Create Multiple Trello Cards (API)

script (iOS only)

// Drafts → Trello (REST API, no app switching)
// - One card per non-empty line
// - Line format: "Title :: Description"
// - Appends a template to the description
// - Uses Trello API key, token, and list ID stored in a Drafts Credential

// ===== Settings (logic only) =====
const DELIM = "::";
const ALWAYS_APPEND_TEMPLATE = true;
const APPEND_TEMPLATE_WHEN_NO_DESC = true;

const TEMPLATE =
  "Why → \n" +
  "Blockers → \n" +
  "Done → \n" +
  "Next → ";

// ===== Helper: build description =====
function buildDescription(userDesc) {
  const trimmed = (userDesc || "").trim();

  // No description supplied
  if (!trimmed) {
    return APPEND_TEMPLATE_WHEN_NO_DESC ? TEMPLATE : "";
  }

  // Description supplied
  if (ALWAYS_APPEND_TEMPLATE) {
    return trimmed + "\n\n" + TEMPLATE;
  } else {
    return trimmed;
  }
}

// ===== Trello credentials (stored securely in Drafts) =====
// This will prompt once for key, token, and listId (“Incoming”), then reuse them.
let cred = Credential.create(
  "TrelloAPI",
  "Enter your Trello API key, token, and target list ID (idList) for Incoming."
);
cred.addTextField("key", "API Key");
cred.addPasswordField("token", "API Token");
cred.addTextField("listId", "List ID (Incoming)");

if (!cred.authorize()) {
  context.cancel("Trello authorization cancelled.");
  throw new Error("Authorization cancelled.");
}

const apiKey = cred.getValue("key");
const token = cred.getValue("token");
const TRELLO_LIST_ID = cred.getValue("listId"); // e.g. 65b96f1d09c09af2faf99732

// ===== Main: process lines and create cards via REST API =====
const lines = draft.content
  .split("\n")
  .map(l => l.trim())
  .filter(l => l.length > 0);

let http = HTTP.create();
let failures = [];

for (let line of lines) {
  // Default: whole line is the card name
  let name = line;
  let description = "";

  // Split "Title :: Description"
  const idx = line.indexOf(DELIM);
  if (idx !== -1) {
    name = line.substring(0, idx).trim();
    description = line.substring(idx + DELIM.length).trim();
  }

  // Build final description with template logic
  const finalDesc = buildDescription(description);

  // Skip if name somehow ends up empty
  if (!name) {
    console.log("Skipped line with empty name: " + line);
    continue;
  }

  // Create card via Trello REST API
  let response = http.request({
    url: "https://api.trello.com/1/cards",
    method: "POST",
    timeout: 20,
    data: {
      key: apiKey,
      token: token,
      idList: TRELLO_LIST_ID,
      name: name,
      desc: finalDesc
    }
  });

  if (
    !response.success ||
    (response.statusCode !== 200 && response.statusCode !== 201)
  ) {
    console.log(
      "Failed to create card for line: " +
        name +
        " | Status: " +
        response.statusCode +
        " | Body: " +
        response.responseText
    );
    failures.push(name);
  } else {
    try {
      let card = JSON.parse(response.responseText);
      console.log("Created card: " + card.name + " (" + card.shortUrl + ")");
    } catch (e) {
      console.log("Created card (JSON parse failed, but status OK): " + name);
    }
  }
}

if (failures.length > 0) {
  context.fail("Failed to create cards for: " + failures.join(", "));
} else {
  // Everything succeeded – cards created in Incoming, no app switching
  // You can uncomment the next line if you want Drafts to explicitly mark success:
  // context.succeed();
}

prompt (macOS only)

prompt

Prompt

This action is available only on iOS, due to differences between the iOS and Mac version of Fantastical.

OK

false

false