Create design Create a Canva design.
Creates a new Canva design. To create a new design, you can either:
Use a preset design type.
Set height and width dimensions for a custom design.
Additionally, you can also provide the asset_id
of an asset in the user's projects to add to the new design. To list the assets in a folder in the user's projects, use the List folder items API .
HTTP method and URL path
POST https://api.canva.com /rest /v1 /designs
This operation is rate limited to 20 requests per minute for each user of your integration.
Authentication
This endpoint requires a valid access token that acts on behalf of a user. The token must have the following scopes (permissions):
For more information, see Scopes .
Provides credentials to authenticate the request, in the form of a Bearer
token.
For example: Authorization: Bearer {token}
Indicates the media type of the information sent in the request. This must be set to application/json
.
For example: Content-Type: application/json
Body parameters
The desired design type.
Properties of design_type
This can be one of the following:
preset
: Provide the common design type.
custom
: Provide the width and height to define a custom design type.
The name of the design type. This can be one of the following:
doc
: A Canva doc ; a document for Canva's online text editor.
whiteboard
: A whiteboard ; a design which gives you infinite space to collaborate.
presentation
: A presentation ; lets you create and collaborate for presenting to an audience.
The width of the design (in pixels). Minimum 40px, maximum 8000px.
The height of the design (in pixels). Minimum 40px, maximum 8000px.
The ID of an asset to insert into the created design.
The name of the design. Must be less than 256 characters.
Example request
Examples for using the /v1/designs
endpoint:
cURL Node.js Java Python C# Go PHP Ruby
curl --request POST 'https://api.canva.com/rest/v1/designs' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer {token}' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{
"design_type": {
"type": "preset",
"name": "doc"
},
"asset_id": "Msd59349ff",
"title": "My Holiday Presentation"
}'
const fetch = require ( "node-fetch" ) ;
fetch ( "https://api.canva.com/rest/v1/designs" , {
method : "POST" ,
headers : {
"Authorization" : "Bearer {token}" ,
"Content-Type" : "application/json" ,
} ,
body : JSON . stringify ( {
"design_type" : {
"type" : "preset" ,
"name" : "doc"
} ,
"asset_id" : "Msd59349ff" ,
"title" : "My Holiday Presentation"
} ) ,
} )
. then ( async ( response ) => {
const data = await response . json ( ) ;
console . log ( data ) ;
} )
. catch ( err => console . error ( err ) ) ;
import java . io . IOException ;
import java . net . URI ;
import java . net . http . * ;
public class ApiExample {
public static void main ( String [ ] args ) throws IOException , InterruptedException {
HttpRequest request = HttpRequest . newBuilder ( )
. uri ( URI . create ( "https://api.canva.com/rest/v1/designs" ) )
. header ( "Authorization" , "Bearer {token}" )
. header ( "Content-Type" , "application/json" )
. method ( "POST" , HttpRequest . BodyPublishers . ofString ( "{\"design_type\": {\"type\": \"preset\", \"name\": \"doc\"}, \"asset_id\": \"Msd59349ff\", \"title\": \"My Holiday Presentation\"}" ) )
. build ( ) ;
HttpResponse < String > response = HttpClient . newHttpClient ( ) . send (
request ,
HttpResponse . BodyHandlers . ofString ( )
) ;
System . out . println ( response . body ( ) ) ;
}
}
import requests
headers = {
"Authorization" : "Bearer {token}" ,
"Content-Type" : "application/json"
}
data = {
"design_type" : {
"type" : "preset" ,
"name" : "doc"
} ,
"asset_id" : "Msd59349ff" ,
"title" : "My Holiday Presentation"
}
response = requests . post ( "https://api.canva.com/rest/v1/designs" ,
headers = headers ,
json = data
)
print ( response . json ( ) )
using System . Net . Http ;
var client = new HttpClient ( ) ;
var request = new HttpRequestMessage
{
Method = HttpMethod . Post ,
RequestUri = new Uri ( "https://api.canva.com/rest/v1/designs" ) ,
Headers =
{
{ "Authorization" , "Bearer {token}" } ,
} ,
Content = new StringContent (
"{\"design_type\": {\"type\": \"preset\", \"name\": \"doc\"}, \"asset_id\": \"Msd59349ff\", \"title\": \"My Holiday Presentation\"}" ,
Encoding . UTF8 ,
"application/json"
) ,
} ;
using ( var response = await client . SendAsync ( request ) )
{
response . EnsureSuccessStatusCode ( ) ;
var body = await response . Content . ReadAsStringAsync ( ) ;
Console . WriteLine ( body ) ;
} ;
package main
import (
"fmt"
"io"
"net/http"
"strings"
)
func main ( ) {
payload := strings . NewReader ( `{
"design_type": {
"type": "preset",
"name": "doc"
},
"asset_id": "Msd59349ff",
"title": "My Holiday Presentation"
}` )
url := "https://api.canva.com/rest/v1/designs"
req , _ := http . NewRequest ( "POST" , url , payload )
req . Header . Add ( "Authorization" , "Bearer {token}" )
req . Header . Add ( "Content-Type" , "application/json" )
res , _ := http . DefaultClient . Do ( req )
defer res . Body . Close ( )
body , _ := io . ReadAll ( res . Body )
fmt . Println ( string ( body ) )
}
$curl = curl_init ( ) ;
curl_setopt_array ( $curl , array (
CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.canva.com/rest/v1/designs" ,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST" ,
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true ,
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array (
'Authorization: Bearer {token}' ,
'Content-Type: application/json' ,
) ,
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode ( [
"design_type" => [
"type" => "preset" ,
"name" => "doc"
] ,
"asset_id" => "Msd59349ff" ,
"title" => "My Holiday Presentation"
] )
) ) ;
$response = curl_exec ( $curl ) ;
$err = curl_error ( $curl ) ;
curl_close ( $curl ) ;
if ( empty ( $err ) ) {
echo $response ;
} else {
echo "Error: " . $err ;
}
require 'net/http'
require 'uri'
url = URI ( 'https://api.canva.com/rest/v1/designs' )
http = Net :: HTTP . new ( url . host , url . port )
http . use_ssl = true
request = Net :: HTTP :: Post . new ( url )
request [ 'Authorization' ] = 'Bearer {token}'
request [ 'Content-Type' ] = 'application/json'
request . body = << REQUEST_BODY
{
"design_type": {
"type": "preset",
"name": "doc"
},
"asset_id": "Msd59349ff",
"title": "My Holiday Presentation"
}
REQUEST_BODY
response = http . request ( request )
puts response . read_body
Success response
If successful, the endpoint returns a 200
response with a JSON body with the following parameters:
The design object, which contains metadata about the design.
Properties of design
Metadata for the user, consisting of the User ID and Team ID.
Properties of owner
The ID of the user's Canva Team.
A temporary set of URLs for viewing or editing the design.
Properties of urls
A temporary editing URL for the design.
A temporary viewing URL for the design.
When the design was created in Canva, as a Unix timestamp (in seconds since the Unix
Epoch).
When the design was last updated in Canva, as a Unix timestamp (in seconds since the
Unix Epoch).
A thumbnail image representing the object.
Properties of thumbnail
The width of the thumbnail image in pixels.
The height of the thumbnail image in pixels.
A URL for retrieving the thumbnail image.
This URL expires after 15 minutes. This URL includes a query string
that's required for retrieving the thumbnail.
The total number of pages in the design. Some design types don't have pages (for example, Canva docs).
Example response
{
"design" : {
"id" : "DAFVztcvd9z" ,
"title" : "My summer holiday" ,
"owner" : {
"user_id" : "auDAbliZ2rQNNOsUl5OLu" ,
"team_id" : "Oi2RJILTrKk0KRhRUZozX"
} ,
"thumbnail" : {
"width" : 595 ,
"height" : 335 ,
"url" : "https://document-export.canva.com/Vczz9/zF9vzVtdADc/2/thumbnail/0001.png?<query-string>"
} ,
"urls" : {
"edit_url" : "https://www.canva.com/api/design/{token}/edit" ,
"view_url" : "https://www.canva.com/api/design/{token}/view"
} ,
"created_at" : 1377396000 ,
"updated_at" : 1692928800 ,
"page_count" : 5
}
}
Try it out