Universal Clipboard

Universal clipboard is useful when you want to copy something(preferrably plaintext) from one device to another. It works for any OS. Currently it only supports plaintext.

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Curated Features

• Copy plaintext from one device to another
• Copy images/files from one device to another
• Work outside localnetwork

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Installation & Usage

Setup the virtual environment

Python version: 3.10 is recommended.

virtualenv venv --python=python3.10

Source the virtual environment:

source venv/bin/activate

Install the dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

Run the server

python server.py

Update the ip address of the server

Update the below line inside the universal_clipboard.py file:

sio.connect('ws://<server_ip>:5007')  # Update the ip address of the server

Run the client

python universal_clipboard.py

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Contributing

All contributions are welcome. See the curated list above for ideas. If you have an idea, please open an issue or pull request.