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Generating a PowerPoint presentation from all Looks in a Space

A nice example of how you can use Looker’s APIs to expand the capabilities of the data platform is to generate new kinds of content. Even data-driven businesses sometimes want to put things into a PowerPoint presentation: With just a little bit of scripting, you can automatically generate a slide deck by downloading PNG images via the API. 1. Install the required Python modules. This code uses the python-pptx module. There is good documentation online, including a lot more you can do with PowerPoint slides: http://python-pptx.readthedocs.io/. While there isn’t an official Python Looker SDK client, you can install my build (from using Swagger Codegen) directly from GitHub: https://github.com/ContrastingSounds/looker_sdk_30/. Instructions for building your own client can be found here: Generating Client SDKs for the Looker API. Note that for Python 3 users there is a slight glitch in Swagger Codegen 2, which doesn’t handle APIs that return different content types very well. See the chan

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