Canva
OfficialCreates and manages Canva designs programmatically, letting you generate visual content, autofill templates, and export designs as PDFs or images.
What it does
- Create new Canva designs from templates
- Autofill design templates with custom content
- Search existing Canva designs
- Export designs as PDF or image files
- Manage design elements and layouts
- Generate visual content automatically
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About Canva
Canva is an official MCP server published by canva that provides AI assistants with tools and capabilities via the Model Context Protocol. Canva MCP server. Create designs, access brand kits, and export assets via Canva Connect API. Automate design workflows from AI clients. It is categorized under ai ml. This server exposes 16 tools that AI clients can invoke during conversations and coding sessions.
How to install
You can install Canva in your AI client of choice. Use the install panel on this page to get one-click setup for Cursor, Claude Desktop, VS Code, and other MCP-compatible clients. This server runs locally on your machine via the stdio transport.
License
Canva is released under the MIT license. This is a permissive open-source license, meaning you can freely use, modify, and distribute the software.
Tools (16)
Get a list of designs from the user's Canva account with pagination and filtering options
Create a new design using a specified template or from scratch with custom dimensions
Retrieve detailed information about a specific design including elements and properties
Update design properties such as title, elements, text content, or images
Delete a specific design from the user's Canva account
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