@tauri-apps/plugin-clipboard-manager

Read and write to the system clipboard.

Functions

clear()

function clear(): Promise<void>

Clears the clipboard.

Platform-specific

• Android: Only supported on SDK 28+. For older releases we write an empty string to the clipboard instead.

Returns

Promise<void>

Example

import { clear } from '@tauri-apps/plugin-clipboard-manager';await clear();

Since

2.0.0

Source: https://github.com/tauri-apps/plugins-workspace/blob/v2/plugins/clipboard-manager/guest-js/index.ts#L147

readImage()

function readImage(): Promise<Image>

Gets the clipboard content as Uint8Array image.

Platform-specific

• Android / iOS: Not supported.

Returns

Promise<Image>

Example

import { readImage } from '@tauri-apps/plugin-clipboard-manager';
const clipboardImage = await readImage();const blob = new Blob([await clipboardImage.rgba()], { type: 'image' })const url = URL.createObjectURL(blob)

Since

2.0.0

Source: https://github.com/tauri-apps/plugins-workspace/blob/v2/plugins/clipboard-manager/guest-js/index.ts#L99

readText()

function readText(): Promise<string>

Gets the clipboard content as plain text.

Returns

Promise<string>

Example

import { readText } from '@tauri-apps/plugin-clipboard-manager';const clipboardText = await readText();

Since

2.0.0

Source: https://github.com/tauri-apps/plugins-workspace/blob/v2/plugins/clipboard-manager/guest-js/index.ts#L46

writeHtml()

function writeHtml(html, altText?): Promise<void>

• Writes HTML or fallbacks to write provided plain text to the clipboard.

Platform-specific

• Android / iOS: Not supported.

Parameters

Returns

Promise<void>

A promise indicating the success or failure of the operation.

Example

import { writeHtml } from '@tauri-apps/plugin-clipboard-manager';await writeHtml('<h1>Tauri is awesome!</h1>', 'plaintext');// The following will write "<h1>Tauri is awesome</h1>" as plain textawait writeHtml('<h1>Tauri is awesome!</h1>', '<h1>Tauri is awesome</h1>');// we can read html data only as a string so there's just readText(), no readHtml()assert(await readText(), '<h1>Tauri is awesome!</h1>');

Since

2.0.0

Source: https://github.com/tauri-apps/plugins-workspace/blob/v2/plugins/clipboard-manager/guest-js/index.ts#L126

writeImage()

function writeImage(image): Promise<void>

Writes image buffer to the clipboard.

Platform-specific

• Android / iOS: Not supported.

Parameters

Returns

Promise<void>

A promise indicating the success or failure of the operation.

Example

import { writeImage } from '@tauri-apps/plugin-clipboard-manager';const buffer = [  // A red pixel  255, 0, 0, 255,
 // A green pixel  0, 255, 0, 255,];await writeImage(buffer);

Since

2.0.0

Source: https://github.com/tauri-apps/plugins-workspace/blob/v2/plugins/clipboard-manager/guest-js/index.ts#L74

writeText()

function writeText(text, opts?): Promise<void>

Writes plain text to the clipboard.

Parameters

Returns

Promise<void>

A promise indicating the success or failure of the operation.

Example

import { writeText, readText } from '@tauri-apps/plugin-clipboard-manager';await writeText('Tauri is awesome!');assert(await readText(), 'Tauri is awesome!');

Since

2.0.0

Source: https://github.com/tauri-apps/plugins-workspace/blob/v2/plugins/clipboard-manager/guest-js/index.ts#L27

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Last updated Oct 08, 2026