Stream version 1.5 is now available in the App Store!

What’s new? 💥

This version includes a new feature that allows you to add a feed by invoking a custom scheme. What’s that you ask? Well, it’s basically a custom URL that Stream has registered with iOS that causes the operating system to allow Stream to handle them.

So, if you want to write a Shortcut to add a feed automatically you can add a custom URL like this.

hs-stream://actions/subscribe?value=https://multiline.co/mment

I’m sure folks will come up with all kinds of ways to make use of this in scripts and Shortcuts. Here’s an image of a simple example using Safari to open Stream and subscribe to a site.

I’d like to thank Ashur Cabrerra for the idea, for testing the implementation, for finding a bug that existed in Stream since the 1.0 release, and for his constant support of Stream! 🙏🏼

What’s Fixed? 🐛

During the development of the new automated subscribe feature Ashur discovered an existing bug. It’s been there since version 1.0! Basically the code that parses dates in Stream would fail on any date that included fractional seconds. As you can probably imagine dates are represented in multiple formats in feeds. Stream continues to adapt to those formats and it was really nice to be able to fix this bug so we can support more of your favorite feeds.

Thanks, Ashur!