file was built instead of when you grabbed them.