How to paste Clipboard content (i.e. picture) using shortcut script on macOS?

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Posted on Apr 8, 2025 8:43 AM

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Apr 29, 2025 11:13 AM in response to ArikBrock

I think you may be misunderstanding what get clipboard does.

It just passes the content of the clipboard to the next action in your shortcut.

Since there is no further action, nothing happens.


You should be able to fix the shortcut by adding an action that actually pastes the contents of the clipboard.


One way is to add "Run Shell Script" action like the one below - replace "Safari" with "Figma" in the two places where it appears

(I used Safari because I don't have Figma installed).


NOTE: the image below was pasted in this reply using the shortcut, to make sure it works!




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How to paste Clipboard content (i.e. picture) using shortcut script on macOS?

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