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Google Slides

The Google Slides node allows you to automate work in Google Slides, and integrate Google Slides with other applications. Robbot Automation has built-in support for a wide range of Google Slides credentials, including creating presentations, and getting pages.

On this page, you'll find a list of operations the Google Slides node supports and links to more resources.

!!! note "Credentials" Refer to Google credentials for guidance on setting up authentication.

!!! note "Examples and templates" For usage examples and templates to help you get started, take a look at Robbot Automation's Google Slides list.

Basic Operations​

  • Page
    • Get a page
    • Get a thumbnail
  • Presentation
    • Create a presentation
    • Get a presentation
    • Get presentation slides
    • Replace text in a presentation

Example Usage​

This workflow allows you to get all the slides from a presentation and get the thumbnails for the pages. You can also find the workflow on Robbot Automation. This example usage workflow uses the following nodes.

1. Start node​

The Start node exists by default when you create a new workflow.

2. Google Slides node (getSlides: presentation)​

Get Presentation ID​

  1. Open a Google Slides presentation.
  2. Copy the string of characters located between /d/ and /edit in your presentation URL. This string is the Presentation ID, which we will use in the Google Slides node.

Configure the Google Slides node​

This Google Slides node will get all the slides from a presentation.

  1. Select 'OAuth2' from the Authentication dropdown list.
  2. First of all, you'll have to enter credentials for the Google Slides node. You can find out how to enter credentials for this node here.
  3. Select 'Get Slides' from the Operation dropdown list.
  4. Paste the Presentation ID you copied in the previous step, in the Presentation ID field.
  5. Toggle Return All to true.
  6. Click on Save to run the workflow.

3. Google Slides1 node (getThumbnail: page)​

This node will return thumbnails of the pages that were returned by the previous node.

  1. Select 'OAuth2' from the Authentication dropdown list.
  2. Select the credentials that you entered in the previous Google Slides node.
  3. Select 'Page' from the Resource dropdown list.
  4. Select 'Get Thumbnail' from the Operation dropdown list.
  5. Click on the gears icon next to the Presentation ID field and click on Add Expression.
  6. Select the following in the Variable Selector section: Nodes > Google Slides > Parameters > presentationId. You can also add the following expression: {{$node["Google Slides"].parameter["presentationId"]}}.
  7. Click on the gears icon next to the Page Object ID field and click on Add Expression.
  8. Select the following in the Variable Selector section: Nodes > Google Slides > Output Data > JSON > objectId. You can also add the following expression: {{$json["objectId"]}}.
  9. Toggle Download to true.
  10. Click on Save to run the workflow.