# zeroclipboard/zeroclipboard

The ZeroClipboard library provides an easy way to copy text to the clipboard using an invisible Adobe Flash movie and a JavaScript interface.

Repository: https://github.com/zeroclipboard/zeroclipboard
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/zeroclipboard
Homepage: http://zeroclipboard.github.io/
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: zeroclipboard, javascript, flash, adobe-flash, apache-flex, clipboard, dom, web, frontend, adobe-flex
Archived: true
Last push: 2021-02-15T20:36:42+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5255, "days_push": 2025, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 6587, forks 1012 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:45.480088+00:00)

## What it is
ZeroClipboard is a JavaScript library that enables copy-to-clipboard functionality in web pages by floating an invisible Adobe Flash movie over DOM elements. It is explicitly no longer maintained because modern browsers now provide the native HTML Clipboard API.

## Use cases
- copy text to clipboard from a web page button
- add copy button to code snippets on a website
- implement copy and cut interactions in legacy browsers without Clipboard API
- keep custom UI styling while handling clipboard copy events

## When to choose
- maintaining a legacy web app that must support very old browsers without the Clipboard API
- you are already using ZeroClipboard and need reference to the v2.x codebase

## When to avoid
- building any new web project - use the native Clipboard API or clipboard.js instead
- your target browsers support navigator.clipboard
- you need a maintained library with active support

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: ui-components, developer-tools
- domain: frontend, web-development, browser-extensions
- platform: browser
- tags: clipboard, flash, copy-to-clipboard, deprecated, javascript

## Member repositories
- zeroclipboard/zeroclipboard (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:45.480088+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 2026-08-29T17:43:35.026255+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/zeroclipboard/zeroclipboard (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:45.480088+00:00, sha fd90fad81c17)
  - homepage: http://zeroclipboard.github.io/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:40:15.457521+00:00, sha 69de95994091)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/zeroclipboard (fetched 2026-08-29T08:40:15.466232+00:00, sha 704563737433)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.