Google Apps Script quickstart

Create a Google Apps Script that makes requests to the Google Slides API.

Quickstarts explain how to set up and run an app that calls a Google Workspace API. This quickstart uses a simplified authentication approach that is appropriate for a testing environment. For a production environment, we recommend learning about authentication and authorization before choosing the access credentials that are appropriate for your app.

In Apps Script, Google Workspace quickstarts use Advanced Google services to call Google Workspace APIs and handle some details of the authentication and authorization flow.

Objectives

  • Configure the environment.
  • Create and configure the script.
  • Run the script.

Prerequisites

  • A Google Account
  • Access to Google Drive

Create the script

  1. Create a new script by going to script.google.com/create.
  2. Replace the contents of the script editor with the following code:

slides/quickstart/quickstart.gs
/**
 * Creates a Slides API service object and logs the number of slides and
 * elements in a sample presentation:
 * https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1EAYk18WDjIG-zp_0vLm3CsfQh_i8eXc67Jo2O9C6Vuc/edit
 */
function logSlidesAndElements() {
  const presentationId = '1EAYk18WDjIG-zp_0vLm3CsfQh_i8eXc67Jo2O9C6Vuc';
  try {
    // Gets the specified presentation using presentationId
    const presentation = Slides.Presentations.get(presentationId);
    const slides = presentation.slides;
    // Print the number of slides and elements in presentation
    console.log('The presentation contains %s slides:', slides.length);
    for ( let i = 0; i < slides.length; i++) {
      console.log('- Slide # %s contains %s elements.', i + 1, slides[i].pageElements.length);
    }
  } catch (err) {
    // TODO (developer) - Handle  Presentation.get() exception from Slides API
    console.log('Failed to found Presentation with error %s', err.message);
  }
}

  1. Click Save .
  2. Click Untitled project, type Quickstart, and click Rename.

Configure the script

Enable the Google Slides API

Open the Apps Script project.

  1. Click Editor .
  2. Next to Services, click Add a service .
  3. Select Google Slides API and click Add.

Run the sample

In the Apps Script editor, click Run.

The first time you run the sample, it prompts you to authorize access:

  1. Click Review permissions.
  2. Choose an account.
  3. Click Allow.

The script's execution log appears at the bottom of the window.

Next steps