Introduction

This is a client&server for sharing clipboard between different computers which running client.

Base on Python3 and WebSocket.

Support on most platform running: Windows, Linux, Macos

Requirements

Run command in Python3 enviroment at source root:

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

For linux system (client side), install external requirements:

Ubuntu:

apt install xclip

Centos:

yum install xclip

Arch:

pacman -S xclip

Config

Config file is saved at data/config.json, run command to generate it:

python3 config.py

Server and client use the same config file, Config content:

{
    "server_setting": {
        "host": "0.0.0.0",
        "port": 10000
    }
}

Server:

1. host: bind address of web socket server
2. port: bind port of web socket server

Client:

1. host: server address which web socket serving
2. port: server port which web socket serving

Run Server

python3 server.py

Run Client

python3 client.py

Build Client Bin

Prepare

We can use pyinstaller to build. So, install pyinstaller to project python env.

pip3 install pyinstaller

Windows

Make sure rar command first, add path of your winrar bin to system PATH.

Save following script to build.windows.bat at source root:

@echo off

echo ========================== make dist dir
rd /s /q dist
md "dist"
md "dist\extract"

echo ========================== copy config file
md "dist\data"
copy data\config.json dist\data

echo ========================== pack python code
rem Extract Dir(for debugging): --runtime-tmpdir extract

pyinstaller ^
--runtime-tmpdir extract ^
-F client.py

rem use in cmd line: for /f %i in ('git rev-parse --short HEAD') do set git_head=%i
rem use in bat script: for /f %%i in ('git rev-parse --short HEAD') do set git_head=%%i
for /f %%i in ('git rev-parse --short HEAD') do set git_head=%%i
echo %git_head%
set year=%date:~0,4%
set month=%date:~5,2%
set day=%date:~8,2%
cd dist
rar a -k -r -s -m1 clipboard.client.windows10.x64.%year%%month%%day%.%git_head%.rar .\
cd ..

start dist
echo script finished
pause

Run this script in project python environment CMD.

Linux

Save following script to build.linux.sh at source root:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

echo ========================== make dist dir
rm -rf dist
mkdir dist
mkdir dist/extract

echo ========================== copy logger config file
mkdir dist/data
cp data/config.json dist/data/

echo ========================== pack python code
# Extract Dir(for debugging): --runtime-tmpdir extract

pyinstaller \
--runtime-tmpdir extract \
-F client.py

chmod 755 dist/client

cd dist
git_head=$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)
build_time=$(date "+%Y%m%d")
tar -cvf clipboard.client.linux.x64.$build_time.$git_head.tar *

cd ..
nautilus dist &

Run this script in project python environment bash.