How to Merge Two PowerPoint (PPTX) Files into a Single Presentation using Go

Combining PPTX files is a great way to quickly consolidate presentations which contain similar thematic elements. Rather than point-and-click your way through this process, you can instead rely on our Merge PPTX Documents API, which can be built into your document processing applications to consolidate two presentations into one. To use this API, you just need to register a free account on our website (this provides an API key with a limit of 800 API calls per month) and take advantage of the complementary, ready-to-run code examples provided below in this article to structure your API call.

Structuring your Merge PPTX API call is a one-step process; simply include the below code in your file, supply your file paths & API key in their respective fields, and you’re ready to go:

package main

import (
     "fmt"
     "bytes"
     "mime/multipart"
     "os"
     "path/filepath"
     "io"
     "net/http"
     "io/ioutil"
)

func main() {

     url := "https://api.cloudmersive.com/convert/merge/pptx"
     method := "POST"

     payload := &bytes.Buffer{}
     writer := multipart.NewWriter(payload)
     file, errFile1 := os.Open("/path/to/file")
     defer file.Close()
     part1,
         errFile1 := writer.CreateFormFile("inputFile1",filepath.Base("/path/to/file"))
     _, errFile1 = io.Copy(part1, file)
     if errFile1 != nil {
          fmt.Println(errFile1)
          return
     }
     file, errFile2 := os.Open("/path/to/file")
     defer file.Close()
     part2,
         errFile2 := writer.CreateFormFile("inputFile2",filepath.Base("/path/to/file"))
     _, errFile2 = io.Copy(part2, file)
     if errFile2 != nil {
          fmt.Println(errFile2)
          return
     }
     err := writer.Close()
     if err != nil {
          fmt.Println(err)
          return
     }


     client := &http.Client {
     }
     req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, payload)

     if err != nil {
          fmt.Println(err)
          return
     }
     req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "multipart/form-data")
     req.Header.Add("Apikey", "YOUR-API-KEY-HERE")

     req.Header.Set("Content-Type", writer.FormDataContentType())
     res, err := client.Do(req)
     if err != nil {
          fmt.Println(err)
          return
     }
     defer res.Body.Close()

     body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)
     if err != nil {
          fmt.Println(err)
          return
     }
     fmt.Println(string(body))
}

Simple & easy!