capture clipboard

about-the-use-case.md

Use case for this

I am trying to stop the headache of copying an affiliate link to the clipboard as a markdown formatted link, with some text appended to it in espanso.

I've spent wayyyyy too much time fiddling with this, trying to understand what pyperclip actually does because the logic of how it works is illogical when you consider what copy and paste actually mean/do.

Fortunately, I think I can accomplish this with Raycast or Arc Browser's Copy Markdown Link. Or a plethora of browser extensions.

Still, was a fun exercise.

markdown_affiliate_link.py

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import pyperclip

soup = BeautifulSoup()

url = ""
r = requests.get(url)

amazon_link_title = soup.title.string

affiliatelink = pyperclip.paste(f'{[amazon_link_title]}{(r)}')

print(affiliatelink)