Skim the clipboard chrome extension

What is Skim the clipboard?

Skim the clipboard is a url opener extension for chrome. also, it is clipboard manager extension. it's a free extension , it has 48 active users since released its first version, it earns an average rating of 2.67 from 3 rated user, last update is 713 days ago.

What’s new in version 0.0.7?

                This add-on use  regular expression templates to filter a text when it is pasted or copied.
You may paste & filter when you paste a text modified by a regular expression in a form field in the browser. 
You may copy & filter to copy some text from a web page and want to use it modified by a regular expression in another application.
You may also apply a regular expression modifier to change a text already in the clipcoard. The changed text being kept in the clipboard so that it can be pasted in the address bar for example.

Example 1: Suppose I want to filter only words that are longer then four characters to use in search engine:
Open the Skim the clipboard option page click on Add a row (check box field) and enter the following in the table: 

- set name: >4, 
- set regular expression template: [\w\u00c0-\u010f]{4,}
- Regular expression modifier: gi
- set keep match or substitute: checked
- Keep in clipboard: unchecked
- Shortcut: two

Click on Save all and close the option page.

Close the options, and select and copy a text from the web page you want to search, click in the search engine field, right click and select 
Paste  filtered - >4. Only the words of four charaters or more are paste in the field.
You may also  simply press Ctrl+Shift+B (PC) / Command+Shift+B (Mac) in the form field to paste the modified clipboard content.

Example 2: Suppose I want to paste the host url address (https://dev.opera.com/) in the address bar, using any link location from this site, eg. (https://dev.opera.com/extensions/publishing-guidelines/#create).

Open the Skim the clipboard option page, click on Add a row (text field) and enter the following in the table: 

- set name: host, 
- set regular expression template: (^http.?:\/\/[^\/]+)(.*$)
- Regular expression modifier: gi
- set keep match or substitute: $1
- Keep in clipboard: checked
- Shortcut: one

Click on Save all and close the option page.
Copy a page url from the address bar or on the context menu Copy link Address. Click on the page and right click on Replace in Clipboard > Host. The clipboard content is changed to the host url.Click in the address bar and (regular) paste the modified url that you can paste in the address bar.
You may also  simply press Ctrl+Shift+A (PC) Command+Shift+A (Mac) in the web page to modify the clipboard content.            

How to install Skim the clipboard?

You could download the latest version crx file or older version files and install it.

Preview of Skim the clipboard

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Reviews of skim the clipboard:

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Roemer Lievaart April 12th, 2021

We needed this, it works great both in Opera and Chrome (even though it is differently). To configure the shortcut keys (this is not documented and hard to find) just go to: chrome://extensions/shortcuts

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