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Automate Canva

Keep your Canva designs moving without opening the editor: export finished designs as PDF or PNG on a schedule, hear when a new design shows up in your account, and start each week's post from a brand template with the date already filled in. You tell your AI assistant what should happen, review the plan it shows you, and the job then runs on its own timetable.

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Try asking

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every Friday at 5pm, export the Canva designs I edited this week as PDFs and email the download links to me at me@studio.com.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

Ideas

What you can automate in Canva

Fresh download links for the designs you share every week, a backup of what you edited, and a note whenever someone adds a design. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.
On a schedule

Back up this week's Canva designs as PDFs

Every Friday you get PDF download links for each design you edited that week, ready to save.

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Hourly

Hear in Slack when a new Canva design appears

Your channel gets the title and edit link of any design created in your Canva account since the last check.

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On a schedule

Get a weekly PNG of your specials board

Each Monday morning you receive current PNG links for one named design, so the latest version is ready to print or post.

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On a schedule

Start each week's update from your brand template

A new design built from your template, with the date already filled in, is waiting for you every Monday.

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Any other automation you can describe in words

Your own rules, schedule and AI steps with Canva, plus any other app. Describe it and your assistant builds it.

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Build your own

Build any Canva automation you can describe

The ideas above are ready-made starting points, not a fixed list. Describe what Canva should do in your own words, with your conditions, other apps or an AI step, and your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

  • Your own rules

    Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.

  • Any number of apps

    One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.

  • AI where it helps

    Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.

  • On a schedule or on each event

    Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

For example, ask your assistant

Every Monday, list the Canva designs in my Social folder that were edited last week and send me a summary with links.

When I add a row with a headline to my Google Sheet, create a Canva design from my brand template with that text filled in.

When a new blog post is published in WordPress, create a Canva social graphic from my template with the post title, save the export to Google Drive, and post it to Slack for review.

Beyond chat

Have Canva work when you're not in the chat

Connecting Canva to ChatGPT or Claude lets you ask about it while you chat. ClickRuntime handles the part that should happen on its own: checks on a schedule and actions on each new event, set up from the same chat and running after you close it.

Setup

Connect Canva

Canva is connected through an integration you create in Canva's developer portal. It stays private to your own account and team, so no Canva review is needed before you use it.

Canva

Design

  1. In Canva, open the Connect API developer page and create a new integration.
  2. Set its redirect URL to https://clickruntime.com/oauth/callback.
  3. Choose the scopes your automations need, for example design:meta:read, design:content:read, design:content:write and asset:read.
  4. Copy the client ID and generate a client secret.
  5. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, open Connections, pick Canva, enter the client ID and secret, then authorize your account.

Good to know

Canva limits that affect automations

  • Brand templates and autofill only work on Canva plans that include brand templates, and some of those endpoints need Canva Enterprise.
  • Export download links expire after a short time, so automations send fresh links on each run instead of storing old ones.
  • Canva refresh tokens can be used once only. ClickRuntime saves the new token after every refresh, so leave the connection in place rather than reusing the same credentials elsewhere.
  • An integration that has not been through Canva's review works only for the account and team of the person who created it.

FAQ

Questions about automating Canva

Which Canva designs can an automation reach?
The designs in the account that authorized your integration, within the scopes you picked. It can list and search them by title, read their details, export them and, with write access, create new ones from brand templates.
Why do the PDF and PNG links stop working after a while?
Canva's export URLs are temporary by design. Each scheduled run starts a new export and sends links that are valid at that moment, so download them soon after they arrive.
Can it fill in a brand template for me?
Yes, if your Canva plan includes brand templates. The automation reads the template's fillable fields, puts in values such as this week's date, and sends you the edit link of the new design.
Will I know immediately when a design is added?
New designs are found by checking your account on a schedule, hourly in the ready-made automation, rather than by an instant push from Canva.
Is there an AI charge on top?
The Canva automations listed here do not use AI at all. Where you do add a summary or rewrite step, it uses the AI included in your ClickRuntime plan, with no separate AI key to supply.
Is this a Canva connector for ChatGPT or Claude?
Not for chatting with Canva data. A chat connector lets your assistant read and change Canva while you're in the conversation. ClickRuntime is for the work that should happen without you: you set up an automation from the chat once, and it keeps running on a schedule or on each Canva event.

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