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Google App Script to create a doc with speaker notes from slides
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var INPUT_PRESO_ID = "<id>"; | |
var OUTPUT_DOC_ID = "<id>"; | |
function createNotesDoc() { | |
var presentation = Slides.Presentations.get(INPUT_PRESO_ID) | |
var out = DocumentApp.openById(OUTPUT_DOC_ID) | |
out.getBody().clear(); | |
table = out.getBody().appendTable(); | |
var links = []; | |
for (var i = 0; i < presentation.slides.length; i++) { | |
Logger.log("Exporting page " + (i + 1) + "/" + presentation.slides.length); | |
var slide = presentation.slides[i]; | |
var text = slide.slideProperties.notesPage.pageElements[1].shape.text; | |
var row = table.appendTableRow(); | |
var url = "https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/" + INPUT_PRESO_ID + "/export/png?id=" + INPUT_PRESO_ID + "&pageid=" + slide.objectId; | |
var imageCell = row.appendTableCell(); | |
imageCell.removeChild(imageCell.getChild(0)); // remove empty first paragraph | |
imageCell.appendImage(UrlFetchApp.fetch(url).getBlob()).setWidth(160).setHeight(90); | |
var noteCell = row.appendTableCell(); | |
noteCell.removeChild(noteCell.getChild(0)); // remove empty first paragraph | |
table.setColumnWidth(0, 140); | |
var noteParagraph = noteCell.appendParagraph(""); | |
if (text) { | |
var textElements = text.textElements; | |
var fullContent = ""; | |
for (var j = 0; j < textElements.length; j++) { | |
if (textElements[j].textRun) { | |
fullContent += textElements[j].textRun.content; | |
} | |
} | |
if (fullContent.trim()) { | |
noteParagraph.appendText(fullContent.trim()); | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
} |
see also https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59958862/how-to-embed-a-slide-in-a-google-doc-using-app-script/77949512#77949512 for a trick to put linked slide thumbnails instead of static images.
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Thank you, it works great exactly as I expected !!