Google Slides

Create, retrieve, and update Google Slides presentations and pages.

Overview

Google Slides tool provides full access to the Google Slides API. Presentation operations: create a new presentation with a title; get a presentation by ID (returns full JSON including slides, layouts, masters, notes); get presentation slides (returns the slides array with optional limit); replace all occurrences of text across slides using batchUpdate with replaceAllText. Page operations: get a specific page (slide, layout, master, or notes page) by its object ID; get a thumbnail image URL for a page, with optional download of the PNG image as binary data. Authentication supports both OAuth2 (recommended) and Service Account (googleApi). Binary output is only produced by the page/getThumbnail operation when downloadImage=true — the PNG is fetched from the contentUrl and stored via prepareBinaryData in the “thumbnail” binary property.

Category: Productivity
Tool Name: google_slides
Version: 1

Appearance: Icon: lucide-MonitorCheck | Color: #F4B400

Node Type

Action (Binary) — handles file/binary data operations

Input / Output

Direction	Port(s)
Input	Input
Output	Output, Error

Credentials

This tool requires Google Slides OAuth2, Google API (Service Account) credentials. See the Credentials Guide for setup instructions.

Resources

Resource	Value
Page	page
Presentation	presentation

Operations

Presentation (presentation)

Operation	Value	Description
Create	create	Create a new Google Slides presentation.
Get	get	Get a presentation by ID (full JSON including slides, layouts, masters).
Get Slides	getSlides	Get only the slides array from a presentation, with optional limit.
Replace Text	replaceText	Replace all occurrences of text across slides using batchUpdate.

Page (page)

Operation	Value	Description
Get	get	Get a specific page by its object ID.
Get Thumbnail	getThumbnail	Get the thumbnail image URL for a page, with optional PNG download.

Parameters

String parameters accept {{ $json.field }} expressions, which are evaluated once per input item.

Presentation: Create

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
Title	string	Yes	—	Title of the presentation to create.

Presentation: Get

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
Presentation ID (presentationId)	string	Yes	—	ID of the presentation. Found in the presentation URL: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/PRESENTATION_ID/edit

Presentation: Get Slides

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
Presentation ID (presentationId)	string	Yes	—	ID of the presentation. Found in the presentation URL: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/PRESENTATION_ID/edit
Return All	boolean	No	false	Whether to return all slides or only up to a limit.
Limit	number	No	100	Maximum number of slides to return. Accepts 1–500. (shown when Return All is false)

Presentation: Replace Text

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
Presentation ID (presentationId)	string	Yes	—	ID of the presentation. Found in the presentation URL: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/PRESENTATION_ID/edit
Search For	string	Yes	—	The text to search for and replace in the presentation.
Replace With	string	Yes	—	The replacement text.
Match Case	boolean	No	false	Whether the text search is case-sensitive.
Restrict to Page Object IDs	string	No	—	Comma-separated list of page object IDs to restrict text replacement to specific slides. Leave empty to replace in all slides.

Page: Get

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
Presentation ID (presentationId)	string	Yes	—	ID of the presentation. Found in the presentation URL: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/PRESENTATION_ID/edit
Page Object ID	string	Yes	—	The object ID of the page (slide) to operate on. Found in the slide’s objectId property.

Page: Get Thumbnail

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
Presentation ID (presentationId)	string	Yes	—	ID of the presentation. Found in the presentation URL: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/PRESENTATION_ID/edit
Page Object ID	string	Yes	—	The object ID of the page (slide) to operate on. Found in the slide’s objectId property.
Download Image	boolean	No	false	Whether to download the thumbnail PNG image and store it as binary data in the “thumbnail” output property.

All Operations

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
Authentication	options	No	oAuth2	Authentication method to use.
				Options: oAuth2, serviceAccount
Google Account	credential	No	—	Connect or select your Google account. (shown when Authentication is oAuth2)
Service Account Email	string	Yes	—	The email address of the Google service account. (shown when Authentication is serviceAccount)
Private Key	string	Yes	—	The private key from the service account JSON key file. (shown when Authentication is serviceAccount)
Max Concurrency	number	No	5	Maximum number of items to process concurrently. Accepts 1–20.

Output Data

The Google Slides API response is merged into the item JSON at the top level, so the response fields sit alongside the fields the item already carried. The rest of the input item passes through unchanged and upstream binary data is forwarded.

One input item produces one output item for Presentation: Create, Presentation: Get, Presentation: Replace Text, Page: Get and Page: Get Thumbnail.

Presentation: Get Slides is the only operation that fans out: it emits one output item per slide, each merging that slide’s fields — including the objectId you pass back into the Page operations — into the input item’s JSON. With Return All off, the slides array is trimmed to Limit first. A presentation with no slides still emits exactly one item, carrying the input item’s JSON unchanged, so the branch never goes empty.

Page: Get Thumbnail merges the thumbnail metadata the API returns — the contentUrl to fetch the image from, plus its width and height. With Download Image on, the node also fetches that PNG and attaches it as binary under the property name thumbnail, named {pageObjectId}.png with MIME type image/png; any binary the item already carried is kept alongside it.

Reference the result downstream by expression, e.g. {{ $json.contentUrl }}.

Usage Examples

• Create a new blank Google Slides presentation
• Get full presentation data including all slides and layouts
• Retrieve only the slides array from a presentation
• Replace all instances of placeholder text across slides
• Get a specific slide page by its object ID
• Download a slide thumbnail as a PNG image
• Get thumbnail metadata (URL, width, height) without downloading

Example Configuration

Create a new presentation:

{
  "type": "google_slides",
  "parameters": {
    "authentication": "oAuth2",
    "resource": "presentation",
    "operation": "create",
    "title": "My New Presentation"
  }
}

Get the full presentation JSON:

{
  "type": "google_slides",
  "parameters": {
    "authentication": "oAuth2",
    "resource": "presentation",
    "operation": "get",
    "presentationId": "1BxiMVs0XRA5nFMdKvBdBZjgmUUqptlbs74OgvE2upms"
  }
}

Fan out every slide in a presentation as its own item:

{
  "type": "google_slides",
  "parameters": {
    "authentication": "oAuth2",
    "resource": "presentation",
    "operation": "getSlides",
    "presentationId": "1BxiMVs0XRA5nFMdKvBdBZjgmUUqptlbs74OgvE2upms",
    "returnAll": true
  }
}

Return only the first five slides:

{
  "type": "google_slides",
  "parameters": {
    "authentication": "oAuth2",
    "resource": "presentation",
    "operation": "getSlides",
    "presentationId": "1BxiMVs0XRA5nFMdKvBdBZjgmUUqptlbs74OgvE2upms",
    "returnAll": false,
    "limit": 5
  }
}

Replace a placeholder everywhere in the deck, taking the replacement from the item:

{
  "type": "google_slides",
  "parameters": {
    "authentication": "oAuth2",
    "resource": "presentation",
    "operation": "replaceText",
    "presentationId": "1BxiMVs0XRA5nFMdKvBdBZjgmUUqptlbs74OgvE2upms",
    "text": "CLIENT_NAME",
    "replaceText": "{{ $json.clientName }}",
    "matchCase": false
  }
}

Replace text on named slides only, matching case:

{
  "type": "google_slides",
  "parameters": {
    "authentication": "oAuth2",
    "resource": "presentation",
    "operation": "replaceText",
    "presentationId": "1BxiMVs0XRA5nFMdKvBdBZjgmUUqptlbs74OgvE2upms",
    "text": "CLIENT_NAME",
    "replaceText": "{{ $json.clientName }}",
    "matchCase": true,
    "pageObjectIds": "SLIDE_ID_1,SLIDE_ID_2,SLIDE_ID_3"
  }
}

Get one page by its object ID:

{
  "type": "google_slides",
  "parameters": {
    "authentication": "oAuth2",
    "resource": "page",
    "operation": "get",
    "presentationId": "1BxiMVs0XRA5nFMdKvBdBZjgmUUqptlbs74OgvE2upms",
    "pageObjectId": "SLIDE_ID_1"
  }
}

Get thumbnail metadata without downloading the image:

{
  "type": "google_slides",
  "parameters": {
    "authentication": "oAuth2",
    "resource": "page",
    "operation": "getThumbnail",
    "presentationId": "1BxiMVs0XRA5nFMdKvBdBZjgmUUqptlbs74OgvE2upms",
    "pageObjectId": "SLIDE_ID_1",
    "downloadImage": false
  }
}

Download the thumbnail PNG as binary data:

{
  "type": "google_slides",
  "parameters": {
    "authentication": "oAuth2",
    "resource": "page",
    "operation": "getThumbnail",
    "presentationId": "1BxiMVs0XRA5nFMdKvBdBZjgmUUqptlbs74OgvE2upms",
    "pageObjectId": "SLIDE_ID_1",
    "downloadImage": true
  }
}

Error Handling

Mode	Behavior
stop	Halts workflow on first error
continue	Skips failed items, passes successful ones through
errorPort	Routes failed items to Error output port

Tips

Create presentations, get slides, replace text, and download page thumbnails using the Google Slides API.