Create design resize job

To use this API, your integration must act on behalf of a user that's on a Canva plan with premium features (such as Canva Pro).

Starts a new asynchronous job to create a resized copy of a design. The new resized design is added to the top level of the user's projects(opens in a new tab or window) (root folder).

To resize a design into a new design, you can either:

  • Use a preset design type.
  • Set height and width dimensions for a custom design.

Note the following behaviors and restrictions when resizing designs:

  • Designs can be resized to a maximum area of 25,000,000 pixels squared.
  • Resizing designs using the Connect API always creates a new design. In-place resizing is currently not available in the Connect API, but can be done in the Canva UI.
  • Resizing a multi-page design results in all pages of the design being resized. Resizing a section of a design is only available in the Canva UI.
  • Canva docs(opens in a new tab or window) can't be resized, and other design types can't be resized to a Canva doc.
  • Canva Code designs can't be resized, and other design types can't be resized to a Canva Code design.

For more information on the workflow for using asynchronous jobs, see API requests and responses. You can check the status and get the results of resize jobs created with this API using the Get design resize job API.

HTTP method and URL path

POST https://api.canva.com/rest/v1/resizes

This operation is rate limited to 20 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):

  • design:content:read
  • design:content:write

Capabilities

The user must have at least one of the following capabilities:

  • resize

Header parameters

Authorizationstring
Required

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

For example: Authorization: Bearer {token}

Content-Typestring
Required

Indicates the media type of the information sent in the request. This must be set to application/json.

For example: Content-Type: application/json

Body parameters

design_idstring
Required

The design ID.

design_typeDesignTypeInput
Required

The desired design type.

Provide the common design type.

typestring
Required

Available values: The only valid value is preset.

namestring
Required

The name of the design type.

Available values:

Provide the width and height to define a custom design type.

typestring
Required

Available values: The only valid value is custom.

widthinteger
Required

The width of the design, in pixels.

Minimum: 40

Maximum: 8000

heightinteger
Required

The height of the design, in pixels.

Minimum: 40

Maximum: 8000

Example request

Examples for using the /v1/resizes endpoint:

curl --request POST 'https://api.canva.com/rest/v1/resizes' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer {token}' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{
"design_id": "DAGirp_1ZUA",
"design_type": {
"type": "custom",
"width": 1000,
"height": 1500
}
}'
SH
const fetch = require("node-fetch");
fetch("https://api.canva.com/rest/v1/resizes", {
method: "POST",
headers: {
"Authorization": "Bearer {token}",
"Content-Type": "application/json",
},
body: JSON.stringify({
"design_id": "DAGirp_1ZUA",
"design_type": {
"type": "custom",
"width": 1000,
"height": 1500
}
}),
})
.then(async (response) => {
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);
})
.catch(err => console.error(err));
JS
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/resizes"))
.header("Authorization", "Bearer {token}")
.header("Content-Type", "application/json")
.method("POST", HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.ofString("{\"design_id\": \"DAGirp_1ZUA\", \"design_type\": {\"type\": \"custom\", \"width\": 1000, \"height\": 1500}}"))
.build();
HttpResponse<String> response = HttpClient.newHttpClient().send(
request,
HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString()
);
System.out.println(response.body());
}
}
JAVA
import requests
headers = {
"Authorization": "Bearer {token}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
}
data = {
"design_id": "DAGirp_1ZUA",
"design_type": {
"type": "custom",
"width": 1000,
"height": 1500
}
}
response = requests.post("https://api.canva.com/rest/v1/resizes",
headers=headers,
json=data
)
print(response.json())
PY
using System.Net.Http;
var client = new HttpClient();
var request = new HttpRequestMessage
{
Method = HttpMethod.Post,
RequestUri = new Uri("https://api.canva.com/rest/v1/resizes"),
Headers =
{
{ "Authorization", "Bearer {token}" },
},
Content = new StringContent(
"{\"design_id\": \"DAGirp_1ZUA\", \"design_type\": {\"type\": \"custom\", \"width\": 1000, \"height\": 1500}}",
Encoding.UTF8,
"application/json"
),
};
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"
"strings"
)
func main() {
payload := strings.NewReader(`{
"design_id": "DAGirp_1ZUA",
"design_type": {
"type": "custom",
"width": 1000,
"height": 1500
}
}`)
url := "https://api.canva.com/rest/v1/resizes"
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)
req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer {token}")
req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}
GO
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.canva.com/rest/v1/resizes",
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
'Authorization: Bearer {token}',
'Content-Type: application/json',
),
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
"design_id" => "DAGirp_1ZUA",
"design_type" => [
"type" => "custom",
"width" => 1000,
"height" => 1500
]
])
));
$response = curl_exec($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/resizes')
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request['Authorization'] = 'Bearer {token}'
request['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
request.body = <<REQUEST_BODY
{
"design_id": "DAGirp_1ZUA",
"design_type": {
"type": "custom",
"width": 1000,
"height": 1500
}
}
REQUEST_BODY
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:

jobDesignResizeJob

Details about the design resize job.

idstring

The design resize job ID.

statusstring

Status of the design resize job.

Available values:

  • in_progress
  • success
  • failed
resultDesignResizeJobResult
Optional

Design has been created and saved to user's root (projects(opens in a new tab or window)) folder.

designDesignSummary

Basic details about the design, such as the design's ID, title, and URL.

idstring

The design ID.

urlsDesignLinks

A temporary set of URLs for viewing or editing the design.

edit_urlstring

A temporary editing URL for the design. This URL is only accessible to the user that made the API request, and is designed to support return navigation workflows.

This is not a permanent URL, it is only valid for 30 days.

view_urlstring

A temporary viewing URL for the design. This URL is only accessible to the user that made the API request, and is designed to support return navigation workflows.

This is not a permanent URL, it is only valid for 30 days.

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.

urlstring
Optional

URL of the design.

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.

page_countinteger
Optional

The total number of pages in the design. Some design types don't have pages (for example, Canva docs).

errorDesignResizeError
Optional

If the design resize job fails, this object provides details about the error.

codestring

Available values:

  • thumbnail_generation_error
  • design_resize_error
  • create_design_error
messagestring

A human-readable description of what went wrong.

Example responses

In progress job

{
"job": {
"id": "450a76e7-f96f-43ae-9c37-0e1ce492ac72",
"status": "in_progress"
}
}
JSON

Successfully completed job

{
"job": {
"id": "450a76e7-f96f-43ae-9c37-0e1ce492ac72",
"status": "success",
"result": {
"design": {
"id": "DAGirp_1ZUA",
"title": "My summer holiday",
"thumbnail": {
"url": "https://document-export.canva.com/Vczz9/zF9vzVtdADc/2/thumbnail/0001.png?<query-string>"
},
"urls": {
"edit_url": "https://www.canva.com/design/DAGhRehVa2c/0L_1s4UXSpZhls8EtPaRKw/edit",
"view_url": "https://www.canva.com/design/DAGhRehVa2c/0L_1s4UXSpZhls8EtPaRKw/view"
},
"created_at": 1742856750,
"updated_at": 1742856752,
"page_count": 5
}
}
}
}
JSON

Failed job

{
"job": {
"id": "450a76e7-f96f-43ae-9c37-0e1ce492ac72",
"status": "failed",
"error": {
"code": "design_resize_error",
"message": "Failed to resize the design"
}
}
}
JSON

Try it out

Step 1: Enter your access token

To get started, generate an access token or provide your own below