fix-emails: change emails in the macOS clipboard to/from Apple Mail/Outlook

fix-emails

#!/usr/bin/python
#
# Run `fix-emails` to change the format of emails in the macOS
# clipboard from Apple Mail to Outlook or vice versa.
#
# You can't copy/paste emails between them by default because their
# formats are different.
#
# Apple mail emails are comma-separated and always use quotes:
#     "Last, First" <name@gmail.com>, ...
#
# Outlook emails are semicolon-separated and don't use quotes:
#     Last, First <name@gmail.com>; ...
#
# This script gets the contents of the clipboard, translates them, and
# replaces them with the translated emails. It also prints out
# what it did.
#

from __future__ import print_function

import re
import sys

from AppKit import NSArray, NSPasteboard, NSStringPboardType

email_re = (
    r'(?![;, ])'               # don't match initial [;, ]
    r'(?:"([^"]*)"|([^<>]*))'  # Apple email name or Outlook email name
    r' <([^>]*@[^>]*)>'        # email address in angle brackets
)


def parse_emails(string):
    emails = re.findall(email_re, string)
    return emails


def main():
    pb = NSPasteboard.generalPasteboard()
    pbstring = pb.stringForType_(NSStringPboardType)

    emails = parse_emails(pbstring)
    if not emails:
        print("Clipboard contains no emails.")
        return 1

    if emails[0][0]:
        print("From Apple Mail:")
        print(pbstring)
        print()
        print("To Outlook:")
        emails = ['%s <%s>' % (name, email) for name, _, email in emails]
        new_string = "; ".join(emails)

    else:
        print("From Outlook:")
        print(pbstring)
        print()
        print("To Apple Mail:")
        emails = ['"%s" <%s>' % (name, email) for _, name, email in emails]
        new_string = ", ".join(emails)

    print(new_string)

    pb.clearContents()
    pb_arr = NSArray.arrayWithObject_(new_string)
    pb.writeObjects_(pb_arr)

    return 0


if __name__ == "__main__":
    sys.exit(main())