🔒 Function to Copy a .GIF directly to Clipboard

[green mirage]

Hi, looking to create a function to copy .gif files from a given filepath directly to the clipboard so that I can paste them anywhere such as into Discord.

From my research online I have not found a clear way to do this, only methodology for storing images not GIFs.

In Firefox based browsers, you can directly right click on a .GIF and copy to clipboard, and even if you hit Windows + V, you can see the GIF autoplaying, and when you paste it anywhere such as Discord its the actuall full .GIF, so I am assuming this is a possibility with Python.

I am new to python by the way. I am learning with tkinter. Thank you

[warm raven]

@green mirage

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[rocky cosmos]

i don't know how well the tkinter clipboard API works with anything other then text, does it have to be using tkinter for the task?

i know that you wrote that you are trying to learn tkinter specifically, but i'm not sure that you can do what you are asking using specifically tkinter

[green mirage]

No it does not have to be using tkinter sorry

It can use anything

I am just wanting a function that I can use with my tkinter code, just specified that because outside of tkinter I dont really know anything

[rocky cosmos]

if you are going for only supporting windows for now, i think it's win32clipboard that you are looking for: https://timgolden.me.uk/pywin32-docs/win32clipboard.html

[green mirage]

Yes! This is what I am trying to use currently at the moment. I am struggling with the gif aspect

[rocky cosmos]

or this seem to be the documentation that the pywin32 github repo points to: https://mhammond.github.io/pywin32/win32clipboard.html

[green mirage]

Ty for this it will come in handy I am sure

I found this online prior to making this post:

def send_to_clipboard(clip_type, filepath):
    image = Image.open(filepath)

    output = BytesIO()
    image.convert("RGB").save(output, "BMP")
    data = output.getvalue()[14:]
    output.close()

    win32clipboard.OpenClipboard()
    win32clipboard.EmptyClipboard()
    win32clipboard.SetClipboardData(clip_type, data)
    win32clipboard.CloseClipboard()```

What would you recommend for clip_type?

[rocky cosmos]

maybe go the other way around and read the clipboard with a python program after you know you have a gif in your clipboard to find out what should go there

kind of a little bit of reverse engineering

[green mirage]

Oh that is smart! Let me see if I am capable of pulling this off

[green mirage]

TypeError: Specified clipboard format is not available```

Thats from me doing

    win32clipboard.OpenClipboard()
    data_debug = win32clipboard.GetClipboardData()
    win32clipboard.CloseClipboard()
    print(str(data_debug))```

When there is a gif on my clipboard

[rocky cosmos]

hold on and i'll look at the docs and also try to implement something short

[green mirage]

Okay thank you very much

[rocky cosmos]

i do hope that you continue to try yourself during that time and not just put it off in hope that i will solve it
because i'm not sure that i'll be successful

[green mirage]

Oh i am! I have actually been at this for like 6 hours lol

[rocky cosmos]

extra points for perseverance 😉

[green mirage]

I can not move on from something until its solved or until everything that I can possible conceive of conceiving of trying is tried

omg

i got it

its so simple

def send_to_clipboard(filepath):
    command = f'powershell Set-Clipboard -LiteralPath \'{filepath}\''
    os.system(command)
    print('{filepath}')```

this works

i can paste it into discord and everything

[rocky cosmos]

oh, using an external system command through powershell

well, it's kind of a hack, but whatever works i guess

i'll continue to look for a way to use the actual API

because with that solution you need to have a file on the file system first

[green mirage]

Ok now i gotta figure out how to get all the gifs in a directory then list them in a grid and have them autoplay and have a search function by filename lol

[green mirage]

Thats perfectly fine

There will never be a case where that isnt true

Im trying to make a gif browser like discord but with local files so its 1) obscenely faster loading and 2) lets me search MY gifs and not a library of random aah shi

[rocky cosmos]

oh, i see 👍

[green mirage]

Ty for your help

[rocky cosmos]

haha, at least trying to help, you came up with your own solution 😆 👍

but now you got me intrigued and i will have a hard time letting this go without a API based solution 😅

[green mirage]

If you find it let me know I am curious also. I sent you a friend request

How do I mark this thread as solved or get rid of it

[rocky cosmos]

thanks, but i don't generally accept friend requests on this server, sorry

[green mirage]

ye thats fine

just shout it to the stars ill hear it

[warm raven]

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