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Create Design

Creates a new Canva design. See the documentation
  • Action
  • Writes data
  • OAuth
  • SDK
  • MCP

IMPLEMENTATION

Call this tool

Connect a user's Canva account once, then configure and run Create Design from your backend or agent.

import { PipedreamClient } from "@pipedream/sdk"

const pd = new PipedreamClient({
  projectId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_PROJECT_ID!,
  clientId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_ID!,
  clientSecret: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_SECRET!,
  projectEnvironment: "production",
})

const result = await pd.actions.run({
  id: "canva-create-design",
  externalUserId: "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
  configuredProps: {
    canva: { authProvisionId: "apn_xxxxxxx" },
    designType: "Design Type",
    title: "Title",
  },
})

console.log(result)

SCHEMA

Inputs

Pipedream supplies the connected account. Your application provides the operation-specific values below. Dynamic inputs are resolved against that user's account.

Create Design inputs
Property Type Description
designType Design Type string
The desired design type
Required
title Title string
The name of the design
Optional
assetId Asset ID string
The ID of the asset to add to the new design
Optional

REFERENCE

Tool details

Behavior hints are published with the component in the Pipedream registry and surface as MCP tool annotations, so an agent can reason about a tool before it calls it.

Registry key
canva-create-design
Version
0.0.8
App
Canva
Authentication
OAuth
Read-only
No
Destructive
No
Open world
Yes