donpark / clipboard-mac

macOS clipboard command-line tool

command line clipboard tool for macOS

Usage Example

Starting with a Sketch file below with avatar object selected:

Copying to clipboard and running

clipboard list

should output

	["com.bohemiancoding.sketch.v3", "com.adobe.pdf", "Apple PDF pasteboard type",
	"public.tiff", "NeXT TIFF v4.0 pasteboard type", "com.facebook.semaphore",
	"public.utf8-plain-text", "NSStringPboardType", "dyn.ah62d4rv4gu8y4y4xsv6023nukm10c6xenv61a3k",
	"MSStylePBoardType", "dyn.ah62d4rv4gu8y4y4ftb2g86xym72hk4ptr33zauxtqf3gkzd3sbwu",
	"MSExportOptionsPBoardType"]

Let's get PDF version of clipboard data since SVG version is not available:

clipboard get com.adobe.pdf > avatar-circled.pdf

Opening the output file avatar-circled.pdf shows:

Commands

list

Lists clipboard content types to standard output

clipboard list

get

Retrieve clipboard content of given type to standard output. Binary clipboard data is supported.

clipboard get {data-type}

TODO

• Windows and Linux versions
• Electron-compatible Node.js wrapper (done but not open sourced yet)
• Support watch mode to detect and send change event (via SSE or WebSockets).
• Protect passwords
• Add set, add, remove, clear commands
• Add copy and paste commands emulating pbcopy and pbpaste behavior
• Support input (-i) and output file (-o)
• Allow multi-type get and set using popular archive format (zip, gzip, and/or tar)