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:clipboard: Access HTML and other pasteboards from JS and command line
https://github.com/sheetjs/pb
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:clipboard: Access HTML and other pasteboards from JS and command line
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/sheetjs/pb
- Owner: SheetJS
- License: apache-2.0
- Created: 2013-04-09T20:28:03.000Z (over 11 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2022-04-24T07:59:43.000Z (over 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-10-29T22:37:40.958Z (2 months ago)
- Topics: clipboard, copy-paste, osx, pasteboard, pbpaste
- Language: JavaScript
- Homepage: http://sheetjs.com
- Size: 15.6 KB
- Stars: 36
- Watchers: 6
- Forks: 2
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# pb
Improved pbcopy/pbpaste for OSX
The standard pbcopy and pbpaste utilities can manipulate the plaintext clipboard
but have no easy way of accessing the HTML pasteboard. This module and CLI tool
provide a more convenient way to access the pasteboard from node.
## Command-Line Tool Usage
To get data from a specific pasteboard:
```bash
$ npx pb [type]
$ npx pb -m
```
To set a specific pasteboard, pipe data into pb:
```bash
$ get_data | npx pb -s [type]
```
To list available pasteboards:
```bash
$ npx pb -l
```
For example, to grab the contents of the HTML pasteboard and put it on the
plaintext pasteboard:
```bash
$ npx pb -m html | npx pb -s
```
## Library Usage
From node, `pb` exposes:
- `get(type)`: get pasteboard data from specified pasteboard
- `set(type, data)`: set pasteboard data (overwrites other pasteboards)
- `available()`: enumerate available pasteboards
This example gets the pasteboard HTML data and copies to plaintext pasteboard:
```js
var pb = require('pb');
var HTMLOutput = pb.get('html');
pb.set('text', HTMLOutput);
```
## Supported Pasteboards
| type | description |
|:---------------------|:------------|
| `NSStringPboardType` | plaintext |
| `NSHTMLPboardType` | HTML |
| `NSRTFPboardType` | RTF |
## License
Please consult the attached LICENSE file for details. All rights not explicitly
granted by the Apache 2.0 license are reserved by the Original Author.
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