Track clipboard and save the clipboard content to a file

clipboardtrack.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Change file location to your preferred path
filelocation="$HOME/Notes/bookamarks.txt"
# Thanks to https://stackoverflow.com/a/3184819
regex='^(https?|ftp|file)://[-A-Za-z0-9\+&@#/%?=~_|!:,.;]*[-A-Za-z0-9\+&@#/%=~_|]$'

while clipnotify; do
	text=$(xclip -o)
	if [[ $(xclip -o) ]];then
		if [[ $text =~ $regex ]];then
			xclip -o >> $filelocation 
			echo "" >> $filelocation 
		fi
	fi
done

My main gola for this is to only save the copied urls to a file so that I can later bulk import the bookmarks.

Prerequisite:
clipnotify

TODO:

• Make a systemd file maybe to always run after login
• Maybe save only the unique urls
• timestamp the files