Watch the clipboard for URLs and open them in the browser (on Linux)

clipboard.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""
Watch the clipboard for URLs and open them in the browser (on Linux)
"""

import subprocess
import time

import pyperclip  # Requires xclip to be apt installed

PRIOR = ''
while True:
    # xsel/xclip functions support the 'primary' argument
    PASTE = pyperclip.determine_clipboard()[1]

    # Toggle the commented lines below to use primary/secondary clipboards
    CURRENT = PASTE(primary=True).strip().split()[0]
    # CURRENT = PASTE(primary=False).strip()

    if not PRIOR:
        PRIOR = CURRENT
    if PRIOR != CURRENT:
        print(CURRENT)
        PRIOR = CURRENT
        if CURRENT.startswith('http'):
            subprocess.call(["xdg-open", CURRENT],
                            stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL,
                            stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL)

    time.sleep(1)