Create Presentation with Google Slides API

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Getting Started#

Create a workflow to Create Presentation with the Google Slides API. When you configure and deploy the workflow, it will run on Pipedream's servers 24x7 for free.

Configure the Create Presentation action
1. Connect your Google Slides account
2. Configure Title
3. Optional- Select a Drive
4. Optional- Select a Presentation
Select a trigger to run your workflow on HTTP requests, schedules or app events
Deploy the workflow
Send a test event to validate your setup
Turn on the trigger

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Details#

This is a pre-built, source-available component from Pipedream's GitHub repo. The component is developed by Pipedream and the community, and verified and maintained by Pipedream.

To contribute an update to an existing component or create a new component, create a PR on GitHub. If you're new to Pipedream component development, you can start with quickstarts for trigger span and action development, and then review the component API reference.

Create Presentation on Google Slides

Description:Create a blank presentation or duplicate an existing presentation. [See the docs here](https://developers.google.com/slides/api/guides/presentations#copy_an_existing_presentation)

Version:0.0.2

Key:google_slides-create-presentation

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Code#

import app from "../../google_slides.app.mjs";

export default {
  key: "google_slides-create-presentation",
  name: "Create Presentation",
  description: "Create a blank presentation or duplicate an existing presentation. [See the docs here](https://developers.google.com/slides/api/guides/presentations#copy_an_existing_presentation)",
  version: "0.0.2",
  type: "action",
  props: {
    app,
    title: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Title",
      description: "The title of the new presentation.",
    },
    drive: {
      propDefinition: [
        app,
        "watchedDrive",
      ],
      description: "The drive to select a presentation from. If you are connected with any [Google Shared Drives](https://support.google.com/a/users/answer/9310351), you can select it here.",
    },
    presentationId: {
      propDefinition: [
        app,
        "presentationId",
        (c) => ({
          driveId: app.methods.getDriveId(c.drive),
        }),
      ],
      description: "Select the presentation that you want to copy from.",
      optional: true,
    },
  },
  async run({ $ }) {
    if (this.presentationId) {
      const presentation = await this.app.copyPresentation(this.presentationId, this.title);
      $.export("$summary", `Successfully copied presentation with ID: ${this.presentationId} to ${presentation.id}`);
      return presentation;
    }
    const presentation = await this.app.createPresentation(this.title);
    $.export("$summary", `Successfully created presentation with ID: ${presentation.presentationId}`);
    return presentation;
  },
};

Configuration#

This component may be configured based on the props defined in the component code. Pipedream automatically prompts for input values in the UI and CLI.

Label	Prop	Type	Description
Google Slides	`app`	`app`	This component uses the Google Slides app.
Title	`title`	`string`	The title of the new presentation.
Drive	`drive`	`string`	Select a value from the drop down menu.
Presentation	`presentationId`	`string`	Select a value from the drop down menu.

Authentication#

Google Slides uses OAuth authentication. When you connect your Google Slides account, Pipedream will open a popup window where you can sign into Google Slides and grant Pipedream permission to connect to your account. Pipedream securely stores and automatically refreshes the OAuth tokens so you can easily authenticate any Google Slides API.

Pipedream requests the following authorization scopes when you connect your account:

emailprofilehttps://www.googleapis.com/auth/drivehttps://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file