pb

Improved pbcopy/pbpaste for OSX

The standard pbcopy and pbpaste utilities can manipulate the plaintext clipboard but have no easy way of accessing the HTML pasteboard. This module and CLI tool provide a more convenient way to access the pasteboard from node.

Command-Line Tool Usage

To get data from a specific pasteboard:

$ npx pb [type]
$ npx pb -m <type>

To set a specific pasteboard, pipe data into pb:

$ get_data | npx pb -s [type]

To list available pasteboards:

$ npx pb -l

For example, to grab the contents of the HTML pasteboard and put it on the plaintext pasteboard:

$ npx pb -m html | npx pb -s

Library Usage

From node, pb exposes:

• get(type): get pasteboard data from specified pasteboard
• set(type, data): set pasteboard data (overwrites other pasteboards)
• available(): enumerate available pasteboards

This example gets the pasteboard HTML data and copies to plaintext pasteboard:

var pb = require('pb');
var HTMLOutput = pb.get('html');
pb.set('text', HTMLOutput);

Supported Pasteboards

License

Please consult the attached LICENSE file for details. All rights not explicitly granted by the Apache 2.0 license are reserved by the Original Author.