Get design

Get the metadata for one of the user's designs.

Gets the metadata for a design. This includes owner information, URLs for editing and viewing, and thumbnail information.

GET https://api.canva.com/rest/v1/designs/{designId}

This operation is rate limited to 100 requests per minute for each user of your integration.

This endpoint requires a valid access token that acts on behalf of a user. The token must have the following scopes (permissions):

  • design:meta:read

For more information, see Scopes.

#Authorizationstring
Required

Provides credentials to authenticate the request, in the form of a Bearer token.

For example: Authorization: Bearer {token}

#designIdstring
Required

The design ID.

Examples for using the /v1/designs/{designId} endpoint:

curl --request GET 'https://api.canva.com/rest/v1/designs/{designId}' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer {token}'
sh

If successful, the endpoint returns a 200 response with a JSON body with the following parameters:

#designDesign

The design object, which contains metadata about the design.

Properties of design
#idstring

The design ID.

#ownerTeamUserSummary

Metadata for the user, consisting of the User ID and Team ID.

Properties of owner
#user_idstring

The ID of the user.

#team_idstring

The ID of the user's Canva Team.

#urlsDesignLinks

A temporary set of URLs for viewing or editing the design.

Properties of urls
#edit_urlstring

A temporary editing URL for the design.

#view_urlstring

A temporary viewing URL for the design.

#created_atinteger

When the design was created in Canva, as a Unix timestamp (in seconds since the Unix Epoch).

#updated_atinteger

When the design was last updated in Canva, as a Unix timestamp (in seconds since the Unix Epoch).

#titlestring
Optional

The design title.

#thumbnailThumbnail
Optional

A thumbnail image representing the object.

Properties of thumbnail
#widthinteger

The width of the thumbnail image in pixels.

#heightinteger

The height of the thumbnail image in pixels.

#urlstring

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.

#page_countinteger
Optional

The total number of pages in the design. Some design types don't have pages (for example, Canva docs).

{
"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
}
}
json

To get started, generate an access token or provide your own below