Merge Data with Google Slides API

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Getting Started#

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

Configure the Merge Data action
1. Connect your Google Slides account
2. Optional- Select a Drive
3. Select a Presentation
4. Configure Title
5. Configure Placeholders And Texts
6. Optional- Configure Placeholders And Image URLs
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.

Merge Data on Google Slides

Description:Merge data into a presentation. [See the docs here](https://developers.google.com/slides/api/guides/merge)

Version:0.0.1

Key:google_slides-merge-data

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Code#

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

export default {
  key: "google_slides-merge-data",
  name: "Merge Data",
  description: "Merge data into a presentation. [See the docs here](https://developers.google.com/slides/api/guides/merge)",
  version: "0.0.1",
  type: "action",
  props: {
    app,
    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 to make a copy of.",
    },
    title: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Title",
      description: "The title of the new presentation.",
    },
    placeholdersAndTexts: {
      type: "object",
      label: "Placeholders And Texts",
      description: "The placeholders and texts to be merged into the presentation. So the key should be the placeholder ID and the value should be the text to be merged. As a placeholder example you can use `{{name}}` and the value can be `John Doe`.",
    },
    placeholdersAndImageUrls: {
      type: "object",
      label: "Placeholders And Image URLs",
      description: "The placeholders and image URLs to be merged into the presentation. So the key should be the placeholder ID and the value should be the image URL to be merged. As a placeholder example you can use `{{image}}` and the value can be `https://example.com/image.jpg`.",
      optional: true,
    },
  },
  methods: {
    getTextRequests(placeholdersAndTexts = {}) {
      return Object.entries(placeholdersAndTexts)
        .map(([
          key,
          value,
        ]) => ({
          replaceAllText: {
            containsText: {
              text: key,
              matchCase: true,
            },
            replaceText: value,
          },
        }));
    },
    getImageRequests(placeholdersAndImageUrls = {}) {
      return Object.entries(placeholdersAndImageUrls)
        .map(([
          key,
          value,
        ]) => ({
          replaceAllShapesWithImage: {
            imageUrl: value,
            replaceMethod: "CENTER_INSIDE",
            containsText: {
              text: key,
              matchCase: true,
            },
          },
        }));
    },
    batchUpdate(args = {}) {
      const slides = this.app.slides();
      return slides.presentations.batchUpdate(args);
    },
  },
  async run({ $ }) {
    const {
      app,
      batchUpdate,
      presentationId,
      title,
      placeholdersAndTexts,
      placeholdersAndImageUrls,
      getTextRequests,
      getImageRequests,
    } = this;

    const presentation = await app.copyPresentation(presentationId, title);

    const { data: response } = await batchUpdate({
      presentationId: presentation.id,
      resource: {
        requests: [
          ...getTextRequests(placeholdersAndTexts),
          ...getImageRequests(placeholdersAndImageUrls),
        ],
      },
    });

    $.export("$summary", `Successfully merged data into presentation with ID: ${response.presentationId}`);

    return response;
  },
};

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.
Drive	`drive`	`string`	Select a value from the drop down menu.
Presentation	`presentationId`	`string`	Select a value from the drop down menu.
Title	`title`	`string`	The title of the new presentation.
Placeholders And Texts	`placeholdersAndTexts`	`object`	The placeholders and texts to be merged into the presentation. So the key should be the placeholder ID and the value should be the text to be merged. As a placeholder example you can use `{{name}}` and the value can be `John Doe`.
Placeholders And Image URLs	`placeholdersAndImageUrls`	`object`	The placeholders and image URLs to be merged into the presentation. So the key should be the placeholder ID and the value should be the image URL to be merged. As a placeholder example you can use `{{image}}` and the value can be `https://example.com/image.jpg`.

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