Google Slides Block

The Google Slides block connects your workflow to the Google Slides API so you can retrieve presentation content and metadata, create new presentations, or apply a batch of structured update requests to an existing presentation. Reach for it when a workflow needs to inspect slide content, programmatically generate a presentation, or push rich edits (add slides, insert text, replace images, and more) via a Google OAuth access token.

Overview

When to Use

• Retrieve the full JSON structure of an existing presentation — slides, shapes, text runs, and metadata.
• Create a blank presentation with a specified title and get back its ID for downstream steps.
• Apply a batch of Slides API Request objects to modify slide content in a single round-trip.
• Chain with an Agent block to generate presentation content and then write it via batch update.
• Extract a presentation's presentationId to reference in later workflow steps.
• Automate slide decks as part of report-generation or content-publishing workflows.

Configuration

Operation

Dropdown that selects what the block does. Defaults to google_slides_get_presentation.

Presentation ID

Short text input (presentationId). The unique ID of the target presentation — found in the Google Slides URL between /d/ and /edit. Required for Get presentation and Batch update operations. Not shown for Create presentation.

Placeholder: 1Abc...

Title

Short text input (title). The display name for the new presentation. Required for the Create presentation operation only.

Placeholder: My Presentation

Requests

Long text / JSON input (requests). A JSON array of Slides API Request objects to apply atomically. Required for the Batch update operation only.

Placeholder: [{"createSlide": {}}]

Google Access Token

Short text input (accessToken). A valid Google OAuth 2.0 Bearer token with at least the https://www.googleapis.com/auth/presentations scope. The value is stored as a password field and never displayed after entry. Required for all operations.

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Inputs & Outputs

• Inputs:

  • operation (string) — Operation to perform (google_slides_get_presentation, google_slides_create_presentation, or google_slides_batch_update)
  • accessToken (string) — Google OAuth access token
  • presentationId (string) — Google Slides presentation ID (Get presentation and Batch update)
  • title (string) — Presentation title (Create presentation)
  • requests (json) — Array of batch update request objects (Batch update)

• Outputs:

  • data (json) — Result object from Google Slides (presentation object or batch update response with replies)
  • metadata (json) — Response metadata, including presentationId

Tools

• Google Slides Get Presentation (google_slides_get_presentation) — Sends a GET request to https://slides.googleapis.com/v1/presentations/{presentationId} and returns the full presentation object along with its ID in metadata.
• Google Slides Create Presentation (google_slides_create_presentation) — Sends a POST request to https://slides.googleapis.com/v1/presentations with the given title in the body, creating a new empty presentation and returning its object and ID.
• Google Slides Batch Update (google_slides_batch_update) — Sends a POST request to https://slides.googleapis.com/v1/presentations/{presentationId}:batchUpdate with the provided requests array, applying all changes atomically and returning the response (including per-request replies) and presentation ID.

YAML Example

google_slides_1:
  type: google_slides
  name: "Google Slides"
  inputs:
    operation: "google_slides_batch_update"
    accessToken: "{{GOOGLE_ACCESS_TOKEN}}"
    presentationId: "{{get_presentation_block.data.presentationId}}"
    requests: "{{agent_block.result}}"
  connections:
    outgoing:
      - target: next-block-id