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How can rich text or HTML source code be obtained from the X clipboard? For example, if you copy some text from a web browser and paste it into kompozer, it pastes as HTML, with links etc. preserved. However, xclip -o for the same selection just outputs plain text. I'd like to pull the HTML out and into a text editor.
intuited
Posted 2010-05-22T21:35:43.067
Reputation: 2 861
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With some help from the answer to the stackoverflow.com fork of this question, I built a ghetto command-line client to pull this info.
clipcli [-h] [-f FILE] [-d] [-l] [TARGET]
positional arguments:
TARGET display the contents of this target
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-d, --debug enable debug tracing
-f FILE, --file FILE the file to which output will be directed
-l, --list list available targets
$ clipcli text/html
some text with <em>emphasis</em>
The way this works, even the availability of different targets, seems to depend a lot on the application which is providing the clipboard data. There's a bit more info at the stackoverflow question.
intuited
Posted 2010-05-22T21:35:43.067
Reputation: 2 861
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Does xclip -o -selection secondary or xclip -o -selection clipboard work for you?
These could be abbreviated to
xclip -o -se s
and
xclip -o -se c
Paused until further notice.
Posted 2010-05-22T21:35:43.067
Reputation: 86 075
No, that still gives a textual rendering of the page rather than the HTML source. – intuited – 2010-05-23T02:27:57.203
It does appear to obtain the HTML source itself: things like the class properties of <div> elements are preserved. – intuited – 2010-05-23T03:08:10.243
improve the title of your question to match what you really want: the source code of the website / rich text... – akira – 2010-07-06T10:42:07.143
@akira: Thanks for your suggestion. It would have been more polite to phrase it as such. – intuited – 2010-07-06T15:12:52.333
not polite, just more to the point :) – akira – 2010-07-06T18:39:32.670