windows-file-clipboard v0.3.0

windows-file-clipboard

windows-file-clipboard is a NodeJS module, that allows to read the paths written in the clipboard, and to write paths in the clipboard.

This module is for Windows only.

Getting Started

Install it via npm:

npm install windows-file-clipboard

It may require windows build tools, or Microsoft Visual Studio to compile the native C++ code needed.

const windowsClipboard = require('windows-file-clipboard')

windowsClipbard.writePaths([
  'The\\First\\Path',
  'Path\\To\\a.file'
])

// Ctrl+V in the Windows explorer should paste these files/directory

var paths = windowsClipboard.readPaths()

// paths should contains ['The\\First\\Path', 'Path\\To\\a.file'],
// or the names of the files copied from the explorer

windowsClipboard.emptyPaths()
// To remove all paths from the clipboard

Contribute

I'm not an expert in Windows, nor C++ nor NodeJS, so please feel free to add issues, to improve this module.