electron/docs/api/clipboard.md

clipboard

The clipboard provides methods to do copy/paste operations. An example of writing a string to clipboard:

var clipboard = require('clipboard');
clipboard.writeText('Example String');

On X Window systems, there is also a selection clipboard, to manipulate in it you need to pass selection to each method:

var clipboard = require('clipboard');
clipboard.writeText('Example String', 'selection');
console.log(clipboard.readText('selection'));

clipboard.readText([type])

• type String

Returns the content in clipboard as plain text.

clipboard.writeText(text[, type])

• text String
• type String

Writes the text into clipboard as plain text.

clipboard.readImage([type])

• type String

Returns the content in clipboard as NativeImage.

clipboard.writeImage(image[, type])

• image NativeImage
• type String

Writes the image into clipboard.

clipboard.clear([type])

• type String

Clears everything in clipboard.

clipboard.has(format[, type])

• format String
• type String

Returns whether clipboard has data in specified format.

Note: This API is experimental and could be removed in future.

clipboard.read(format[, type])

• format String
• type String

Reads the data in clipboard of the format.

Note: This API is experimental and could be removed in future.