clipable

clipable converts spreadsheet data from your clipboard into a Markdown table — instantly.

Copy cells from Excel, Google Sheets, or any CSV/TSV source, run clipable, and the Markdown table is already in your clipboard, ready to paste into any document or wiki.

Why clipable?

Manually converting spreadsheet data to Markdown tables is tedious. clipable eliminates that entirely.

With watch mode, you don't even run a command — just copy cells from a spreadsheet and the clipboard is automatically converted. The flow becomes simply: copy → paste.

Install

pip install clipable

With uv:

uv tool install clipable

Usage

Watch mode (recommended)

Start the watcher once in a terminal. After that, every time you copy cells from a spreadsheet the clipboard is silently converted to Markdown in the background.

clipable watch

╭─────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ clipable watch — watching clipboard                 │
│ Copy cells from a spreadsheet and they will be      │
│ auto-converted to Markdown.                         │
│ Ctrl+C to stop                                      │
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

✓ Detected TSV — converted to Markdown and updated clipboard
╭─ Markdown ──────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ | Name  | Age | Department  |                       │
│ | ----- | --- | ----------- |                       │
│ | Alice | 30  | Engineering |                       │
│ | Bob   | 25  | Design      |                       │
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

One-shot conversion

Copy cells from a spreadsheet, then run:

clipable

The clipboard is replaced with the Markdown table and printed to the terminal for confirmation.

Options

For clipable watch:

Format auto-detection

clipable automatically detects whether your clipboard contains TSV (tab-separated) or CSV (comma-separated) data. Use -f to override when needed.

Example output

Input (copied from Google Sheets):

Name	Age	Department
Alice	30	Engineering
Bob	25	Design

Output (Markdown, written back to clipboard):

| Name  | Age | Department  |
| ----- | --- | ----------- |
| Alice | 30  | Engineering |
| Bob   | 25  | Design      |

License

MIT