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List designs

List all the user's designs.

Lists metadata for all the designs in a Canva user's projects. You can also:

Use search terms to filter the listed designs.
Show designs either created by, or shared with the user.
Sort the results.

HTTP method and URL path

GET https://api.canva.com/rest/v1/designs

This operation is rate limited to 100 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):

design:meta:read

For more information, see Scopes.

Header parameters

#Authorizationstring

Required

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

For example: Authorization: Bearer {token}

Query parameters

#querystring

Optional

Lets you search the user's designs, and designs shared with the user, using a search term or terms.

#continuationstring

Optional

If the success response contains a continuation token, the list contains more designs you can list. You can use this token as a query parameter and retrieve more designs from the list, for example /v1/designs?continuation={continuation}.

To retrieve all of a user's designs, you might need to make multiple requests.

#ownershipstring

Optional

Filter the list of designs based on the user's ownership of the designs. This can be one of the following:

owned: Designs owned by the user.
shared: Designs shared with the user.
any: Designs owned by and shared with the user.

#sort_bystring

Optional

Sort the list of designs. This can be one of the following:

relevance: (Default) Sort results using a relevance algorithm.
modified_descending: Sort results by the date last modified in descending order.
modified_ascending: Sort results by the date last modified in ascending order.
title_descending: Sort results by title in descending order.
title_ascending: Sort results by title in ascending order.

Example request

Examples for using the /v1/designs endpoint:

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

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}")
            .method("GET", HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.noBody())
            .build();

        HttpResponse<String> response = HttpClient.newHttpClient().send(
            request,
            HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString()
        );
        System.out.println(response.body());
    }
}

java

using System.Net.Http;

var client = new HttpClient();
var request = new HttpRequestMessage
{
  Method = HttpMethod.Get,
  RequestUri = new Uri("https://api.canva.com/rest/v1/designs"),
  Headers =
  {
    { "Authorization", "Bearer {token}" },
  },
};

using (var response = await client.SendAsync(request))
{
  response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();
  var body = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
  Console.WriteLine(body);
};

csharp

Success response

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

#itemsDesign[]

The list of designs.

Properties of items

#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).

#continuationstring

Optional

A continuation token. If the success response contains a continuation token, the list contains more designs you can list. You can use this token as a query parameter and retrieve more designs from the list, for example /v1/designs?continuation={continuation}.

To retrieve all of a user's designs, you might need to make multiple requests.

Example response

{
  "continuation": "RkFGMgXlsVTDbMd:MR3L0QjiaUzycIAjx0yMyuNiV0OildoiOwL0x32G4NjNu4FwtAQNxowUQNMMYN",
  "items": [
    {
      "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

List designs

HTTP method and URL path

Authentication

Header parameters

Query parameters

Example request

Success response

Example response

Try it out

Step 1: Enter your access token