How to get a layer SVG

Photoshop
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Is there a way to get a layer svg data.
buffer or string better.
I want to get the svg to upload to my personal website. :grin:

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For my plugin IconBoard I used this script by Pomax as a starting point, which took quite a while to port to UXP… I should had done more research, as there’s simply a property called layerSVGdata that you can read from a shape layer in Photoshop CC+.

photoshop.action.batchPlay([
    {
      _obj: 'get',
      _target: [
        { _property: 'layerSVGdata' },
        { _ref: 'layer', _enum: 'ordinal', _value: 'targetEnum' }],
    },
  ], {})[0]['layerSVGdata']
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Thank you simon.

I got the basic data:

_obj: 'get',
    _target: [
      {
        _property: 'layerSVGdata',
      },
      {
        _ref: 'layer',
        _id: layerID,
        _enum: 'ordinal',
        _value: 'targetEnum',
      },
    ],
    _options: {
      dialogOptions: 'dontDisplay',
    },

But there is something wrong.
some properties lost, such as fill, layerEffects and so on. :disappointed_relieved:

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I haven’t yet played around much with that property, but when I tested it yesterday on a red ellipsis, the SVG also had the respective fill color (if i remember correctly).

LayerEffects however are something Photoshop-specific and not part of the SVG standard. After all, they’re also pixel- and not vector-based.