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This API is currently provided as a preview. Be aware of the following:

  • There might be unannounced breaking changes.
  • Any breaking changes to preview APIs won't produce a new API version.
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Starts a new asynchronous job to merge design pages by applying page operations (such as insert, move, or delete) to produce a new design or modify an existing one.

When the job completes successfully, the job result includes metadata for the created or updated design.

<Note>

At this stage, only a single operation per request is supported by default, and passing multiple operations will fail. Contact Canva to enable multi-operation mode for your app.

</Note> <Note>

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 jobs created with this API using the Get design merge job API.

</Note>
post/v1/merges

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.canva.com/rest
  • URL: https://api.canva.com/rest/v1/merges
  • Auth: OAuth 2 (authorization code, authorization URL https://www.canva.com/api/oauth/authorize, token URL https://api.canva.com/rest/v1/oauth/token, scopes: design:content:write, design:meta:read)

Request body

OR

Example request

{
  "type": "create_new_design",
  "operations": [
    {
      "type": "insert_pages",
      "source": {
        "type": "design",
        "design_id": "DAFVztcvd9z",
        "page_numbers": [
          1,
          2
        ]
      },
      "after_page_number": 2
    }
  ],
  "title": "My merged design"
}

Response

OK

Example response

{
  "job": {
    "id": "a7by3wd-abc123",
    "result": {
      "design": {
        "id": "DAFVztcvd9z",
        "title": "My summer holiday",
        "url": "https://www.canva.com/design/DAFVztcvd9z/edit",
        "thumbnail": {
          "width": 595,
          "height": 335,
          "url": "https://document-export.canva.com/Vczz9/zF9vzVtdADc/2/thumbnail/0001.png?<query-string>"
        },
        "urls": {
          "edit_url": "https://www.canva.com/api/design/eyJhbGciOiJkaXIiLCJlbmMiOiJBMjU2R0NNIiwiZXhwaXJ5IjoxNzQyMDk5NDAzMDc5fQ..GKLx2hrJa3wSSDKQ.hk3HA59qJyxehR-ejzt2DThBW0cbRdMBz7Fb5uCpwD-4o485pCf4kcXt_ypUYX0qMHVeZ131YvfwGPIhbk-C245D8c12IIJSDbZUZTS7WiCOJZQ.sNz3mPSQxsETBvl_-upMYA/edit",
          "view_url": "https://www.canva.com/api/design/eyJhbGciOiJkaXIiLCJlbmMiOiJBMjU2R0NNIiwiZXhwaXJ5IjoxNzQyMDk5NDAzMDc5fQ..GKLx2hrJa3wSSDKQ.hk3HA59qJyxehR-ejzt2DThBW0cbRdMBz7Fb5uCpwD-4o485pCf4kcXt_ypUYX0qMHVeZ131YvfwGPIhbk-C245D8c12IIJSDbZUZTS7WiCOJZQ.sNz3mPSQxsETBvl_-upMYA/view"
        },
        "created_at": 1377396000,
        "updated_at": 1692928800,
        "page_count": 3
      }
    },
    "error": {
      "message": "The merge job failed due to an internal error."
    }
  }
}

Changes

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      added the new asset_not_ready enum value to the response property for the response status

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      added the new asset_not_ready enum value to the response property for the response status

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      added the new asset_not_ready enum value to the response property for the response status

    • warning

      added the new asset_not_ready enum value to the response property for the response status

    • warning

      added the new asset_not_ready enum value to the response property for the response status