Get profile of the current user

Currently, this returns the display name of the user account associated with the provided access token. More user information is expected to be included in the future.

HTTP method and URL path

GET https://api.canva.com/rest/v1/users/me/profile

This operation is rate limited to 10 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):

profile: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}

Example request

Examples for using the /v1/users/me/profile endpoint:

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

const fetch = require("node-fetch");

fetch("https://api.canva.com/rest/v1/users/me/profile", {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer {token}",
  },
})
  .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/users/me/profile"))
            .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

import requests

headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer {token}"
}

response = requests.get("https://api.canva.com/rest/v1/users/me/profile",
    headers=headers
)
print(response.json())

using System.Net.Http;

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

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

CSHARP

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	url := "https://api.canva.com/rest/v1/users/me/profile"
	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)
	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer {token}")

	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/users/me/profile",
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    'Authorization: Bearer {token}',
  ),
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);

if (empty($err)) {
  echo $response;
} else {
  echo "Error: " . $err;
}

PHP

require 'net/http'
require 'uri'

url = URI('https://api.canva.com/rest/v1/users/me/profile')
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request['Authorization'] = 'Bearer {token}'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

RUBY

Success response

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

profileUserProfile

Profile for the user, consisting of the display name and other attributes.

Properties of profile

display_namestring

OPTIONAL

The name of the user as shown in the Canva UI.

Example response

{
  "profile": {
    "display_name": "Jane Doe"
  }
}

JSON