See Pyperclip. Example (taken from Pyperclip site):
import pyperclip
pyperclip.copy('The text to be copied to the clipboard.')
spam = pyperclip.paste()
Also, see Xerox. But it appears to have more dependencies.
Answer from robert on Stack OverflowVideos
See Pyperclip. Example (taken from Pyperclip site):
import pyperclip
pyperclip.copy('The text to be copied to the clipboard.')
spam = pyperclip.paste()
Also, see Xerox. But it appears to have more dependencies.
On macOS, use subprocess.run to pipe your text to pbcopy:
import subprocess
data = "hello world"
subprocess.run("pbcopy", text=True, input=data)
It will copy "hello world" to the clipboard.
» pip install clipboard
What My Project Does
copykitten is a clipboard library with support for text and images and a simple API. It's built around Rust arboard library. Thanks to this, it's multiplatform and doesn't require any dependencies.
Target Audience
Developers building CLI/GUI/TUI applications. The library has beta status on PyPI, but the underlying Rust library is pretty stable, being used in commercial projects like Bitwarden and 1Password.
Comparison
There are lots of other clipboard libraries for Python: pyperclip, jaraco.clipboard, pyclip, just to name a few. However, most of them are not maintained for years and require the presence of additional libraries or tools in the operating system. copykitten doesn't suffer from these shortcomings.
A bit of history
Throughout my years with Python there were several times when I needed to use the clipboard in my applications and every time I had to fall back to some shaky methods like asking the end user to install xclip and calling subprocess.run. This never felt great.
Right now I'm making a multiplayer TUI game (maybe I’ll showcase it later too :) ), where users can copy join game codes into the clipboard to easily share it (much like Among Us). This is how I came to the idea of making such a library. I also wanted to try Rust for a long time, and so this all just clicked in my head instantly.
I had fun building it and definitely had some pain too and learned a bit of nitty-gritty details about how clipboards work in different operating systems. Now I hate Windows.
With this post I hope to gain some attention to the project so that I can receive feedback about the issues and maybe feature requests and spread the word that there's a modern, convenient alternative to the existing packages.
Feel free to try it out: https://github.com/Klavionik/copykitten
» pip install pyperclip