Brand templates

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Get brand template

Get the metadata for one of the user's brand templates.

Brand templates were migrated to use a new ID format in September 2025. If your integration stores brand template IDs, you'll need to migrate to use the new IDs. Old brand template IDs will continue to be accepted for 6 months to give you time to migrate to the new IDs.

To use this API, your integration must act on behalf of a user that's a member of a Canva Enterprise⁠(opens in a new tab or window) organization.

Retrieves the metadata for a brand template.

HTTP method and URL path

GET https://api.canva.com/rest/v1/brand-templates/{brandTemplateId}

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

Authentication and authorization

This endpoint requires a valid access token that acts on behalf of a user.

Scopes

The access token must have all the following scopes (permissions):

brandtemplate:meta:read

Header parameters

Authorizationstring

Required

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

For example: Authorization: Bearer {token}

Path parameters

brandTemplateIdstring

Required

The brand template ID.

Example request

Examples for using the /v1/brand-templates/{brandTemplateId} endpoint:

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

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

fetch("https://api.canva.com/rest/v1/brand-templates/{brandTemplateId}", {
  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/brand-templates/{brandTemplateId}"))
            .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/brand-templates/{brandTemplateId}",
    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/brand-templates/{brandTemplateId}"),
  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/brand-templates/{brandTemplateId}"
	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/brand-templates/{brandTemplateId}",
  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/brand-templates/{brandTemplateId}')
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:

brand_templateBrandTemplate

An object representing a brand template with associated metadata.

idstring

The brand template ID.

titlestring

The brand template title, as shown in the Canva UI.

view_urlstring

A URL Canva users can visit to view the brand template.

create_urlstring

A URL Canva users can visit to create a new design from the template.

created_atinteger

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

updated_atinteger

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

thumbnailThumbnail

Optional

A thumbnail image representing the object.

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.

Example response

{
  "brand_template": {
    "id": "DEMzWSwy3BI",
    "title": "Advertisement Template",
    "view_url": "https://www.canva.com/design/DAE35hE8FA4/view",
    "create_url": "https://www.canva.com/design/DAE35hE8FA4/remix",
    "thumbnail": {
      "width": 595,
      "height": 335,
      "url": "https://document-export.canva.com/Vczz9/zF9vzVtdADc/2/thumbnail/0001.png?<query-string>"
    },
    "created_at": 1704110400,
    "updated_at": 1719835200
  }
}

JSON