Swift CLI helper to retrieve pasteboard content by type.
This script retrieves HTML and text content from the pasteboard, encodes it to JSON and writes the result to STDOUT.
pboard.swift
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import Cocoa
struct Pboard: Codable {
var html: String
var text: String
}
var pb = Pboard(html: "", text: "")
// get contents of general pasteboard
let typeHtml = NSPasteboard.PasteboardType.html
let typeText = NSPasteboard.PasteboardType.string
if let s = NSPasteboard.general.string(forType:typeHtml) {
pb.html = s
}
if let s = NSPasteboard.general.string(forType:typeText) {
pb.text = s
}
// encode to JSON and print
let encoder = JSONEncoder()
let data = try encoder.encode(pb)
let string = String(data: data, encoding: .utf8)!
print(string)
Run with:
swift pboard.swift
Build with:
xcrun -sdk macosx swiftc pboard.swift -o pboard
