Interacting with system’s clipboard

You can access your system’s clipboard using tkinter library.

import tkinter as tk

root = tk.Tk()
root.withdraw()

Now you can have access to your systems clipboard. Just copy some text to your clipboard then you can retrieve it like so:

txt = root.clipboard_get()

After you’re done with the process, you should close the access as follows:

root.destroy()

This only works for Linux-based systems, if you use MacOS or Windows you have to use another approach. You can find more info here.