I want to save the value 'final' (what I am logging to the console) to the clipboard every time it is updated. I have looked into clipboard.js but cannot find an example of where they didn't use HTML. In all the examples I've seen they press a button in order to do it but I need it to be automatically copied without any HTML. I tried using navigator.clipboard.writeText() but it gave me an error regarding promises and I'm not too sure how to resolve it or if there is a better solution.
const puppeteer = require("puppeteer");
const url = "https://www.google.com/";
async function StartScraping() {
await puppeteer
.launch({
headless: false,
})
.then(async (browser) => {
const page = await browser.newPage();
await page.setViewport({
width: 2000,
height: 800,
});
page.on("response", async (response) => {
if (response.url().includes("Example")) {
const location = await response.text()
let ping1= location.indexOf("Follow:")
const final = location.substring(ping1, ping1+ 10)
console.log(final);
//Copy 'final' to clipboard here
}
});
await page.goto(url, {
waitUntil: "load",
timeout: 0,
});
});
}
StartScraping();
Yes, you can do this.
You don't need any libraries, you can just do this with one line of code.
navigator.clipboard.writeText("text");
I put it in a function:
function copyText(a){ navigator.clipboard.writeText(a); } copyText("text");
This example uses a button (to execute the function):
function copyText(a) {
navigator.clipboard.writeText(a);
}<h1>Copy text on button click</h1>
<p>Copy text without a form input or any extra js libraries</p>
<button onclick="copyText('Hello World!');">Copy</button>It doesn't work in this snippet, but if you put it into jsfiddle or a w3schools tryit page, it would work.