Download Google Slides speaker notes

(Stolen from here)

1. From the Google Slides presentation, click Extensions > Apps Script
2. Paste this into the text box:

const downloadSpeakerNotes = () => {
  // Get the current Google Slide
  const presentation = SlidesApp.getActivePresentation();

  // Find all the slides in the current presentation
  const slides = presentation.getSlides();

  // Iterate through each slide and extract the notes
  const notes = slides
    .map((slide, index) => {
      const note = slide.getNotesPage().getSpeakerNotesShape().getText().asString();
      return { index, note };
    })
    // Filter slides that have no speaker notes
    .filter(({ note }) => note)
    .map(({ note, index }) => {
      return [`Slide #${index + 1}`, '---', note].join('\n');
    })
    .join('\n');

  // Create a file in Google Drive for storing notes
  const file = DriveApp.createFile('Speaker Notes', notes);

  // Print the file download URL in the Logger window
  Logger.log(file.getDownloadUrl());
};

3. Click “Save” and then “Run”.

That’ll generate a text file in your Google Drive with all the speaker notes.

In my case, I wanted to be able to copy/paste it all into ChatGPT so that I could generate a summary/teaser for the talk. But the possibilities are endless!