clipboardy

Access the system clipboard (copy/paste)

Cross-platform. Supports: macOS, Windows, Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Android with Termux, modern browsers.

Install

$ npm install clipboardy

const clipboardy = require('clipboardy');

clipboardy.writeSync('????');

clipboardy.readSync();
//=> '????'

Write (copy) to the clipboard asynchronously. Returns a Promise.

Type: string

The text to write to the clipboard.

Read (paste) from the clipboard asynchronously. Returns a Promise.

Write (copy) to the clipboard synchronously.

Doesn't work in browsers.

Type: string

The text to write to the clipboard.

Read (paste) from the clipboard synchronously.

Doesn't work in browsers.

The Linux binary is just a bundled version of xsel. The source for the Windows binary can be found here.