How to Copy Files from the Clipboard to Your Computer Using Python?

To copy files from the clipboard to your computer using Python, you can use the pyperclip module to access the clipboard contents and the shutil module to copy the file to a destination directory. Here’s an example:

import pyperclip
import shutil

# Get the file path from the clipboard
file_path = pyperclip.paste()

# Replace 'destination_directory_path' with the path to the directory where you want to copy the file
destination_directory_path = 'path/to/destination/directory'

# Copy the file from the clipboard to the destination directory
shutil.copy(file_path, destination_directory_path)

In the above code, we first import the pyperclip and shutil modules. We then use the pyperclip.paste method to get the file path from the clipboard and store it in the file_path variable.

We specify the path to the directory where we want to copy the file (destination_directory_path). We use the shutil.copy method to copy the file from the clipboard to the destination directory. This method preserves the original file’s metadata, including its creation and modification times, and copies the file’s contents to a new file in the destination directory.

Note that the file path on the clipboard must be a valid path to a file on your computer, and you must have permission to read that file. If the clipboard contents are not a valid file path or if you do not have permission to read the file, the shutil.copy method will raise an exception.

Also note that this code assumes that the file on the clipboard is a single file. If the clipboard contents contain multiple files or a directory, you will need to modify the code accordingly to handle those cases.