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Google Slides

Create presentations, read slides and their text, fill in placeholder text and images, add or delete slides, and get slide thumbnails in Google Slides.

10 actions · Sign in with Google

Connect Google Slides

  1. In the sidebar, open Connections and press Add connection.
  2. Type google slides and choose Google Slides.
  3. Press Sign in with Google.
  4. Choose your account in Google’s window and allow access.

You should see Signed in as and the account’s address.

You can also connect from a step: under Connection, press New.

What if it says “Google sign-in isn’t set up here”?

This installation has no Google app yet. An admin of the installation sees Set up Google sign-in instead, and sets it up once for everyone:

  1. In Google Cloud, create an OAuth client of type Web application, and turn on the API for Google Slides.
  2. In GoRunner, copy the Redirect address to add in Google Cloud, and add it to the client.
  3. Paste the Client ID and Client secret, then press Save and sign in.

Publish the app in Google Cloud. An app left in Testing signs everyone out after 7 days.

Everyone else sees who to ask.

Set up Google sign-in for connections

Can I use my own Google app?

Yes. In the sheet, open Use your own Google app and paste its Client ID and Client secret. Add the Redirect address to add in Google Cloud to your app first. The connection then signs in through your app instead of the installation’s.

Connections says how to sign in again, rename or delete it. In a product that embeds GoRunner, Add connection can be missing: then your provider makes connections for you.

Do things in Google Slides

Add a Google Slides step, choose a Resource, then an Operation. Choose a row to see its fields.

To start a workflow from Google Slides, use a Schedule, Webhook or Form trigger.

Later steps read a step’s output by its name: see Use data from earlier steps.

Limits

  • A reply from Google Slides can be up to 16 MB (a file download can have its own limit). A larger one fails the step; it is never cut short.
  • When Google Slides says to slow down (429), the step waits as long as it asks, if the step’s time allows. Otherwise it fails and says when to try again.

Not in your list? See When an app isn’t here.

For developers

In the API, which calls apps pieces, Google Slides is pieceId: "googleslides" with actionId: "googleslides", set by resource and an operation_… field, such as operation_page. Get an app returns every field.

It can change something outside the run (writes_external). See How versions and side effects work.

Google Slides › Presentation

Create

Title · Required

The new presentation's title.

Get

Presentation · Required

The presentation's link or id (the part after /presentation/d/).

Get Slides

Presentation · Required

The presentation's link or id (the part after /presentation/d/).

Return All · Optional

Read every slide, page by page (at most 2000; past that the step fails rather than stop early).

Off by default.

Limit · Optional

How many slides to return (1–2000).

Default: 100.

Shows when Return All is off.

Replace Text

Presentation · Required

The presentation's link or id (the part after /presentation/d/).

Texts to Replace · Required

Each row replaces every match of its text, such as {{name}} → Ada Lovelace, across the deck or on the slides given.

Only If Revision Is · Optional

A revision id from Get: the change fails if the presentation was edited since. Empty applies it to whatever is there.

Replace Shapes With Image

Presentation · Required

The presentation's link or id (the part after /presentation/d/).

Shapes Containing · Required

Every shape whose text holds this (such as {{logo}}) is replaced by the image.

Image URL · Required

A public link to a PNG, JPEG or GIF (under 50 MB and 25 megapixels; the link at most 2 KB). Google fetches it once.

Fit · Optional

Fit the whole image inside the shape, or fill the shape and crop the rest.

Options: Fit inside, Fill and crop.

Default: Fit inside.

Match Case · Optional

Off by default.

Only on Slides · Optional

Slide ids, separated by commas. Empty means every slide.

Only If Revision Is · Optional

A revision id from Get: the change fails if the presentation was edited since. Empty applies it to whatever is there.

Send Requests

Presentation · Required

The presentation's link or id (the part after /presentation/d/).

Requests · Required

Slides API requests, sent together and applied all or nothing, such as [{"createSlide": {"insertionIndex": 1}}].

Only If Revision Is · Optional

A revision id from Get: the change fails if the presentation was edited since. Empty applies it to whatever is there.

Google Slides › Page (Slide)

Get and Delete

Presentation · Required

The presentation's link or id (the part after /presentation/d/).

Slide · Required

The slide (its object id).

Get Thumbnail

Presentation · Required

The presentation's link or id (the part after /presentation/d/).

Slide · Required

The slide (its object id).

Size · Optional

The thumbnail's width: 1,600, 800 or 200 pixels (a tall slide may come out narrower).

Options: Large (1600 px), Medium (800 px), Small (200 px).

Default: Large (1600 px).

Download · Optional

Also download the PNG as a file. Off returns its link, which works for 30 minutes.

Off by default.

Create

Presentation · Required

The presentation's link or id (the part after /presentation/d/).

Layout · Optional

The new slide's layout, from the deck's theme.

Options: Blank, Title, Title and body, Title and two columns, Title only, Section header, Section title and description, One column text, Main point, Big number, Caption only.

Default: Blank.

Position · Optional

Where the slide goes: 1 is first. Empty adds it at the end.