You copy
Whatever just landed on the clipboard.
{"name":"AlterPaste","status":"active"}
How a copy
becomes a paste
AlterPaste lives in the menu bar.
You copy. It rewrites the clipboard. You paste.
You paste
Formatted
{
"name": "AlterPaste",
"status": "active"
}
In between, you get a choice
Copy as usual. If a rule fits, AlterPaste offers you a rewrite before you paste.
Copy
Same as always. From a browser, a terminal, a Slack message.
AlterPaste
It notices, rewrites the clipboard, and leaves the rest of your Mac alone.
Paste
The cleaned-up version is already there.
Workflows
Developers
- Format JSON from an API
- Clean tracking off a URL
- Pull the text out of an HTML snippet
- Normalize an email address
Marketers
- Clean affiliate links
- Standardize UTM parameters
- Process campaign data
- Format copy for different platforms
Content
- Strip formatting from copied text
- Convert between text formats
- Clean URLs before you share them
- Process a data export
JavaScript does the rewrite
Each transformation is a JavaScript rule you write. You decide what matches and what it becomes. There is an editor in Settings.
function isMatch(content) {
try {
JSON.parse(content.trim());
return true;
} catch {
return false;
}
}
function transform(content) {
return JSON.stringify(JSON.parse(content), null, 2);
}Your clipboard stays private
AlterPaste runs on your Mac. Copied text is not uploaded. There is no account.
Local
Rules run on the machine in front of you.
No account
Download it and use it. Nothing to sign up for.
Your clipboard
What you copy stays on your Mac.