iOS Shortcut (LlamaDrop)

Install the iOS Shortcut and save URLs straight from any app's share sheet.

LlamaDrop is the share-from-another-app entry point for LiftMonkey. Once you install the iOS Shortcut, a Send to LiftMonkey action shows up on every share sheet on your iPhone or iPad — tap it from Safari, Twitter/X, Photos, Messages, or anywhere else, and the URL lands as a queued save without copy/paste.

Android equivalent: any app that supports "Open in browser" sharing can hand a URL off to LiftMonkey the same way — see the manual section below.

Install on iPhone or iPad

Open this page on your iPhone or iPad in Safari — the install link below uses Apple's iCloud Shortcuts service and only works in Safari, not Chrome or in-app browsers.

Install "Send to LiftMonkey"

iOS opens the Shortcuts app, shows you the four steps the Shortcut runs, and asks you to confirm with Add Shortcut.

Use it

  1. Make sure you're signed in to LiftMonkey in Safari on the same device. The Shortcut opens the save URL in Safari and reuses your session cookie. If you aren't signed in, Safari sends you through sign-in and bounces you back to the save automatically — one extra tap, then it works.
  2. Find a video, photo, reel, or post you want to save. In any app — Safari, Twitter/X, Instagram, Photos, Messages — tap the system Share button.
  3. Scroll the share sheet's action row and tap Send to LiftMonkey. (First time only: tap Edit Actions at the bottom of the share sheet to pin it to the top so it's always one tap away.)
  4. Safari opens to the LiftMonkey status page. The extraction runs in the background; if you have a default cloud destination, the file routes there automatically. Otherwise tap Download when the page turns green.

Build it yourself

Prefer to build it from scratch instead of installing the published Shortcut? The recipe is four steps. Open Shortcuts.app on your iPhone or iPad and create a new Shortcut:

  1. Receive Safari Web Pages and URLs from Share Sheet. In the Shortcut's settings (the info icon at the top), enable Show in Share Sheet and set Share Sheet Types to Safari web pages and URLs. The dual type covers both raw URL shares (Twitter/X app, Photos) and Safari's richer web-page share. Set If there's no input to Continue.
  2. URL Encode the shared input. Add the URL Encode action and point it at Shortcut Input. This turns https://twitter.com/.../status/123?abc=def into a single URL-safe token.
  3. Combine with the save URL. Add a Text action with this content: 
    https://www.liftmonkey.app/save?url=[URL Encoded Text]
    Replace [URL Encoded Text] with a magic-variable reference to the URL Encode output from step 2. Shortcuts will visually wrap the URL in <> brackets — that's just UI sugar, the actual output doesn't include them.
  4. Open the Text. Add the Open URLs action (or simply Open, picking the Text output) with the result from step 3 as input. This launches Safari at the constructed save URL.

Name the Shortcut Send to LiftMonkey (or whatever you'd like to see in the share sheet) and save. It now appears on every share sheet for URL-type content.

Power-user options

The save URL accepts an optional use_proxy flag for callers on the Good tier or above. By default, LlamaDrop saves run as direct fetches (no metered proxy bandwidth). If a particular platform is consistently blocking your direct fetches, you can opt in to the residential proxy by changing the Text step to: 

https://liftmonkey.app/save?url=[Encoded URL]&use_proxy=1

The flag is silently ignored on the Free and visitor tiers, so adding it never hurts — it just won't do anything until you're on a tier that has proxy access.

Troubleshooting

"Send to LiftMonkey" doesn't appear in the share sheet.
Make sure the Shortcut has Show in Share Sheet enabled (info icon → toggle). Also check that you're sharing from an app that hands off URLs — some apps share text-only previews instead of the link itself.
It opens Safari but takes me to a sign-in page.
You're not signed in to LiftMonkey in Safari, or your session expired. Sign in once and Safari will reuse the cookie for every subsequent share.
The save URL opens but says "Please enter a URL."
The shared content didn't reach the Shortcut as a URL. Open the Shortcut, verify Share Sheet Types is set to URLs, and re-share from the source app.
It opens in Chrome / Firefox / an in-app browser instead of Safari.
iOS sends the Shortcut's Open URLs action to your default browser. Set Safari as the default in iOS Settings → Apps → Default Browser App, or accept that you'll need to be signed in to LiftMonkey in whatever browser you use.

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