Can drawings be selected via apps script in Google Docs? - google-apps-script

Question

I have a document with Google drawings that for whatever reason are not selectable within the UI. I am not sure how they were ever placed.
I was hoping to write a script to delete them, but I'm not finding a function that applies to drawings specifically.
I'm wondering if anyone knows a trick to accomplish this..
The closest thing I found was their sample for deleting images:
function myFunction() {
var body = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument().getBody();
// Remove all images in the document body.
var imgs = body.getImages();
for (var i = 0; i < imgs.length; i++) {
// Retrieve the paragraph's attributes.
var atts = imgs[i].getAttributes();
// Log the paragraph attributes.
for (var att in atts) {
Logger.log(att + ":" + atts[att]);
}
imgs[i].removeFromParent();
}
}

Answer 1

Never too late (I hope). The trick here is that inline drawings (InlineDrawing) are children of Paragraph or ListItem (source).
If you want to remove some inline drawings, the code below works for me. If you want to find all drawings, please see the TODO comment. It is a simple code, please enhance it if you intend to use it. Just for reference.
Unfortunately, to this time, I didn't find out how to remove drawings that are not inline (drawings that are above or below text). Please forgive my limitation.
function eraseSomeDrawingsFromDoc() {
var body = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument().getBody();
const paragraphs = body.getParagraphs()
paragraphs.forEach(paragraph => {
const childIfAny = paragraph.getNumChildren() > 0 && paragraph.getChild(0) //TODO: analyze all children
const childType = childIfAny && childIfAny.getType()
const iAmADrawing = childType === DocumentApp.ElementType.INLINE_DRAWING
if(iAmADrawing) childIfAny.removeFromParent()
})
}