Helper python/shell scripts to download slides from slideshare

This repository contains python/shell helper scripts to download slides from slideshare as webp images and save it as a pptx file. Also, there is a streamlit application for the same.

Getting Started

1. Download a latest version of python >= 3.10

2. Install all requirements from requirements.txt file

> python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

1. download_slides_as_images.py

This is a python script that downloads the slides from slideshare url as .webp files

> python3 download_slides_as_images.py --help
usage: Helper script to download slide images from scribd [-h] --url URL --out OUT [--max-workers MAX_WORKERS]

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --url URL             Scribd slides preview url (e.g.- https://www.slideshare.net/JavedSheikh20/rch-programme-236992429#1)
  --out OUT             Path of the folder where to store the downloaded slides as .webp images
  --max-workers MAX_WORKERS
                        Max. no of workers to use for multithreading

2. images_to_pptx.py

This is a python script that can converts a list of images to a ppt file

> python3 images_to_pptx.py --help
usage: images_to_pptx.py [-h] --out OUT --image-paths IMAGE_PATHS [IMAGE_PATHS ...]

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --out OUT             Path of the pptx output
  --image-paths IMAGE_PATHS [IMAGE_PATHS ...]
                        List of image paths

3. download_slides_as_pptx.sh

This is a helper shell script that uses above two scripts to download the slides from given url and convert that to .ppt file

> sh download_slides_as_pptx.sh help
Usage: download_slides_as_pptx.sh <url> <out> [scale: (default 0.5)] [workers: (default 4 )]

Copyright

Licensed under @MIT