How is it possible to access clipboard data on the Mac programmatically?
Apple has a Pasteboard Programming Guide the main class you are looking for is NSPasteboard
The example for reading strings is
NSPasteboard *pasteboard = <#Get a pasteboard#>;
NSArray *classes = [[NSArray alloc] initWithObjects:[NSString class], nil];
NSDictionary *options = [NSDictionary dictionary];
NSArray *copiedItems = [pasteboard readObjectsForClasses:classes options:options];
if (copiedItems != nil) {
// Do something with the contents...
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