Clipboard-Automator

Clipboard-Automator

In-graph replacement for ComfyUI-Clipboard-Workflow-Automator. Instead of a separate script polling the clipboard and pushing prompts to the API, these are nodes that live inside the workflow itself: when executed, they block/poll until new clipboard content appears, then output it.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/be21861a-7b98-4db6-8f98-630a86a57cab

Nodes

• Clipboard Image Input (wait) → IMAGE, MASK
• Clipboard Text Input (wait) → STRING

Both take:

| Input | Meaning | | ---------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | poll_interval | Seconds between clipboard checks (default 0.5) | | timeout | Give up after N seconds with nothing new; 0 = wait forever | | ignore_current | On the node's first run, ignore whatever's already on the clipboard (mirrors the old script's "startup skip") |

Install

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/kastelan/Clipboard-Automator.git

cd Clipboard-Automator
pip install -r requirements.txt   # or: pip install .

Linux additionally needs system GTK bindings for PyGObject:

sudo apt install python3-gi python3-gi-cairo gir1.2-gtk-3.0

Restart ComfyUI. The nodes appear under the clipboard category.

Usage

1. Add Clipboard Image Input or Clipboard Text Input where you'd normally put LoadImage / CLIPTextEncode's text widget.
2. Queue the prompt. Execution pauses on that node until you copy something.
3. To get continuous monitoring like the old script: enable Auto Queue (dropdown next to the Queue button in the ComfyUI UI). The graph re-runs automatically after each completion, and the clipboard node waits for the next change each time.
4. Cancel/Interrupt in the UI works normally — it breaks out of the wait loop cleanly (via comfy.model_management.throw_exception_if_processing_interrupted).

Why this instead of the standalone script

| | Script (clipboard.py) | These nodes | |---|---|---| | Runs as | separate process | part of the ComfyUI graph | | Multiple workflows | via --profile files | just build different graphs | | Retry/dead-letter queue | yes (own HTTP calls) | not needed — ComfyUI owns execution | | Setup | config.toml, node titles (load_clipboard_image) | drag a node in, no config file | | Stopping mid-wait | Ctrl+C in terminal | Cancel button in ComfyUI UI |

Trade-off: while a clipboard node is waiting, that slot in the queue is occupied (same as any other long-running node) — you can't run other prompts concurrently on the same ComfyUI instance in the meantime.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.