Google Slides

Google Slides

The robomotion googleslides CLI connects to Google Slides API for presentation management. It creates presentations, adds and duplicates slides, replaces text and images for template-based generation, and exports to PDF.

When to use

• Create new presentations or work from templates
• Add, duplicate, or delete slides
• Replace text and images in slide templates for automated generation
• Export presentations to PDF

Prerequisites

• robomotion CLI installed
• Package installed: robomotion install googleslides
• Google Slides OAuth2 or Service Account credentials configured via Robomotion vault

IMPORTANT: Session Mode Required for Multi-Step Operations

Each CLI command runs as a separate process — connection IDs from connect do NOT persist across calls. You MUST use --session on connect and pass --session-id to all subsequent commands.

Workflow

1. Install (once): robomotion install googleslides
2. Connect with session:

   robomotion googleslides google_slides_connect --session --output json
   # → {"outClientId":"<client-id>","session_id":"<session-id>"}
   

3. Use the returned client-id and session-id in all subsequent commands:

   robomotion googleslides google_slides_create --client-id "<client-id>" --title <title> --session-id "<session-id>" --output json
   

4. Disconnect when done:

   robomotion googleslides google_slides_disconnect --client-id "<client-id>" --session-id "<session-id>" --output json
   

Always append --output json to get structured JSON results.

Commands Reference

• robomotion googleslides create_presentation --title [--sharewith] --output json Creates a new Google Slides presentation with optional sharing
• robomotion googleslides open_presentation --url --output json Opens an existing Google Slides presentation by URL
• robomotion googleslides get_presentation --presentation-id [--page-object-id] --output json Retrieves presentation metadata or page element IDs
• robomotion googleslides copy_presentation --presentation-id --title [--sharewith] --output json Creates a copy of an existing Google Slides presentation
• robomotion googleslides replace_text --presentation-id --text-to-replace --replacement [--page-object-ids] --output json Finds and replaces text across all slides or specific pages
• robomotion googleslides replace_image_by_id --presentation-id --image-object-id --replacement-image-url [--image-replace-method] --output json Replaces an existing image in a presentation by its object ID
• robomotion googleslides replace_shapes_with_image --presentation-id --text-to-replace --replacement-image-url [--image-replace-method] [--page-object-ids] --output json Replaces shapes containing specific text with an image
• robomotion googleslides add_image --presentation-id --image-object-id --image-url --0 [--0-0] [--0-0] [--0-0] [--0-0] [--1-0] [--1-0] --output json Adds an image to a slide at a specified position and size
• robomotion googleslides pdf_export --presentation-id --file-path --output json Exports a Google Slides presentation to PDF format

Environment

• ROBOMOTION_API_TOKEN (if vault credentials are needed)