Strip characters from clipboard

[gianthobbit]

I am using Roam Research and when you copy text it includes their special flavor of markdown.  It's not ideal for sharing anywhere else.

 

Example in Roam:

 

Copy and paste of this text:

 

Ordering food from [[Sai Rams]]

 

 

What I need is a way to strip those brackets around words [[ ]] - can this be done in Alfred?

[vitor]

Connect a Hotkey Trigger to a Run Script Action and paste this into the Script box:

pbpaste | tr -d '[]'

Connect that to a Copy to Clipboard Output (tick the box to paste to the frontmost app).

You’re done. Whenever you press your hotkey, it will paste without those characters.

[gianthobbit]

Awesome!

 

How could I do this if I want to use a keyword (running out of keyboard shortcuts..) and have it be added to clipboard?

[vitor]

Same thing, just replace one with the other.

[gianthobbit]

Brilliant! I missed the link you ad to use the copy to clipboard workflow you had below your example.  That was the missing piece.

Thanks!