The assets endpoint lets you upload assets to a user's Canva library. You can directly upload assets from the user’s local storage system, name and tag the assets, get information about the assets, or update and delete assets using this endpoint. For more information about assets, see Canva concepts.

The assets APIs support images and videos.

Images

Image files must be smaller than 50 MB (SVG files have a lower limit, see below), and we accept the following file formats:

JPEG
PNG
HEIC
Single-frame GIFs
TIFF
Single-frame WEBP
SVG

SVG files

SVG files must be smaller than 3 MB.

SVG files are validated when you upload them. If a file contains a blocked element or attribute, the upload job fails with the import_failed error code. Blocked items include:

Scripting and unsafe elements, such as script, foreignObject, a, and switch
Event handler attributes, such as onload and onclick
Animation elements, such as animate and set
Font elements, such as font and font-face
Deprecated elements, such as altGlyph, cursor, and tref

This list isn't exhaustive and might change.

Videos

Video files must be smaller than 500 MB, and we accept the following file formats:

M4V
Matroska (MKV)
MP4 video
MPEG
QuickTime
WebM

Assets APIs

Create asset upload job: Create an asynchronous job to upload an asset.
Get asset upload job: Get the status and results of an upload asset job.
Create asset upload job via URL: Create an asynchronous job to upload an asset from a URL.
Get asset upload job via URL: Get the status and results of job to upload asset from a URL.
Get asset: Get the metadata for an asset in the user's Projects⁠(opens in a new tab or window).
Update asset: Update the metadata for an asset in the users Projects⁠(opens in a new tab or window).
Delete asset: Delete an asset from the user's Projects⁠(opens in a new tab or window).