Can I get speaker notes from Google Presentations API?

Question

I want to get speaker notes from Google Slides by API, but I could not find any fields for speaker notes.

For reference: Method: presentation.pages.get

What would be a good way to do this?

Answer 1

In the absence of an API, I would not say that this is a good way to do this. This is actually terrible . But there it is. If you absolutely need it. Most likely, this is also a bit strange.

Steps:

• Export a presentation via the Drive API as a PowerPoint.pptx file
• - zip , XML.
• (, XML ..).

? Script:

• API script ( > Google).

  function example() {
    // Print out the speaker notes
    Logger.log(getNotes('123abc......asd');
  }
  
  // Returns an array of strings, one string per slide
  // representing the speaker notes.
  function getNotes(presentationId) {
    //DriveApp.createFile();
    var notesRegex = /ppt\/notesSlides\/notesSlide\d+\.xml/;
  
    var url = 'https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v2/files/' + presentationId +
      '/export?mimeType=application%2Fvnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation';
    var options = {
      headers: {
        Authorization : 'Bearer ' + ScriptApp.getOAuthToken()
      }
    };
    var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url, options);
  
    var zipBlob = Utilities.newBlob(response.getContent(), 'application/zip');
    var data = Utilities.unzip(zipBlob);
  
    var notes = [];
    for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
      if (notesRegex.test(data[i].getName())) {
  
        // Example simply extracts text from speaker notes
        // You could do something more complex.
        notes.push(extractTextFromXml(data[i].getDataAsString()));
      }
    }
    return notes;
  }
  
  function extractTextFromXml(xml) {
    var doc = XmlService.parse(xml);
    var root = doc.getRootElement();
    var ns = root.getNamespace('a');
  
    var text = [];
  
    function walkNode(node) {
      if (node.getText()) {
        text.push(node.getText());
      }
      var children = node.getChildren();
      if (children.length) {
        children.forEach(function(child) {
          walkNode(child);
        });
      }
    }
    walkNode(root);
    return text.join('\n');
  }
  

Answer 2

API v1. : https://developers.google.com/slides/how-tos/notes