README.md

👓 Windows Clip Spy

Description

💻 This is a terminal tool 🔧 which generates an executable to send your clipboard 📋 on each update to another machine ⚙. Made with educational porpuses

Purpouse

📖 Learn

• how to interact with Windows to start a programm on the OS init
• get the clipboard on updates
• create a simple terminal tool from scratch to generate executables
• make golang background programs

Technologies used 📘

Golang (Go)

Pakages 📦:

1. clipboard (Get the clipboard)
2. go-autostart (Start on the Windows init)
3. go-toml (Set and get config vars between the terminal tool and the final executable)

How to use it

Prerequisites :

• go 1.18

Clone the repository 📎

git clone https://github.com/PiterWeb/WindowsClipSpy
cd WindowsClipSpy

Install all the packages 📉

go mod install
go mod verify

Build the terminal tool 👷‍♂️

go build .
# This will generate the tool on an executable at the root folder of the project

Use the tool 🔨

Open the executable and introduce the config in the terminal that will appear

Listen for the clipboard on the url you specified 🔊

I had prepare the code for the server with the go http package. This code should be runned on a different folder to work well.

// <otherfolder>/server.go

package  main

import (
    "fmt"
    "io/ioutil"
    "log"
    "net/http"
)

const (
    Port = "8080"
    Host = "localhost"
)

func main() {
	fmt.Println("Server is running on port: ", Port)
	
	http.HandleFunc("/", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
	
		body, err  := ioutil.ReadAll(r.Body)
		
		if err !=  nil {
			log.Fatal(err)
		}
		
		fmt.Println(string(body))
	})
	
	http.ListenAndServe(Host+":"+Port, nil)
}

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cd <otherfolder>
go mod init github.com/PiterWeb/WindowsClipSpy/server
go run server.go