diff --git a/src/main/java/me/goudham/ClipboardListener.java b/src/main/java/me/goudham/ClipboardListener.java
index 7a987b6..ee10f6d 100644
--- a/src/main/java/me/goudham/ClipboardListener.java
+++ b/src/main/java/me/goudham/ClipboardListener.java
@@ -3,8 +3,10 @@ package me.goudham;
 import java.awt.Image;
 import java.awt.Toolkit;
 import java.awt.datatransfer.Clipboard;
+import java.awt.datatransfer.Transferable;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.util.List;
+import me.goudham.domain.ClipboardContent;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
@@ -109,6 +111,16 @@ abstract class ClipboardListener {
      */
     abstract void insertAndNotify(List<File> fileContent);
 
+    /**
+     * Returns the current clipboard contents, {@code null} if clipboard has no contents
+     *
+     * @return {@link ClipboardContent} containing either {@code String}, {@code BufferedImage} or {@code List<File>}
+     */
+    ClipboardContent getContents() {
+        Transferable clipboardContents = clipboard.getContents(null);
+        return clipboardContents == null ? null : clipboardUtils.getOldClipboardContent(clipboardContents);
+    }
+
     /**
      * Toggles the current value of text monitoring, the default value is set to {@code True}
      */
diff --git a/src/main/java/me/goudham/MyClipboard.java b/src/main/java/me/goudham/MyClipboard.java
index 6127d80..3a31c7d 100644
--- a/src/main/java/me/goudham/MyClipboard.java
+++ b/src/main/java/me/goudham/MyClipboard.java
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package me.goudham;
 import java.awt.Image;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.util.List;
+import me.goudham.domain.ClipboardContent;
 import me.goudham.event.FileEvent;
 import me.goudham.event.ImageEvent;
 import me.goudham.event.TextEvent;
@@ -146,6 +147,16 @@ public class MyClipboard {
         clipboardListener.insertAndNotify(fileContent);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Returns the current clipboard contents, {@code null} if clipboard has no contents
+     *
+     * @return {@link ClipboardContent} containing either {@code String}, {@code BufferedImage} or {@code List<File>}
+     * @see ClipboardListener#getContents()
+     */
+    public ClipboardContent getContents() {
+        return clipboardListener.getContents();
+    }
+
     /**
      * Adds a {@link TextEvent} to the underlying {@link ClipboardListener}
      *