2014_11_02_Send_Keynote_Text_To_Markdown_File.applescript

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-- Send Keynote Text to Desktop Markdown File
-- Writted By: Richard Dooling https://github.com/RichardDooling/
-- Based on 
-- Send Keynote Presenter Notes to Evernote
-- Version 1.0.1
-- Written By: Ben Waldie <ben@automatedworkflows.com>
-- http://www.automatedworkflows.com

-- Version 1.0.0 - Initial release
-- Version 1.0.1 - Updated for Keynote 6.2 compatibility
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-- Make sure a presentation is opened in Keynote. If not, notify the user and stop.
tell application "Keynote"
	if (front document exists) = false then
		display alert "Unable to proceed." message "Please open a presentation in Keynote."
		return
	end if
	
	set extractBody to button returned of (display alert "Would you like to extract slide content too?" buttons {"Yes", "No"}) = "Yes"
	
	-- Target the front presentation.
	tell front document
		-- Get the name of the presentation.
		set thePresentationName to name
		
		-- Retrieve the titles of all slides.
		set theTitles to object text of default title item of every slide
		
		-- If specified, retrieve the body text of all slides
		if extractBody = true then
			set theBodyText to object text of default body item of every slide
		end if
		
		-- Retrieve the presenter notes for all slides.
		set theNotes to presenter notes of every slide
	end tell
end tell

-- Prepare the notes as Markdown.
set theFormattedNotes to "# " & "Keynote Presentation: " & thePresentationName & return & return
repeat with a from 1 to length of theTitles
	set theFormattedNotes to theFormattedNotes & "## Slide " & a & return & return
	set theFormattedNotes to theFormattedNotes & "### Title: " & item a of theTitles & return & return
	if extractBody = true then
		set theFormattedNotes to theFormattedNotes & "#### Body " & return & return & item a of theBodyText & return & return
	end if
	set theFormattedNotes to theFormattedNotes & "#### Presenter Notes: " & return & return & item a of theNotes & return & return
end repeat
set theFormattedNotes to theFormattedNotes & return


-- Replace any returns with line breaks.
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {return, ASCII character 10}
set theFormattedNotes to text items of theFormattedNotes
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {return, ASCII character 10}
set theFormattedNotes to theFormattedNotes as string
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""

tell application "TextEdit"
	activate
	-- Create Desktop Markdown .md file named after Presentation
	set theDesktopPath to the path to the desktop folder as text
	make new document with properties {text:theFormattedNotes}
	save document 1 in file (theDesktopPath & thePresentationName & ".md")
	close document 1
end tell

This script takes a Keynote 6.2 Presentation that is open in Keynote, grabs the text from the Title, Body, and Presenter Notes and sends the text in outline format to a Desktop Markdown file named after the Keynote file. Keynote.key will be saved as Keynote.key.md

I love this. Love it! This is exactly what I need, with one small exception. Could you please change it so that if a slide does not have any Presenter Notes, it isn’t added to the Markdown file? Thank you again!

Thanks for your work! Is there a chance we will see an update for this to work with Keynote 6.6.1?

cheers, Bernd

I'm a major rookie...I tried to run this however, I am getting a permissions error. I'm assuming that this is referring to the file I'm trying to convert, not something within the script file. Is that correct?

I am on the lookout to find a way to extract the images together with the text from my Keynote presentations in some kind of format that I can then turn into HTML. In the end I want to arrive at the kind of layout achieved here:

You can tweak the PDF output from Keynote to look like this:

This gives me a PDF and it's the easiest way to share the content. But I would like to easily make websites from my presentations without endlessly going back and forth copy-pasting.

Anybody with any ideas?

Brilliant. Saved me a lot of cut and pasting. Thank you!!

Thank you, great script!

Wow, it still works. Great! Rick

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-- rd

Thank you!

This looks great and just what I need.
But I have no idea how to use it, or even where to put it. ;-)
Can someone advise?
Thanks!

Aha! Good ol' AppleScript.
File runs but doesn't save; appears to stop at
save document 1 in file (theDesktopPath & thePresentationName & ".md")
Any suggestions?

I haven't had to use to the script in a while, but just tested it to confirm that it still works. I did have to look at the script to find the file, I had forgotten that it saves to the Desktop, not the folder that contains the Keynote file.

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thanks for the script. FYI this still works with Keynote 12.2.1 but does ask for permission to access Desktop, in line with security changes.

Amazing it still works!

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-- rd