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I need to use pyperclip on heroku on a selenium app to copy something to clipboard but as the platform runs a 'headless' browser and has no GUI, a clipboard is obscure. is it possible for me to make this work somehow?

Manbust
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    I don't know about pyperclip, but for me, copying stuff from a headless browser does not present any real issues when using selenium – C. Peck May 30 '21 at 20:15
  • do you really need clipboard? Can't you save in file and later read from file? maybe better describe why you need clipboard - maybe someone find method to do this without clipboard. – furas May 30 '21 at 22:05
  • @C.Peck how do you do it sir? i only know to copy with pyperclip – Manbust May 31 '21 at 04:40
  • @furas yeah its because i need to send_keys() a large body of text and sending it as a string takes too long. also i tried executescript but my the text box is weird. its the code text box on diffchecker.com and i don't know how to access its value attribute. seems like it is sectioned out line by line edit: send_keys (string) takes too long so i want to use send_keys(Keys.CONTROL, 'v') – Manbust May 31 '21 at 04:43
  • you should write it in question at start - it better explain problem. – furas May 31 '21 at 04:50

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Selenium can press ctrl + c to copy.

To copy using python and Selenium, you can use the following code:

from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains

actions = ActionChains(driver)

actions.key_down(Keys.CONTROL)

actions.send_keys("c")

actions.key_up(Keys.CONTROL)

actions.perform()
C. Peck
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  • i think this will work if i upload my files somewhere to scrape from. i need to copy a string already present in my code to clipboard and then paste into diffchecker.com. thank u – Manbust May 31 '21 at 22:02