---
title: "Read Canvas Edit"
method: GET
path: "/canvases/{canvas_ref}/edit"
tags: ["canvas-actions"]
---

# Read Canvas Edit

`GET /canvases/{canvas_ref}/edit`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.moda.app/v1`
- URL: `https://api.moda.app/v1/canvases/{canvas_ref}/edit`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Read the compact Main Edit, exact time values, and named runtime capability diagnostics.

``validation.export_readiness`` reports whether an mp4 export of this
timeline would pass the export planner's plan-level gates
(``{exportable, reason?, detail?, work_units?, work_unit_budget,
coverage: "plan"}``): source availability and authorization, export
capability audit, and the composited work budget — the same ladder the
export lane enforces, priced with the same hydrated media metadata, so
``valid`` alone is never mistaken for "exportable". Render-time fidelity
refusals (artwork a page cannot render faithfully) are only discoverable by
rendering; they decline at export with the offending entity named.

## Path parameters

- `canvas_ref` string, required

## Headers

- `Moda-Version` '2026-04-12' | '2026-05-01'

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- object

## Other responses

- `401`: Authentication required.
- `402`: Insufficient credits for a metered operation.
- `403`: Permission denied for this scope.
- `404`: Resource not found.
- `409`: Conflict (idempotency / resource state).
- `422`: Request validation failed.
- `429`: Rate limit exceeded.
- `500`: Internal error.

## Changes

- **2026-11-03** `9ac6a3abc0f8`: 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/moda/apis/moda-public-api/changes/canvases/:canvas_ref/edit/get.md)

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