Is it possible to add local image to Slide using Google Slides API and Python?

Question

I want to create a new slides out of the local images using Python. Unfortunately, I do not see an example to upload a local image, only an image URL via the official documenta

Answer 1

From the official documentation:

https://developers.google.com/slides/how-tos/add-image

If you want to add private or local images to a slide, you'll first need to make them available on a publicly accessible URL. One option is to upload your images to Google Cloud Storage and use signed URLs with a 15 minute TTL. Uploaded images are automatically deleted after 15 minutes.

Answer 2

Google requires a publicly accessible URL as mentioned in the docs.

You can either:

1. upload your file to an Internet-accessible server, or
2. allow the Internet to access your local system.

I'll describe the 2nd approach a bit because the 1st approach is fairly straight-forward.

To allow Google to access your local file without uploading the file to a server, you can use a local HTTP server and expose it to the Internet using a TCP tunneling service like ngrok:

https://ngrok.com/

You can use any local server. If you don't have one, http-server on NPM is easy to use:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/http-server

I've used the ngrok approach successfully.