Canva Connect API Integration & Design Approvals
Run Canva on autopilot. Keep the veto.
50 actions11 triggers
Brand templates autofill and designs ship before you've seen what went out. Rills proposes every Canva action, and you approve before anything leaves the queue.
Interactive. No signup. 14 days free · approvals always free.
Most automation fires first, asks later. Rills shows you the change before it ships.
Every consequential design action from Canva arrives on your phone first. Approve in seconds. Decline without explaining yourself. Workflows wait, paused at zero cost, until you decide.
Queue 3
Autofill 6 brand templates with this month's product data?
6 templates · last autofill run 14 days ago
Same dataset used in March batch, 0 errors
Export job queued but not started
Free to wait. Free to think.
Approvals and logic don't cost a credit. Pause a workflow for three hours or three weeks. The price is the same: zero. You only pay when something real happens: an AI call, an outbound action.
Approve from your phone in five seconds.
Swipe right when you're sure. Decline when you're not. Between meetings, mid-coffee, on the train. No dashboard to babysit, no inbox triage, no 3am stomach-drop wondering what shipped while you slept.
Routine cases graduate themselves.
Every approval feeds a confidence score for that exact workflow shape. The obvious cases (the ones you've green-lit fifty times) start running on their own. The judgment calls still come to you.
About Canva automation
A design approval request comes in, a brand template is ready to autofill, and an export job is waiting to fire. Canva Connect API automation can handle all of it, but the same speed that clears your queue is what ships the wrong logo variant to a client before you had a chance to look.
When Canva Connect API runs unsupervised
The moment you let automation act on design events without a review step, the consequences show up in your client's inbox, not in your workflow log.
- Autofill a brand template with data fires with stale or mismatched data, and the finished design goes to export before anyone notices the wrong product name.
- Create a new design spins up off-brand assets from a trigger like
design_approval_requestedbefore the brief has been confirmed. - Reply to a comment thread posts a response to a client in your voice, based on a
design_mentionevent, with context the AI read wrong. - Resize a design to new dimensions hits every linked asset when a
share_designevent fires, including ones that were not ready for resizing. - Upload an asset from a URL pulls in an external file and attaches it to live brand folders without a check on whether the source is current.
What Rills does inside Canva Connect API
Rills watches for events like design_approval_requested and suggestion, then proposes the right action, whether that is autofilling a brand template, posting a comment reply, or kicking off an export job, and holds it until you approve.
The design still goes out; you just see the autofill and the export before it does.
When Canva Connect API events should and shouldn't act on their own
Not every event in your design category carries the same risk. Some are routine enough to approve in one tap; others carry enough client-facing weight that you want to review the full proposal before anything moves.
suggestion: Low-stakes, internal note, routine enough to graduate to autonomous once the pattern is established.team_invite: Predictable and low-risk once you have approved the same invite pattern two or three times.folder_access_requested: Straightforward access grant that follows a clear rule, safe to automate after a few confirmed approvals.design_approval_requested: Always needs your review; a wrong approval or rejection reaches a client directly and cannot be quietly undone.design_approval_response: The response acts on a client relationship; one misread event and the wrong approval decision ships to the requester.share_design: Sending a design externally is irreversible; approve Canva Connect API share actions manually every time until the pattern is airtight.
What wakes Rills up in Canva
When these events fire, Rills proposes the next move and waits for your call.
Comment
Fires when a comment, reply, assignment, resolution, or mention occurs on a design the user can see
Design Access Requested
Fires when a Canva user requests access to a design owned by the receiving team user
Design Approval Requested
Fires when the connected user is named as a reviewer on a design approval
Design Approval Response
Fires when a reviewer responds to a design approval the user requested
Share Design
Fires when a design is shared with the connected user or their team
What Rills can do in Canva
6 of 50 actions across reads, writes, and updates.
- 01
Upload an asset to the user's library
Uploads image, video, or audio files into your Canva library so you can easily insert them into designs and templates. This lets you build a reusable collection of branded media assets like logos, product photos, and promotional videos.
- 02
Autofill a brand template with data
Automatically fill a brand template with your data to generate personalized designs in bulk, such as customized social posts, product cards, or marketing materials without manual design work.
- 03
Create a new design
Creates a new blank or templated Canva design that you can customize and share, with the option to start from a preset format, custom dimensions, existing design, or brand template.
- 04
Get a design's metadata
Retrieve essential information about a specific design including who owns it, its thumbnail, and links to view or edit it. Use this to check a design's current status after making changes or updates.
- 05
List the user's designs
Retrieve a list of all your designs with filtering and search capabilities to find specific projects or organize your design portfolio. This helps you quickly locate designs or programmatically access your recent work.
- 06
Export a design to a file format
Converts a Canva design into a downloadable file format like PNG, JPG, PDF, or video, making it ready to share or publish anywhere. This lets you automatically deliver polished designs to your website, social media, or clients without manual downloads.