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Is there a way you can copy to clipboard in Node.js? Any modules or ideas what so ever? I'm using Node.js on a desktop application. Hopefully that clears up why I want it to be able to achieve this.
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Like many of the other answer mentioned, to copy and paste in node you need to call out to an external program. In the case of node-copy-paste , it calls out to pbcopy/pbpaste (for OSX), xclip (for linux), and clip (for windows).
A command line utility that allows read/write (i.e copy/paste) access to the system clipboard. It does this by wrapping pbcopy/pbpaste (for OSX), xclip (for Linux and OpenBSD), and clip (for Windows). Currently works with node.
Select the first item that you want to copy, and press CTRL+C. Continue copying items from the same or other files until you have collected all of the items that you want. The Office Clipboard can hold up to 24 items.
Updated: 05/03/2022 by Computer Hope. The clipboard, also known as pasteboard, is a particular location on a computer, phone, or tablet memory that temporarily stores cut or copied text or other data. Once something is stored in the clipboard, it can be pasted to a new location.
For OS X:
function pbcopy(data) {
var proc = require('child_process').spawn('pbcopy');
proc.stdin.write(data); proc.stdin.end();
}
write() can take a buffer or a string. The default encoding for a string will be utf-8.
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Check out clipboardy. It lets you copy/paste cross-platform. It is more actively maintained than the copy-paste module mentioned in another answer and it fixes many of that module's issues.
const clipboardy = require('clipboardy');
// Copy
clipboardy.writeSync('🦄');
// Paste
clipboardy.readSync();
//🦄
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