In Electron Framework, Can I access clipboard?

Question

I am new to Electron framework, I wanna know does it have access to native resources like - Clipboard - Keypress (not on my web page, globally. Like a keyboard hook on windows)

score 13 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 26 '20 at 10:11

I believe what you are looking for is in the clipboard API.

There is also a global shortcut API. Check out this SO answer where I gave an example of how it works.

Here is an example of some basic read/write operations using the clipboard API:

const {clipboard} = require('electron');
clipboard.writeText('Example String');
let clipboardStr = clipboard.readText();

The 'Example String' is the text you would add to the clipboard.

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 28 '16 at 13:05

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const {clipboard} = require('electron')
clipboard.writeText('Example String', 'selection')
console.log(clipboard.readText('selection'))

answered Sep 28 '16 at 13:05

Oded Breiner

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Note that this uses the Linux-specific 'selection' clipboard instead of the 'normal' one (that exists on all OSes). Remove 'selection' in the two calls (or replace it with 'clipboard') to use the default clipboard. – JW. Jul 25 '20 at 20:15

In Electron Framework, Can I access clipboard?

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