clipboard
clipboard
Perform copy and paste operations on the system clipboard.
The following example shows how to write a string to the clipboard:
const {clipboard} = require('electron') clipboard.writeText('Example String')
On X Window systems, there is also a selection clipboard. To manipulate it you need to pass selection
to each method:
const {clipboard} = require('electron') clipboard.writeText('Example String', 'selection') console.log(clipboard.readText('selection'))
Methods
The clipboard
module has the following methods:
Note: Experimental APIs are marked as such and could be removed in future.