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I want to copy some rich text, modify its source code (changing some tags and text, using regex and/or beautifulsoup) and send it back to the clipboard. I'm looking for the easiest way to do that.

I tried win32clipboard, but it doesn't support the CF_HTML format (windows clipboard contains many formats).

So I'm looking for a module that could help me to get this format: if the CF_HTML clipboard format contains HTML, store it in that variable, do some operation, then send it back. (Optionally: and do other stuff on other clipboard formats)

Here is a Linux equivalent of what I'm looking for. It retrieves the HTML source, when there's some in the clipboard (source)

#!/usr/bin/env python
import gtk
print (gtk.Clipboard().wait_for_contents('text/html')).data

Edit1: There is a work around with pywin32 using this script. But is there a module able to do that directly (if CF_HTML contains data, get it, and send it back)?

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The Edit1 solution seems to be actually the best.

  1. put the script above (HtmlClipboard.py) in the python module folder: C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\Lib\site-packages
  2. install win32clipboard

  3. With the 2 points above you could play with a script like this:

    #get CF_Html Clipboard
import HtmlClipboard #.py script found in github
if HtmlClipboard.HasHtml():
    # print('there is HTML!!')
    dirty_HTML = HtmlClipboard.GetHtml()
    print(dirty_HTML)
else:
    print('no html')

dirty_HTML= clean_HTML #do what you want with it

#put data to clipboard:
HtmlClipboard.PutHtml(clean_HTML)

Bonus: 

##get CF_TEXT from clipboard
import win32clipboard
win32clipboard.OpenClipboard()
text = win32clipboard.GetClipboardData(win32clipboard.CF_TEXT)
win32clipboard.CloseClipboard()
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