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The Canva Apps SDK, Connect APIs, and MCP are now unified in the Canva Developers SDK. Learn more⁠(opens in a new tab or window).

Canva Developers SDK

The Canva Apps SDK, Connect APIs, and MCP are now unified in the Canva Developers SDK. Learn more⁠(opens in a new tab or window).

Tools

Discovery

search-designs get-design get-design-content get-design-pages resolve-shortlink

Generation

generate-design create-design-from-candidate create-design get-create-design-async-job separate-image-layers get-separate-image-layers-job

Design operations

copy-design resize-design merge-designs import-design-from-url

Editing

start-editing-transaction perform-editing-operations commit-editing-transaction cancel-editing-transaction

Images

generate-image get-generate-image-job remove-background

Brand templates and autofill

search-brand-templates create-brand-template-draft publish-brand-template list-brand-kits create-design-from-brand-template get-brand-template-dataset get-design-dataset autofill-design

Folders

create-folder list-folder-items search-folders move-item-to-folder

Comments

comment-on-design reply-to-comment list-comments list-replies

Assets and export

upload-asset-from-url create-upload-url get-assets get-export-formats export-design

Help

remove-background

Remove the background from an image, leaving the subject on a transparent backdrop.

Use remove-background when the user wants an image's background removed or made transparent. The tool keeps only the subject. It doesn't crop the image, replace the background with a new scene, or change any other content.

Example prompt

"Remove the background from my product photo."

Pass the image as sourceMedia, a { "type": "MEDIA", "id": "<media ID>" } reference to an image already in the user's Canva account. To use a file the user attached, upload it first with create-upload-url and use the returned mediaId.

Example response

IDs, URLs, and tokens below are placeholders; field names and structure are exactly as returned.

{
  "results": [ { "type": "MEDIA", "id": "MEDIA_EXAMPLE", "version": "1" } ]
}

JSON

Returns the result in results as a MEDIA reference to a new image with a transparent background. The source image isn't changed.

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