How can i insert hyperlink into a text with Google slide API (google app script)

Question

I would like to insert a link into a text (word), but I can't find a way to do the trick. There is no function in the offical Documentation https://developers.google.cn/apps-script/reference/slides/page-element .

I tried something like this:

var pageElement = SlidesApp.openById('12hh9vWVhFdj9kH51U-07Rc5yc9gKitJ3f_sr1I38lQQYUDB').getSlides()[0]; pageElement.replaceAllText("Bonjour", "Aurevoir" + **link associated**);

The second line is where i can't find a way to do the trick.

How to insert a hyperlink into the text replaced ?

Thanks

Answer 1

To set / update a link you need to use the Advanced Slides Service based on the Slides API

• After enabling the advanced service you can use the Slie API method presentations.batchUpdate with the request updateTextStyle
• This allows you to specify a hyperlink, whereby the id of the shape in which the text of interest is located, its start and end index are required parameters that you have to retrieve in advance
• So, you need to perform two different requests separately - change the text itself and then the hyperlink
• It is important to use saveAndClose() to make sure that the two requests don't timely overlap

• For the latter to work as intended, your script should be alone-standing rather bound to the open Slides document

Sample code:

function myFunction() {  
  var presentationId = "XXXX";
  var newText = "Aurevoir";
  var oldText = "Bonjour";
  var presentation = SlidesApp.openById(presentationId);
  var pageElement = presentation.getSlides()[0]; 
  pageElement.replaceAllText(oldText, newText);
  presentation.saveAndClose();
  var newLink = "www.stackoverflow.com";
  var pageElement = SlidesApp.openById(presentationId).getSlides()[0]; 
   
  var elements = pageElement.getPageElements();
  var requests =[];
  for( var i = 0; i < elements.length; i++){
    var element = elements[i];
    if(element.getPageElementType() == "SHAPE"){
      var text = element.asShape().getText().find(newText);
      if(text.length > 0){
        var objectId = element.getObjectId();
        for (var j =0; j < text.length; j++){
          var start = text[j].getStartIndex();
          var end = text[j].getEndIndex();
          requests.push(
            {
              updateTextStyle: {
                objectId: objectId,
                textRange: {
                  startIndex: start,
                  endIndex: end,
                  type: "FIXED_RANGE"
                },
                fields: 'link',
                style: {
                  link: {
                    url: newLink
                  }
                }
              }
            }
          );
          Slides.Presentations.batchUpdate({'requests': requests}, presentationId);
        }
      } 
    }
  }
}