Passing selected text from web or from clipboard as a parameter to TC search function

[Box333]

Hello Everybody,

it often happens that, before you download a picture, a document or a song, you first want to check, whether you already have that or a similar file on your hard disk.

Unfortunately, I have not yet found a parameter that would transfer the clipboard content to the TC search function or would automatically insert the searched text into the "Search for:" field or pass it as an argument to a TC command.

I use the browser plugin ]Search from popup or context menu (https://addons.mozilla <dot> org/de/firefox/addon/searchfrompopuporcontextmenu), which can be used to pass selected text to a search engine or a local application.

Does anyone have an idea, how to pass a marked text from the web to the TC search function in a simple way, i.e. without AHK, without Everything and without saving it to a list first (because you always search for a single filename)?

Thank you in advance for your ideas

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Same thread in German > https://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=78380

[Fla$her]

2Box333
The logic of TC is devoid of debugging functions when solving such tasks, which is why resort to automation tools, if not external like AHK, then built-in (bat+wget/curl/etc, vbs/js, PoSh).
For example, I wrote myself a vbs code for downloading via links from the clipboard a long time ago.

[beb]

An example of how to get the clipboard content and turn it into a variable (within cmd; which I've been using for wget/yt-dlp downloads):

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:: Get url from the clipboard
for /f "delims=" %%i in ('mshta "javascript:var x=clipboardData.getData('text');if(x) new ActiveXObject('Scripting.FileSystemObject').GetStandardStream(1).Write(x);close();"') do set url=%%i

[Stefan2]

'mshta "javascript" '

Cool

Thank you for sharing.



 

[Fla$her]

2beb
It's a strange approach when WSH is used for one task, and a third-party utility is used for another, and for some reason it's all stuffed into bat, duplicating the creation of a variable. A triple hybrid instead of a full-fledged code.

[beb]

'mshta "javascript" '

Cool
Thank you for sharing.

Here's a more compact version that utilizes powershell function:

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for /f "tokens=* delims=" %%i in ('powershell -command "Get-Clipboard"') do set "url=%%i"
echo %url%

Here's an example of how it could practically work, for instance with wget:
[Total Commander usercmd]:

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[em_wget_clip]
cmd=%commander_path%\Plugins\app\Downloads\wget_clip.cmd

[wget_clip.cmd]:

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@echo off
chcp 65001
REM runtime variables parsing
Setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
REM path;cli;app
path %path%;%commander_path%\Plugins\app\Downloads
REM wget parameters (universal)
set params=-S -N --no-if-modified-since --no-hsts --user-agent="Mozilla"

REM downloads folder location
for /f "tokens=2,*" %%c in (
'reg query "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders" /v {374DE290-123F-4565-9164-39C4925E467B}'
) do set downloads=%%d

REM retrieving url from clipboard
for /f "tokens=* delims=" %%i in ('powershell -command "Get-Clipboard"') do set "url=%%i"

REM downloading...
@echo.&@echo downloading...&@echo.&@echo "%url%"&@echo.
wget !params! "%url%" -P "%downloads%"

REM checking output...
if ERRORLEVEL 1 (goto ERROR) else (goto OK)

:ERROR
:: wait 7 seconds then exit
@echo There's no URL in the clipboard
ping -n 8 ::1 >nul

:OK
exit/b

NB cmd code with checking option (starting from "REM checking output") in the specific example is redundant and can be omitted, it just shows a user can process errors if needed