How to Convert Keynote KEY to PNG in Python

File format conversion is a huge headache, but often a necessary one. Both the size of the headache and the necessity are amplified ten-fold when working with Mac formats outside of their native habitat. If you would rather not get into all the details of parsing Keynote format, then I have just the solution for you. We can have you set up to convert your .KEY files into PNG images for each slides in a very short time indeed. Let’s begin.

We start with our client installation.

pip install cloudmersive-convert-api-client

Now for our function call, for which you can use this example code as a basis.

from __future__ import print_function
import time
import cloudmersive_convert_api_client
from cloudmersive_convert_api_client.rest import ApiException
from pprint import pprint
# Configure API key authorization: Apikey
configuration = cloudmersive_convert_api_client.Configuration()
configuration.api_key['Apikey'] = 'YOUR_API_KEY'
# Uncomment below to setup prefix (e.g. Bearer) for API key, if needed
# configuration.api_key_prefix['Apikey'] = 'Bearer'
# create an instance of the API class
api_instance = cloudmersive_convert_api_client.ConvertDocumentApi(cloudmersive_convert_api_client.ApiClient(configuration))
input_file = '/path/to/file' # file | Input file to perform the operation on.
try:
# Convert Keynote Presentation (KEY) to PNG image array
api_response = api_instance.convert_document_keynote_to_png(input_file)
pprint(api_response)
except ApiException as e:
print("Exception when calling ConvertDocumentApi->convert_document_keynote_to_png: %s\n" % e)

And there you have it; all done! Our output will be given in this format:

{
  "Successful": true,
  "PngResultPages": [
    {
      "PageNumber": 0,
      "URL": "string"
    }
  ]
}

Each of the pages will have its own download URL, making it super easy to get your results.