Copy from clipboard using Python and Tkinter



To copy from clipboard, we can use the clipboard_get() method of Tkinter. Let's take an example and see how to get the data from the clipboard and display it on a Tkinter window.

Steps −

  • Import the tkinter library and create an instance of tkinter frame.

  • Set the size of the frame using geometry method.

  • Next, call clipboard_get() to get the text from the clipboard and store the data in a variable "cliptext".

  • Create a label to the display the clipboard text. Pass cliptext as text, "text=cliptext".

  • Finally, run the mainloop of the application window.

Example

# Import the tkinter library from tkinter import * # Instance of tkinter canvas win = Tk() win.geometry("700x250") win.title("Data from Clipboard") # Get the data from the clipboard cliptext = win.clipboard_get() # Label to print clipboard text lab=Label(win, text = cliptext, font=("Calibri",15,"bold")) lab.pack(padx=20, pady=50) # Run the mainloop win.mainloop()

Output

It will produce the following output −

It will display the contents of the clipboard on the window.

Updated on: 2021-10-26T13:40:07+05:30

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