Accessing Alternate Clipboard Formats From Python
Copying to the clipboard from an application that supports rich text will typically add the text in several formats. I need to find out the available formats, and then retrieve the
Solution 1:
It's quite straightforward on OS X with the help of the module richxerox, available on pypi. It requires system support including the Apple AppKit and Foundation modules. I had trouble building Objective C for Python 3, so that initially I had only gotten this to work for Python 2. Anaconda 3 comes with all the necessary pieces preinstalled, however.
Here's a demo that prints the available clipboard types, and then fetches and prints each one:
import richxerox as rx
# Dump formats
verbose = Trueif verbose:
print(rx.available(neat=False, dyn=True))
else:
print(rx.available())
# Dump contents in all formatsfor k, v in rx.pasteall(neat=False, dyn=True).items():
line = "\n*** "+k+": "+v
print(line)
Output:
(
"public.html",
"public.utf8-plain-text"
)
*** public.html: <html><head><metahttp-equiv="content-type"content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body><ahref="http://coffeeghost.net/2010/10/09/pyperclip-a-cross-platform-clipboard-module-for-python/"
>pyperclip</a>: Looks interesting</body></html>
*** public.utf8-plain-text: pyperclip: Looks interesting
To print in a desired format with fall-back to text, you could use this:
paste_format = "rtf"
content = rx.paste(paste_format)
if not content:
content = rx.paste("text")
Or you could first check if a format is available:
if"public.rtf"in rx.available():
content = rx.paste("rtf")
else:
content = rx.paste("text")
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