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ParcelBot: A Shortcut to Track Your Deliveries with the New Parcel API

• Federico

For years now, I’ve been using Parcel as my go-to package tracking app on iPhone and iPad. The app continues to offer the best combination of clean design, integration with international couriers, and performance I’ve seen to date. (I recently tried a whole bunch of delivery trackers for Android; none of them were comparable to Parcel.) So naturally, when John sent me a link to the newly announced Parcel API earlier this week, my ears perked up. What could I do with a Parcel API in Shortcuts to check on the status of my deliveries?

Today for the Shortcuts Corner, I’m sharing ParcelBot, a shortcut I built that integrates with the Parcel API to quickly display ongoing shipments and delivered packages, all through a simple menu-based interface that can be used from Siri, as a widget, or as a regular shortcut.