📄 Copy Post Component

[Discourse]

	Summary	Copy post shows a button in the post control of each post which copies the entire contents of the post to the user’s clipboard.
	Preview	Preview on Discourse Theme Creator
	Repository Link	https://github.com/discourse/discourse-copy-post
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Settings

Name	Description
copy_type	Select the type of copied text you would like saved to the clipboard (Markdown or HTML).
copy_button_allowed_groups	Select the groups that are allowed to use the copy button. By default, all users in the Trust Level 1 group will see it.

Translation	Default
title	Copy the contents of this post

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Last edited by @keegan 2025-01-13T20:29:03Z

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[Festinger]

Great theme component! Thanks

[Zup]

What happens to formatting and media?

[keegan (Keegan George)]

@Zup

May need to make some improvements in this area but currently:

• media is not copied
• formatting will be gone (i.e. plain text only) however, line breaks from <p> tags will be present.

[Zup]

Hope this can be updated to include media and formatting when pasted in Discourse.

[keegan (Keegan George)]

@Zup

Yes, definitely something I’ll be looking to improve in the future.

However, in the meantime, I’ve added a setting to copy the raw HTML content instead. If you set this to true, the copy button will copy the raw HTML of the post instead of the plain text. This way you should have the formatting and media.

[Zup]

Super!

Maybe a second button, Duplicate, (in the moderator gear icon area?) to automatically copy the entire contents of the post into a new topic with "DUPLICATE: " appended to the beginning of the title?

Anyway, very handy as is, thanks!

[Falco]

Maybe make the button do a request to /raw/topic_id/post_number so you can copy the real post content? This way it will act like the very useful Reddit Enhancement Suite “Source” button.

[md-misko]

@Falco

Maybe make the button do a request to /raw/topic_id/post_number so you can copy the real post content?

Similar component already exists: Raw Post Button.

Adding a copy button to the modal of that component would combine both approaches, what do you think @keegan @Johani?

[keegan (Keegan George)]

@md-misko Yup I think that’s a great idea. Since I created a widget for the copy button, I believe it can be quite simply copied over to be used in the modal.

[Jagster (Jakke Lehtonen)]

Is there any trick to show the button to logged in users only?

[keegan (Keegan George)]

@Jagster

There is now! I’ve added a setting to apply a minimum trust level to show the widget. Configuring it to 0 will make it so only logged in users can see the button.

[Jagster (Jakke Lehtonen)]

Why can’t we put two thumbs up when it is earned

[JimPas]

@Jagster

Why can’t we put two thumbs up when it is earned

Now @keegan has them.

[geoff777]

This wasn’t working on a new install.
The min_trust_level wasn’t selectable in Admin.
edit: component was functioning but wasn’t displaying correctly in Admin

I forked the repo and got it working but I set min_trust_level as an integer
So (5) = ‘disabled’ (0-4) as expected. So a small rewrite.

I haven’t done a PR … as it’s a simplification … perhaps someone else can confirm the component isn’t working?

[keegan (Keegan George)]

Hey @geoff777 I’ve tested this on a new install and it seems to be working correctly for me.
Also if I do apply those changes, the issue with using setting the min_trust_level as an integer in the settings.yml file is that the 0 value isn’t appearing in the dropdown.

[Jagster (Jakke Lehtonen)]

Any of values, except disabled, isn’t appearing in the box when selected. AFAIK any of values is in use, though.

[keegan (Keegan George)]

@geoff777

I set min_trust_level as an integer

Ah sorry, my mistake, I thought you meant you changed the strings in the enum to integers, but you meant you used the integer type instead. Yes, that seems like a better approach. I’ve updated the theme component to support that. Hopefully this should fix any of the issues.

[jrgong]

This is a great TC! In our use case we want our authors to copy full posts and paste them into an external editor of a course website. It would be great if you could copy the whole post including media in HTML or just rich text format.

[keegan (Keegan George)]

Just a heads up to those who were previously using this. I’ve now moved this from being my personal project to now being an official Theme component . With that, I’ve done a few changes to modernize the component so it works correctly on the latest Discourse version.

I’ve also updated the settings. Instead of a trust level only setting, you can now select any groups you want to be allowed to use the copy button. Additionally, I’ve allowed for a copy_type setting so you can choose whether the copied text is the post’s HTML markup or the raw Markdown.