share clipboard

A shortcut that reads your clipboard, lets you choose what to do with it, and acts on your choice.

What you'll learn

• Variables and bindings — storing action results with const and let
• Control flow — presenting choices with menu
• String interpolation — embedding values in text with ${}
• Standard library actions — getClipboard, setClipboard, share, showAlert

Source

shortcut {
  name: "Share Clipboard",
  description: "Read clipboard and share or transform it",
}

const text = getClipboard();

menu "What do you want to do?" {
  case "Share" {
    share(input: text);
  }
  case "Copy Uppercase" {
    const upper = changeCase(text: text, case: "UPPERCASE");
    setClipboard(value: upper);
    showAlert(text: "Copied to clipboard!");
  }
  case "Show" {
    showAlert(text: "Clipboard: ${text}");
  }
}

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How it works

The shortcut starts by reading the clipboard into a text variable with getClipboard(). In the Shortcuts app, this is the "Get Clipboard" action, and text becomes its output, the equivalent of a magic variable.

The menu block presents a "Choose from Menu" dialog with three options:

• Share passes the clipboard text to the system share sheet with share().
• Copy Uppercase transforms the text with changeCase(), writes the result back to the clipboard with setClipboard(), and confirms with an alert.
• Show displays the clipboard contents in an alert, using string interpolation to embed the text variable.