can't copy figures to clipboard from jupyter notebook

[jheissb]

Issue Type: Bug

in jupyter notebook, produce any plot, then select and try to copy to clipoard either by pressing ctrl-c or edit-copy.

It doesn't do anything and the clipboard remains empty. The only option is to save the figure to disk, which is not practical.
I had to go back to use the browser instead of VScode for jupyter notebooks.

VS Code version: Code 1.58.2 (c3f1263, 2021-07-14T22:10:15.214Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19042
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• can't copy figures to clipboard in jupyter notebook (#129192)

[jheissb]

Attached screenshot showing I can highlight the figure, but it is not getting copied to clipboard. tried ctr-c, right click and from the edit medu.

[ceronvgabriel]

Hello, Is there any update in this feature request? We really need the feature to copy figures to clipboard, this help us when we want to add a figure to a document/article. That would be great, thank you very much.

[roblourens]

What do other clients do, copy it as html or as an image?

[ceronvgabriel]

What do other clients do, copy it as html or as an image?

At the moment I'm using Azure Notebooks, and what it let you do is to right click and copy from the context menu the image generated for example by matplotlib to the clipboard, then you can right click (or use ctrl+v) to paste it directly into a document, for example a Word document.

[natwille1]

Is this issue being worked on? It would great to have this copy/paste feature - it takes a while to have to save the images and it clogs up directories with tons of images.. Thanks!

[vitorbaptista]

Just chipping in that this feature would be very useful and sharing my current workaround. There are currently two methods of saving a picture to be used in another document:

• Save to your local machine
• Print-screen the image section (the Ctrl+Shift+PrntScr shortcut helps a lot)

Saving is slow to do for many pictures, and print-screen reduces the image quality. Being able to right-click and copy the image would be great.

[jordi-sastre]

This feature would be extremely useful. I have worked before with Atom+Hydrogen and it was possible to copy+paste or drag and drop images from the output panel. This made my life much easier. Now I'm using VSCode and I do miss a lot this feature. If I want to quickly copy an image elsewhere I need to either navigate to a directory and save it there or do a screenshot, which is not that practical.

[joelpaula]

Have the same problem. It really hinders sharing work results and collaboration. Saving as a work around is extremely tedious and time consuming.

[mika76]

Have the same problem. It really hinders sharing work results and collaboration. Saving as a work around is extremely tedious and time consuming.

I have figured out a bit of a workaround if you're interested - create a powershell cell and use the Set-Clipboard command with a #!share command - see this discussion: dotnet/interactive#1984 (reply in thread)

[Edit] I tried this with text results only, not sure it can be used with other result types...

[pamzgt]

This feature would be very useful! the workarounds are very annoying. It would be great to have it.

[AlFontal]

Indeed, this is definitely the number 1 feature that irks me the most in the VS Code Jupyter workflow!

[andreimargeloiu]

+1, this feature would be super useful!

[kerry-tarrant]

It would be great if there was a feature to right-click and copy/save my figures.

[amunger]

With the Jupyter extension installed and the latest vscode-notebook-renderers extension, there should be a new copy button that shows up on mouse hover over the output, which will place the image into the system clipboard.

Make sure you have the correct presentation selected, only png ouput is currently supported: