https://github.com/zyedidia/clipper

Cross-platform clipboard access in Go
https://github.com/zyedidia/clipper

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Cross-platform clipboard access in Go

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/zyedidia/clipper
• Owner: zyedidia
• License: mit
• Created: 2022-06-13T14:23:45.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-11-06T01:30:25.000Z (about 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-14T00:39:53.624Z (9 months ago)
• Language: Go
• Size: 18.6 KB
• Stars: 11
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 5
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Clipper: cross-platform clipboard library

[![Go Reference](https://pkg.go.dev/badge/github.com/zyedidia/clipper.svg)](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/zyedidia/clipper)

[![MIT License](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-blue.svg)](https://github.com/zyedidia/clipper/blob/master/LICENSE)

Platforms supported:

* Linux (via `xclip` or `xsel` or `wl-copy`/`wl-paste`)

* MacOS (via `pbcopy`/`pbpaste`)

* Windows (via the Windows clipboard API)

* WSL (via `clip.exe`/`powershell.exe`)

* Android Termux (via `termux-clipboard-set`/`termux-clipboard-get`)

* Plan9 (via `/dev/snarf`)

* Anything else (via a user-defined script)

Fallback methods:

* Internal in-memory clipboard

* File-based clipboard

# Example

```

func main() {

    clip, err := clipper.GetClipboard(clipper.Clipboards...)

    must(err)

    // copy from stdin

    data, err := io.ReadAll(os.Stdin)

    must(err)

    err = clip.WriteAll(clipper.RegClipboard, data)

    must(err)

    // paste to stdout

    data, err := clip.ReadAll(clipper.RegClipboard)

    must(err)

    fmt.Print(string(data))

}

```

A CLI tool is provided as an example in `cmd/clipper`.