philiprehberger-clipboard 0.1.6

Cross-platform clipboard copy and paste in one function call

philiprehberger-clipboard

Cross-platform clipboard copy and paste in one function call.

Installation

pip install philiprehberger-clipboard

Usage

from philiprehberger_clipboard import copy, paste

copy("Hello, clipboard!")
text = paste()
print(text)  # Hello, clipboard!

CLI

Copy text from stdin:

echo "Hello" | python -m philiprehberger_clipboard copy

Paste clipboard contents to stdout:

python -m philiprehberger_clipboard paste

Or use the installed script:

echo "Hello" | clipboard copy
clipboard paste

API

Function	Description
copy(text: str) -> None	Copy a string to the system clipboard
paste() -> str	Read a string from the system clipboard
ClipboardError	Raised when clipboard tool is unavailable or operation fails

Platform support

Platform	Copy	Paste
Windows	clip.exe	PowerShell Get-Clipboard
macOS	pbcopy	pbpaste
Linux (X11)	xclip or xsel	xclip or xsel
Linux (Wayland)	wl-copy	wl-paste

Development

pip install -e .
python -m pytest tests/ -v

License

MIT