Method: presentations.pages.getThumbnail

Generates a thumbnail of the latest version of the specified page in the presentation and returns a URL to the thumbnail image.

This request counts as an expensive read request for quota purposes.

HTTP request

GET https://slides.googleapis.com/v1/presentations/{presentationId}/pages/{pageObjectId}/thumbnail

The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Path parameters

Parameters
presentationId

string

The ID of the presentation to retrieve.
pageObjectId

string

The object ID of the page whose thumbnail to retrieve.

Query parameters

Parameters
thumbnailProperties

object (ThumbnailProperties)

The thumbnail properties.

Request body

The request body must be empty.

Response body

The thumbnail of a page.

If successful, the response body contains data with the following structure:

JSON representation 
{
  "width": integer,
  "height": integer,
  "contentUrl": string
}
Fields
width

integer

The positive width in pixels of the thumbnail image.
height

integer

The positive height in pixels of the thumbnail image.
contentUrl

string

The content URL of the thumbnail image.

The URL to the image has a default lifetime of 30 minutes. This URL is tagged with the account of the requester. Anyone with the URL effectively accesses the image as the original requester. Access to the image may be lost if the presentation's sharing settings change. The mime type of the thumbnail image is the same as specified in the GetPageThumbnailRequest.

Authorization scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.readonly
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/presentations
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/presentations.readonly

For more information, see the Authorization guide.

ThumbnailProperties

Provides control over page thumbnail creation.

JSON representation 
{
  "mimeType": enum (MimeType),
  "thumbnailSize": enum (ThumbnailSize)
}
Fields
mimeType

enum (MimeType)

The optional mime type of the thumbnail image.

If you don't specify the mime type, the mime type defaults to PNG.
thumbnailSize

enum (ThumbnailSize)

The optional thumbnail image size.

If you don't specify the size, the server chooses a default size of the image.

MimeType

The mime type of the thumbnail image.

Enums
PNG The default mime type.

ThumbnailSize

The predefined thumbnail image sizes.

Enums
THUMBNAIL_SIZE_UNSPECIFIED

The default thumbnail image size.

The unspecified thumbnail size implies that the server chooses the size of the image in a way that might vary in the future.
LARGE The thumbnail image width of 1600px.
MEDIUM The thumbnail image width of 800px.
SMALL The thumbnail image width of 200px.