pasteboard2 0.0.6

access macOS pasteboard

Pasteboard2

Pasteboard2 is a simple Python module and command line tool to get content and its types from the macOS pasteboard (clipboard). The implementation relies on PyObjC and is modeled after the Swift program pbv.

Command Line Usage

Top Level

 Usage: pb2 [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

╭─ Options ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ --help          Show this message and exit.                                        │
╰────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
╭─ Commands ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ clear            Empties the pasteboard.                                           │
│ clip             Print the content of the pasteboard if it's a string.             │
│ types            List the content types of the current pasteboard.                 │
│ version          Outputs the version number.                                       │
╰────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

Clip Subcommand

 Usage: pb2 clip [OPTIONS]

 Print the content of the pasteboard if it's a string.

╭─ Options ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ --type  -t      TEXT  The type of content to get [default: public.utf8-plain-text] │
│ --help                Show this message and exit.                                  │
╰────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

Test

git clone https://github.com/bwagner/pasteboard2.git
cd pasteboard2
python -m venv ~/venv/pb2
source ~/venv/pb2/bin/activate
python -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel
pip install -r requirements.txt
pytest
deactivate
rm -rf ~/venv/pb2

TODO

pbv offers reading from several pasteboards. We should, too.

Requirements

• pyobjc
• typer
• pytest (for development)

Contribute

git clone https://github.com/bwagner/pasteboard2.git
cd pasteboard2
source ~/venv/pb2/bin/activate
python -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel
pip install -r requirements.txt
pre-commit install

Alternatives

• https://pypi.org/project/pasteboard/
  https://github.com/tobywf/pasteboard
  but it's no longer maintained (checked 20230710)

• https://pypi.org/project/tacky/
  https://github.com/friedenberg/tacky