Add an image to a google slide?

[raybell-md]

Is their an API for adding images to google slides? From local or google drive?

[raybell-md]

gws schema slides.CreateImageRequest but wants to use a public url

[jpoehnelt]

Yeah this is a limitation of the API. It might work with a base64 data URI.

[raybell-md]

Was worth a shot

I tried using a base64 data:image/svg+xml;base64,... URI for the createImage request, but unfortunately, the Google Slides API rejected it with the
following error:
1 {
2 "error": {
3 "code": 400,
4 "message": "Invalid requests[0].createImage: The URL is invalid.",
5 "reason": "unknown"
6 }
7 }
This confirms that the Slides API strictly requires a valid, publicly accessible http or https URL and doesn't support embedding images directly via
base64 data URIs.

[jpoehnelt]

I'll need to know more about the source location to help further. Is it in drive? I think slides makes a copy of the image so there are some tricks from the urls that are available from other Workspace apps using short-term urls with tokens in them.

[raybell-md]

No was a local file. I thought that would be easier to test before trying a Google Drive file.

I just saved https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/Google_2015_logo.svg to my local machine.

I'm pretending this one isn't Public by saving it to my local machine