Skim the clipboard

Clipboard filtering with regular expression
What is Skim the clipboard?
Skim the clipboard is a powerful Chrome extension that enables you to filter text using regular expressions when copying or pasting. It provides a convenient way to improve your search queries, modify URLs, and customize clipboard content for various purposes.

Extension stats

Users: 68 ▲ 2
Rating: 2.67 (3)
Version: 0.1.11 (Last updated: 2023-03-15)
Creation date: 2018-02-15
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • storage
  • contextMenus
  • activeTab
  • clipboardRead
  • clipboardWrite
Size: 32.68K

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Extension summary

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This add-on use regular expression templates to filter a text when it is pasted or copied. You may paste & filter when you paste a text modified by a regular expression in a form field in the browser. You may copy & filter to copy some text from a web page and want to use it modified by a regular expression in another application. You may also apply a regular expression modifier to change a text already in the clipcoard. The changed text being kept in the clipboard so that it can be pasted in the address bar for example.

Example 1: Suppose I want to filter only words that are longer then four characters to use in search engine: Open the Skim the clipboard option page click on Add a row (check box field) and enter the following in the table:

  • set name: >4,
  • set regular expression template: [\w\u00c0-\u010f]{4,}
  • Regular expression modifier: gi
  • set keep match or substitute: checked
  • Keep in clipboard: unchecked
  • Shortcut: two
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User reviews

Might be tricky to set it up, but if you figure this out it's exactly what I needed to optimize my workflow - specially with the shortcuts also working (I'm using now CTRL+SHIFT+X to make this special copy)
by Kaspar K, 2024-04-03

We needed this, it works great both in Opera and Chrome (even though it is differently). To configure the shortcut keys (this is not documented and hard to find) just go to: chrome://extensions/shortcuts
by Roemer Lievaart, 2021-04-12
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Skim the clipboard requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

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