Copy Tracker

About

Copy Tracker - Clean, Silent, and Professional Clipboard Manager

Copy Tracker is a high-performance, minimalist clipboard companion for Chrome that works in the background to log your copy actions, search history, and export records. Designed with a professional light-slate user interface, this extension operates silently to avoid cluttering your browser toolbar or interrupting your workflow.

Whether you are a developer, writer, student, or researcher, Copy Tracker ensures that every snippet of text you copy is saved locally for instant retrieval, copy back, or text export.

KEY FEATURES

COMPACT CLASSIC USER INTERFACE The visual system is designed for professional environments:
Light-Slate Palette: Soft off-white and gray slate tones that reduce eye strain during long hours.
Crisp Grid Geometry: Card outlines and tighter corner boundaries make text clippings easy to read at a glance.
Natural Shadows and Elevations: Subtle hover animations lift items to provide clear interactive feedback.
Minimalist Branding: A clean layout focusing strictly on your clipboard contents.
SILENT AND INSTANT INTERACTIONS No intrusive interruptions:
Instant Operations: Clear your history or delete individual clippings immediately without confirmation popups.
Silent Copying: Click on any logged card or copy button to write it back to your operating system clipboard instantly. The system does not show toast banners or distracting overlays.
Clutter-Free Icon: No count badges or blue numbers appear on the extension icon in your browser toolbar, leaving your browser bar perfectly clean.
ROBUST SHORTCUT CAPTURE Standard keyboard capture has been upgraded for absolute reliability:
Case and Modifier Insensitive: Pressing Control plus C (or Command plus C) is captured perfectly even when Caps Lock is enabled or when holding the Shift key.
Multi-Layout Support: Full keyboard layout compatibility, checking across key codes, keyboard characters, and layout codes to prevent missed copies.
Immediate and Staggered Checks: Triggers an immediate capture followed by quick staggered intervals to capture selections the exact millisecond they are registered by site scripts.
Capture-Phase Listeners: Active capture listeners run on the window object before standard site events, preventing custom page scripts from blocking clipboard detection.
ADVANCED API INTERCEPTION Captures code blocks and programmatic custom copying:
Event-Based Hooking: Intercepts custom clipboard writes. When modern web pages (like GitHub, StackOverflow, or Google Docs) use programmatic copy buttons, Copy Tracker intercepts and saves the content.
Legacy and Modern API Support: Captures programmatic copies using modern clipboard writes (navigator.clipboard.writeText) as well as legacy document copy commands (document.execCommand).
SANDBOXED AND CSP SECURITY ISOLATION
Zero Event Blocking: Every custom prototype patch is wrapped in an isolated exception handler. If sandboxed pages, strict security policies (CSPs), or iframe constraints throw errors, the extension degrades gracefully and allows the native browser copy to finish without blocking.
Local Frame Traversal: Traverses local document trees and deep Shadow DOM elements to find text inside web elements.
COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY CONTROLS
Search Functionality: Use a high-speed search bar with live text highlighting to find past clips instantly by content or website source.
Pinning Utility: Pin important text blocks to keep them at the top of your list indefinitely.
Text Exporting: Export your entire captured clipboard history into a beautifully formatted text file with timestamps and origin domains with a single click.
Atomic De-duplication: Features a 2-second global lock and text de-duplication to prevent duplicate captures when double-pressing keys.
HOW IT WORKS

When you install Copy Tracker, the extension activates in the background:

Capture: While you browse, Copy Tracker listens for standard copy events, manual highlights, key combinations, and programmatic button copies.
Store: The captured text, the URL of the origin website, the domain name, and a timestamp are passed to a secure local database (Chrome Local Storage). Pinned items are structured to stay at the top. The queue supports up to 100 historical items.
Retrieve: Open the browser popup to view, search, export, or copy items back to your clipboard.
PRIVACY AND SECURITY FIRST

100% Local Storage: Copy Tracker processes and saves your clipboard logs exclusively in your local browser storage.
Zero Network Access: The extension has no external network permissions. Your clipboard logs never leave your physical computer and are never uploaded to any remote servers.
No Tracking: We do not collect, monitor, or track analytical data, usage statistics, or user metrics. Your data belongs entirely to you.
PERMISSIONS REQUESTED

Storage: Required to store and manage your clipboard history items locally.
Scripting: Needed to inject programmatic trackers into pages so they can detect key selections.
Active Host Permissions: Needed to monitor selection copies across different websites so you can use the tracker universally.