ClipboardItem: types property

Baseline 2024

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The read-only types property of the ClipboardItem interface returns an Array of MIME types available within the ClipboardItem.

In the below example, we're returning all items on the clipboard via the Clipboard.read() method, then checking the types property for available types before utilizing the ClipboardItem.getType() method to return each data item as a Blob. If no clipboard contents is found for the specified type, an error is returned.

async function getClipboardContents() {
  try {
    const clipboardItems = await navigator.clipboard.read();

    for (const clipboardItem of clipboardItems) {
      for (const type of clipboardItem.types) {
        const blob = await clipboardItem.getType(type);
        // we can now use blob here
      }
    }
  } catch (err) {
    console.error(err.name, err.message);
  }
}