Dot-clipboard – Monitor your clipboard and run scripts based on its content

Klipper of kde has had configurable actions for ages.

I've always found it to be too intrusive and I've kept it disabled.

It may have a somewhat different focus (extensive and quickly accessible clipboard history), but you might find Ditto (Windows) interesting to have a look at.

http://ditto-cp.sourceforge.net/

I've missed having something similar on this Ubuntu machine I'm using. I'll have a look at CopyQ when my time frees up.

P.S. I seem to recall reading that Ditto allowed at least some level of hooking/triggering based upon content, but I never used it and I may be mis-remembering.

Hopefully there is some consideration (somehow) for not monitoring the many passwords and passphrases that flow through clipboards. I took a quick look, but couldn't find acknowledgment.

Maybe we need a secure clipboard that guarantees (again, somehow) purging 1) immediately after a paste, and 2) after a specified time period such as 30 seconds.

It may be worth adding a section to your readme with the dependencies you use / how it works.

I had a look at the code because I was curious about how Javascript could interact with the clipboard. I can see that you use "clipboard-watcher" which in turn uses "NodObjC" - which also explains why this is OSX only.

The "dot" part is a bit confusing, at first I thought it was something in dotnet.