CloudClip

Your own clipboard in the cloud, copy and paste text with gist. Inspired by pbcopy/pbpaste from Mac OS X.

Tutorial

Copy text on a remote system to the cloud:

echo "Hello, Cloud Clipboard" | cloudclip -c

Paste on a local system from the cloud:

cloudclip -p

And you will see the text coppied from the remote system:

Hello, Cloud Clipboard

Same access token and gist id must be setup before copy/paste, see below

Installation

Clone the repository from github:

git clone https://github.com/skywind3000/CloudClip.git

Add repository path to your $PATH:

For linux, add these line at the bottom of your .bashrc:

export PATH="/path-to-cloud-clip:$PATH"

For Windows:

Manully setup the PATH in your control panel.

Documentation

usage: python cloudclip.py [...] operations:

-i <token> [id]  Initialize token and id, create a new gist if id is empty
-c [name]      Takes the standard input and places it in the cloud
-p [name]      Read content from cloud and output to standard output
-l             List information of the gist
-e             Clean the clipboard

A github access token is needed before everything, you can generate a new one from: https://github.com/settings/tokens

Create a new gist with "-i token" on your own PC, remember the gist id. then use "-i token id" on a remote one which you may exchange data with.

Aliases

For convenience, two aliases can be created:

alias cloudcopy='python /path/to/cloudclip.py -c'
alias cloudpaste='python /path/to/cloudclip.py -p'

Requirement

Python 2
requests

Install requests with pip:

pip install requests

Credit

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