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:

``bash
$ npx pb [type]
$ npx pb -m
`

To set a specific pasteboard, pipe data into pb:

`bash
$ get_data | npx pb -s [type]
`

To list available pasteboards:

`bash
$ npx pb -l
`

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

`bash
$ 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:

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

Supported Pasteboards

| type | description |
|:---------------------|:------------|
| NSStringPboardType | plaintext |
| NSHTMLPboardType | HTML |
| NSRTFPboardType` | RTF |

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.