Paste clipboard in Windows Command

[drobor]

Hi i'm trying to do this for few hours but without luck

i wanna automate procces of program youtube-dl (cmd program for downloading youtube video)
command line go like this
C:\youtube-dl.exe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQx3GVqDWlU

can eventghost, when i copy link, to do all this for me
i managed to make script to capture clipboard in variable (i'm not sure that variable part is good)

import win32clipboard

# get clipboard data
win32clipboard.OpenClipboard()
eg.globals.myVar = win32clipboard.GetClipboardData()
win32clipboard.CloseClipboard()

and then with python command i printed that variable

print eg.globals.myVar

i saw in eventghost log that everything is ok. but in the next action when i wrote command line i didnt get any results

C:\youtube-dl.exe eg.globals.myVar

so please tell me where i'm doing wrong?
Also side question..my youtube-dl.exe is on desktop and when i do cmd operation outside eventghost video will download in desktop, but when i do command line operation in eventghost, my video will download in eventghost folder in appdata, roaming if i remember. how to change that so video can download where i want?

[jonib]

i saw in eventghost log that everything is ok. but in the next action when i wrote command line i didnt get any results

C:\youtube-dl.exe eg.globals.myVar

so please tell me where i'm doing wrong?

When you need to access Python variables you need to use curly braces, like this:

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C:\youtube-dl.exe {eg.globals.myVar}

jonib

[drobor]

Its working now.. one more thing, is it possible to make an event that will trigger that macro..
so when clipboard change eventghost will read url and if url have in words like "youtube" or "watch" it will make an event that will trigger my macro
do i need python script for this, do i need that words to put in new variable?

[eirik226]

Its working now.. one more thing, is it possible to make an event that will trigger that macro..
so when clipboard change eventghost will read url and if url have in words like "youtube" or "watch" it will make an event that will trigger my macro
do i need python script for this, do i need that words to put in new variable?

When you copy something an event is triggered in eventghost - you could use that. Unsure about the URL part tho

[jonib]

Its working now..

Great

one more thing, is it possible to make an event that will trigger that macro..
so when clipboard change eventghost will read url and if url have in words like "youtube" or "watch" it will make an event that will trigger my macro
do i need python script for this, do i need that words to put in new variable?

Just remembered I had this test code:

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import win32clipboard
import re

# get clipboard data
win32clipboard.OpenClipboard()
result2 = win32clipboard.GetClipboardData()
win32clipboard.CloseClipboard()

if re.match(r"https?://www\.youtube\.com/watch\?v=",result2,re.IGNORECASE):
    eg.TriggerEvent(u'FoundURL', payload=result2)

It checks the clipboard to see if it a youtube URL, if it is then triggers an event. "result2" contains the data from the clipboard.

Create a macro, put the code in a "Python script" action and add a "System.ClipboardChanged" event.

jonib