Extracting data from the Clipboard

[cjohnsonuk]

I would like to copy an HTML link from a web page
and paste it as markup

so for example
text on a web page displayed as "Documentation"

with a link to https://copyq.readthedocs.io/

could be pasted as

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[[https://copyq.readthedocs.io/|Documentation ]]

At the moment when I copy a link from an HTML page I can paste into a word processor and get a working link but when I paste into a web form I get just the text. I then have to go back and "Copy link" from the html page and paste in the URL.

When I copy the link and use a clipboard viewer to "Show Content" I can see that the text/plain part of the clipboard contains 'Documentation', the text/html part contains the styled link as html but I can't see how to access these parts programmatically using Autohotkey to allow me to paste the components in the required mark up format.

At the moment I have to copy text, paste it, then copy link and paste that . It would be good to get both in one go.

How do i :

• check that the clipboard contains a link

• access the different parts of the clipboard to extract the URL and link text