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📣 itslogotime

Best Slide API?


Hey all - we're looking for an API for rendering PowerPoint slides... is there any third party service that you've had a good experience with?

Ideally, we're looking to send a JSON payload describing the slide and receive back the URL to download it.

If you haven't used a third party, any tips on building this? Does anyone currently deal with creating slides programmatically for clients?

Many thanks, Josh

  👤 rococode Accepted Answer ✓
I've only played around with it a bit and haven't used it extensively before, but PptxGenJS may be what you need to build this yourself.

https://github.com/gitbrent/PptxGenJS

https://gitbrent.github.io/PptxGenJS/

👤 jklein11
If you are comfortable using Google Slides instead of powerpoint they have an API that might be useful here.

https://github.com/gsuitedevs/md2googleslides

👤 doittoit
We had to back burner this feature, because making slides wasn't a core feature for us.

But it is a pain... haven't seen a third party, but have made something similar in the past with open source libs

👤 itslogotime
Anyone else have any insight / advice on this? Would really appreciate it!
👤 ridikulous
dont know of any services that do this, but there are plenty of open source libs
👤 mmedinalr
would you buy it if I build it?