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It's not necessary coding work for someone who intends to use the project themselves and can run tail -f /var/some-log-from-a-clipboard-daemon | grep big-t

by strken 5y ago

It's not necessary coding work for someone who intends to use the project themselves and can run tail -f /var/some-log-from-a-clipboard-daemon | grep big-tld-regex They asked for a project idea and he gave them a product idea.

forgotmypw17 5y ago
I would be quite happy with this, actually. I wouldn't even bother with the tld regex and just settle for "http" The part I'm missing is what to tail?
- tremon 5y ago
  There is nothing to tail, because (FAFAIK) there are no clipboard events in Linux (well, in X). The best you can do is poll xclip every X ms, so you'd get: while sleep .2 ; do xclip -o ; done | uniq | grep -E 'https?:' but that is pretty wasteful of resources. Luckily processes are cheap on Linux :)
  - forgotmypw17 5y ago
    Thank you! I can't imagine myself clipping something more than once 5-10 seconds, so I can set the interval to that. I want to take this moment to remind you that the Web includes http, not just https, and ignoring it is a failure at accessibility and compatibility. For myself a week from now looking for this, here is the version which works for me: while true; do xclip -o | uniq | grep ^http > ~/url.txt ; sleep 5; done Thank you again, this will make my life much easier.
- pbhjpbhj 5y ago
  Plasma/KDE's Klipper clipboard app has Actions that will do this, fwiw. http://linux-blog.org/make-klipper-work-for-you/ http://linux-blog.org/make-klipper-work-for-you/. You could probably do it very simply by remapping ctrl+c depending on your DE.
mike_hock 5y ago
import pyperclip import re url_regex = re.compile('^(ftp|https?)') while True: text = pyperclip.waitForNewPaste() if url_regex.match(text): print(text) Seems like a clean, blocking API. I peeked at the source code. It's polling at 10ms intervals under the hood. ... LOL.

by strken 5y ago

forgotmypw17 5y ago

I would be quite happy with this, actually. I wouldn't even bother with the tld regex and just settle for "http" The part I'm missing is what to tail?

tremon 5y ago
There is nothing to tail, because (FAFAIK) there are no clipboard events in Linux (well, in X). The best you can do is poll xclip every X ms, so you'd get: while sleep .2 ; do xclip -o ; done | uniq | grep -E 'https?:' but that is pretty wasteful of resources. Luckily processes are cheap on Linux :)
- forgotmypw17 5y ago
  Thank you! I can't imagine myself clipping something more than once 5-10 seconds, so I can set the interval to that. I want to take this moment to remind you that the Web includes http, not just https, and ignoring it is a failure at accessibility and compatibility. For myself a week from now looking for this, here is the version which works for me: while true; do xclip -o | uniq | grep ^http > ~/url.txt ; sleep 5; done Thank you again, this will make my life much easier.
pbhjpbhj 5y ago
Plasma/KDE's Klipper clipboard app has Actions that will do this, fwiw. http://linux-blog.org/make-klipper-work-for-you/ http://linux-blog.org/make-klipper-work-for-you/. You could probably do it very simply by remapping ctrl+c depending on your DE.

mike_hock 5y ago

import pyperclip import re url_regex = re.compile('^(ftp|https?)') while True: text = pyperclip.waitForNewPaste() if url_regex.match(text): print(text) Seems like a clean, blocking API. I peeked at the source code. It's polling at 10ms intervals under the hood. ... LOL.