# bugaevc/wl-clipboard

Command-line copy/paste utilities for Wayland

Repository: https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/wl-clipboard
Language: C
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: wayland, clipboard
Last push: 2026-08-06T08:56:10+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 78/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 96, release rhythm 43, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3142, "days_push": 27, "days_rel": 164, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2413, forks 88 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:44.429418+00:00)

## What it is
wl-clipboard provides two command-line utilities, wl-copy and wl-paste, for copying and pasting data between the Wayland clipboard and Unix pipes, files, and sockets. It is written in C and packaged in most Linux and BSD distributions.

## Use cases
- copy text to the wayland clipboard from the command line
- pipe command output into the clipboard
- paste clipboard contents into a file or pipe
- copy images or files to the clipboard
- run a command whenever the clipboard changes
- replace xclip with a wayland-native tool

## When to choose
- you use a Wayland compositor and need scriptable clipboard access
- you want to pipe data to or from the clipboard in shell scripts
- you need a lightweight, distro-packaged clipboard CLI

## When to avoid
- you are on X11 and want a native X11 tool (use xclip/xsel or the wrapper)
- you need a clipboard library API rather than CLI tools (consider wl-clipboard-rs)
- you need a graphical clipboard manager with history

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: stable
- function: cli, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, desktop-applications
- platform: bsd, cli
- tags: wayland, clipboard, wl-copy, wl-paste, c, command-line, linux

## Member repositories
- bugaevc/wl-clipboard (main) score 78

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:44.429418+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:33:14.130833+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:44.429418+00:00, sha 6598f74f4936)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.