ProPresenter API - Updating Text

[PopChurch]

Trying to use the available APIs to create presentation slides (with text) or update the text of existing presentation slides. However, this appears to not be supported. Referencing the official API, I am able to create playlists, but not presentations. I tried including presentation as an object within a playlist request but no luck there.

I have propresenter-watcher setup for websocket connections as well, but doesn't appear that there are any available actions to add/update slides this way either.

Is this API capability not available?

[cgarwood]

Unfortunately ProPresenter doesn't provide a stock way to create or update slides with their API. However, it is still possible to programmatically generate slides ahead of time, just not on the fly. https://github.com/greyshirtguy/ProPresenter7-Proto has some details on the ProPresenter 7 file formats for presentations

[PopChurch]

@cgarwood Ah unfortunate!

For context:
We have an app where people can submit their prayer requests for our church. Then we display those requests through Pro Presenter. Thought it would be really cool to be able to automatically update slides after each submission. We tried rendering the prayer requests via website inside of Pro Presenter. But the built-in Web View is outdated and non-performant in Pro Presenter 7 so the animations are extremely laggy.

Hopefully this endpoint becomes available in the future. Thanks anyways!

[jeffmikels]

You can do what you need using the screen messages feature and these CAN be edited through the API. Write back if you need help figuring that out.

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[PopChurch]

You can do what you need using the screen messages feature and these CAN be edited through the API. Write back if you need help figuring that out.
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@jeffmikels I'm so glad you shared that with me. I did notice messages endpoint when I was going through the API, but overlooked it because I thought it did not fit our use-case. But this is exactly what we need!

I was able to create a message with the requests and it even supports \n and \r so I was able to get my line breaks in where I needed them. Lastly, I was able to use the Setlist - Vertical Scrolling to automatically handle the scrolling. Super cool stuff!

Thanks so much again for pointing me in the right direction 🙌