How to access clipboard data using Java on Windows?

Question

I want to receive clipboard data / text in my Java program on the Windows 10 system target system. Any code snippets or class that are used to access the clipboard data?

Answer 1

This code snippet is for accessing and printing clipboard data in Java:

import java.awt.datatransfer.*;
    import java.awt.*;
    /**
     * Demo to access System Clipboard
     */
    public class SystemClipboardAccess {

        public static void main(String args[])throws Exception
        {

            // Create a Clipboard object using getSystemClipboard() method
            Clipboard c=Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getSystemClipboard();

            // Get data stored in the clipboard that is in the form of a string (text)
            System.out.println(c.getData(DataFlavor.stringFlavor));
        }
    }

Answer 2

Use : Toolkit#getSystemClipboard

import java.awt.HeadlessException;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.awt.datatransfer.DataFlavor;
import java.awt.datatransfer.UnsupportedFlavorException;
import java.io.IOException;

public static String readClipboard(){
    return (String) Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getSystemClipboard().getData(DataFlavor.stringFlavor);
}