I'm trying to automate some actions in a browser or a word processor with pyautogui module for Python 3 (Windows 10).
There is a highlighted text in a browser.
text
the following script should print the highlighted text
import pyautogui as pya
# double clicks on a position of the cursor
pya.doubleClick(pya.position())
list = []
# a function copy_clipboard() should be called here
var = copy_clipboard()
list.append(var)
print(list)
The output should be:
[text]
So how should the function copy_clipboard()
look like?
Thank you for your help.
The keyboard combo Ctrl+C handles copying what is highlighted in most apps, and should work fine for you. This part is easy with pyautogui
. For getting the clipboard contents programmatically, as others have mentioned, you could implement it using ctypes
, pywin32
, or other libraries. Here I've chosen pyperclip
:
import pyautogui as pya
import pyperclip # handy cross-platform clipboard text handler
import time
def copy_clipboard():
pya.hotkey('ctrl', 'c')
time.sleep(.01) # ctrl-c is usually very fast but your program may execute faster
return pyperclip.paste()
# double clicks on a position of the cursor
pya.doubleClick(pya.position())
list = []
var = copy_clipboard()
list.append(var)
print(list)
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