# Canva Scraper (`epctex/canva-scraper`) Actor
Scrape thousands of templates from Canva.com. Extract data on available templates based on keywords. Customize your search and scrape from search, list, or user detail pages for colors, fonts, images, and more!
- **URL**: https://apify.com/epctex/canva-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [epctex](https://apify.com/epctex) (community)
- **Categories:** SEO tools
- **Stats:** 459 total users, 9 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 16 bookmarks
- **User rating**: 4.84 out of 5 stars
## Pricing
Pay per usage
This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher subscription plan you have.
Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-usage
## What's an Apify Actor?
Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".
## How to integrate an Actor?
If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.
In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md):
```bash
npm install apify-client
```
In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md):
```bash
pip install apify-client
```
In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md):
````bash
# MacOS / Linux
curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash
# Windows
irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex
```bash
In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md).
If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).
For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.
For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).
# README
## Actor - Canva Scraper
### Canva scraper
Since Canva doesn't provide a good and free API, this actor should help you to retrieve data from it.
The Canva data scraper supports the following features:
- Search any keyword - You can search any keyword you would like to have and get the results
- Scrape lists - Scrape any list that you'd like to get from Canva
- Scrape users - You can check the users and scrape their created templates.
- Scrape template detail - Scrape very detailed information for each of the templates that you'd like to get.
### Bugs, fixes, updates, and changelog
This scraper is under active development. If you have any feature requests you can create an issue from [here](https://github.com/epctex-support/canva-scraper/issues).
### Input Parameters
The input of this scraper should be JSON containing the list of pages on Canva that should be visited. Possible fields are:
- `search`: (Optional) (String) Keyword that you want to search on Canva.
- `startUrls`: (Optional) (Array) List of Canva URLs. You should only provide search, list, user, or detail URLs.
- `includeReviews`: (Optional) (Boolean) This will add all the reviews that Canva provides into the detail objects. Please keep in mind that the time and resources the actor uses will increase proportionally to the number of reviews.
- `endPage`: (Optional) (Number) Final number of page that you want to scrape. The default is `Infinite`. This applies to all `search` requests and `startUrls` individually.
- `maxItems`: (Optional) (Number) You can limit scraped items. This should be useful when you search through the big lists or search results.
- `proxy`: (Required) (Proxy Object) Proxy configuration.
- `extendOutputFunction`: (Optional) (String) Function that takes a JQuery handle ($) as an argument and returns an object with data.
- `customMapFunction`: (Optional) (String) Function that takes each object's handle as an argument and returns the object with executing the function.
This solution requires the use of **Proxy servers**, either your own proxy servers or you can use [Apify Proxy](https://www.apify.com/docs/proxy).
#### Tip
When you want to scrape over a specific listing URL, just copy and paste the link as one of the **startUrl**.
If you would like to scrape only the first page of a list then put the link for the page and have the `endPage` as 1.
With the last approach that is explained above you can also fetch any interval of pages. If you provide the 5th page of a list and define the `endPage` parameter as 6 then you'll have the 5th and 6th pages only.
#### Compute Unit Consumption
The actor is optimized to run blazing fast and scrape many as listings as possible. Therefore, it forefronts all listing detail requests. If the actor doesn't block very often it'll scrape 100 listings in 2 minutes with ~0.03-0.05 compute units.
#### Canva Scraper Input example
```json
{
"startUrls":[
"https://www.canva.com/posters/templates/",
"https://www.canva.com/templates/?query=baby&continuation=50",
"https://www.canva.com/p/templates/EAFCgIJdXTw-brown-aesthetic-new-dad-fist-bumps-father-s-day-instagram-post/",
"https://www.canva.com/p/donnamoritz/"
],
"search": "baby instagram",
"proxy":{
"useApifyProxy":true
},
"endPage": 3,
"maxItems": 20
}
````
### During the Run
During the run, the actor will output messages letting you know what is going on. Each message always contains a short label specifying which page from the provided list is currently specified.
When items are loaded from the page, you should see a message about this event with a loaded item count and total item count for each page.
If you provide incorrect input to the actor, it will immediately stop with failure state and output an explanation of what is wrong.
### Canva Export
During the run, the actor stores results into a dataset. Each item is a separate item in the dataset.
You can manage the results in any languague (Python, PHP, Node JS/NPM). See the FAQ or our API reference to learn more about getting results from this Canva actor.
### Scraped Canva Properties
The structure of each item in Canva looks like this:
#### Item Detail
```json
{
"id": "EAE2D4Zdd5M",
"url": "https://www.canva.com/p/templates/EAE2D4Zdd5M-baby-instagram-template/",
"title": "Baby Instagram Template",
"breadcrumbs": [
"Baby Instagram Template"
],
"image": "https://marketplace.canva.com/EAE2D4Zdd5M/1/0/1600w/canva-baby-instagram-template-fcw840AqWBM.jpg",
"creatorName": "Azruca",
"creatorLink": "https://www.canva.com/p/azruca/",
"Colors": [
"#f1f1ef",
"#b9e4e9",
"#d17dbc",
"#ebb0a7",
"#f9e487"
],
"Fonts": [
"Blueberry",
"Cerebri",
"Beautiful"
],
"Size": [
"1080 × 1080 px"
]
}
```
### Contact
Please visit us through [epctex.com](https://epctex.com) to see all the products that are available for you. If you are looking for any custom integration or so, please reach out to us through the chat box in [epctex.com](https://epctex.com). In need of support? is at your service.
# Actor input Schema
## `search` (type: `string`):
The keyword that you can search on Canva
## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):
Maximum number of listing items that you want as output. Default is all
## `endPage` (type: `integer`):
The page number that you want to end with. By default there is no end page. This is applies to all search request and startUrls individually.
## `startUrls` (type: `array`):
URLs to start with. It should be user, search, list or detail URLs
## `extendOutputFunction` (type: `string`):
Function that takes a JQuery handle ($) as argument and returns data that will be merged with the default output
## `customMapFunction` (type: `string`):
Function that takes each of the objects as argument and returns data that will be mapped by the function itself.
## `proxy` (type: `object`):
Select proxies to be used by your crawler.
## Actor input object example
```json
{
"search": "baby instagram",
"maxItems": 20,
"endPage": 1,
"startUrls": [
"https://www.canva.com/posters/templates/",
"https://www.canva.com/templates/?query=baby&continuation=50",
"https://www.canva.com/p/templates/EAFCgIJdXTw-brown-aesthetic-new-dad-fist-bumps-father-s-day-instagram-post/",
"https://www.canva.com/p/donnamoritz/"
],
"extendOutputFunction": "($) => { return {} }",
"customMapFunction": "(object) => { return {...object} }",
"proxy": {
"useApifyProxy": true
}
}
```
# API
You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.
## JavaScript example
```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
token: '',
});
// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
"search": "baby instagram",
"maxItems": 20,
"endPage": 1,
"startUrls": [
"https://www.canva.com/posters/templates/",
"https://www.canva.com/templates/?query=baby&continuation=50",
"https://www.canva.com/p/templates/EAFCgIJdXTw-brown-aesthetic-new-dad-fist-bumps-father-s-day-instagram-post/",
"https://www.canva.com/p/donnamoritz/"
],
"extendOutputFunction": ($) => { return {} },
"customMapFunction": (object) => { return {...object} },
"proxy": {
"useApifyProxy": true
}
};
// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("epctex/canva-scraper").call(input);
// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
console.dir(item);
});
// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs
```
## Python example
```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient
# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("")
# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
"search": "baby instagram",
"maxItems": 20,
"endPage": 1,
"startUrls": [
"https://www.canva.com/posters/templates/",
"https://www.canva.com/templates/?query=baby&continuation=50",
"https://www.canva.com/p/templates/EAFCgIJdXTw-brown-aesthetic-new-dad-fist-bumps-father-s-day-instagram-post/",
"https://www.canva.com/p/donnamoritz/",
],
"extendOutputFunction": "($) => { return {} }",
"customMapFunction": "(object) => { return {...object} }",
"proxy": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}
# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("epctex/canva-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
print(item)
# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start
```
## CLI example
```bash
echo '{
"search": "baby instagram",
"maxItems": 20,
"endPage": 1,
"startUrls": [
"https://www.canva.com/posters/templates/",
"https://www.canva.com/templates/?query=baby&continuation=50",
"https://www.canva.com/p/templates/EAFCgIJdXTw-brown-aesthetic-new-dad-fist-bumps-father-s-day-instagram-post/",
"https://www.canva.com/p/donnamoritz/"
],
"extendOutputFunction": "($) => { return {} }",
"customMapFunction": "(object) => { return {...object} }",
"proxy": {
"useApifyProxy": true
}
}' |
apify call epctex/canva-scraper --silent --output-dataset
```
## MCP server setup
```json
{
"mcpServers": {
"apify": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"mcp-remote",
"https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=epctex/canva-scraper",
"--header",
"Authorization: Bearer "
]
}
}
}
```
## OpenAPI specification
```json
{
"openapi": "3.0.1",
"info": {
"title": "Canva Scraper",
"description": "Scrape thousands of templates from Canva.com. Extract data on available templates based on keywords. Customize your search and scrape from search, list, or user detail pages for colors, fonts, images, and more!",
"version": "0.0",
"x-build-id": "WSUNfs5vBMkRIDjwn"
},
"servers": [
{
"url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
}
],
"paths": {
"/acts/epctex~canva-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
"post": {
"operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-epctex-canva-scraper",
"x-openai-isConsequential": false,
"summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
"tags": [
"Run Actor"
],
"requestBody": {
"required": true,
"content": {
"application/json": {
"schema": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
}
}
}
},
"parameters": [
{
"name": "token",
"in": "query",
"required": true,
"schema": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "Enter your Apify token here"
}
],
"responses": {
"200": {
"description": "OK"
}
}
}
},
"/acts/epctex~canva-scraper/runs": {
"post": {
"operationId": "runs-sync-epctex-canva-scraper",
"x-openai-isConsequential": false,
"summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
"tags": [
"Run Actor"
],
"requestBody": {
"required": true,
"content": {
"application/json": {
"schema": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
}
}
}
},
"parameters": [
{
"name": "token",
"in": "query",
"required": true,
"schema": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "Enter your Apify token here"
}
],
"responses": {
"200": {
"description": "OK",
"content": {
"application/json": {
"schema": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
}
}
}
}
}
}
},
"/acts/epctex~canva-scraper/run-sync": {
"post": {
"operationId": "run-sync-epctex-canva-scraper",
"x-openai-isConsequential": false,
"summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
"tags": [
"Run Actor"
],
"requestBody": {
"required": true,
"content": {
"application/json": {
"schema": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
}
}
}
},
"parameters": [
{
"name": "token",
"in": "query",
"required": true,
"schema": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "Enter your Apify token here"
}
],
"responses": {
"200": {
"description": "OK"
}
}
}
}
},
"components": {
"schemas": {
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"required": [
"proxy"
],
"properties": {
"search": {
"title": "Search keyword",
"type": "string",
"description": "The keyword that you can search on Canva"
},
"maxItems": {
"title": "Maximum number of listing items",
"type": "integer",
"description": "Maximum number of listing items that you want as output. Default is all"
},
"endPage": {
"title": "List end page",
"type": "integer",
"description": "The page number that you want to end with. By default there is no end page. This is applies to all search request and startUrls individually."
},
"startUrls": {
"title": "Start URLs",
"type": "array",
"description": "URLs to start with. It should be user, search, list or detail URLs",
"items": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"extendOutputFunction": {
"title": "Extend output function",
"type": "string",
"description": "Function that takes a JQuery handle ($) as argument and returns data that will be merged with the default output"
},
"customMapFunction": {
"title": "Custom map function",
"type": "string",
"description": "Function that takes each of the objects as argument and returns data that will be mapped by the function itself."
},
"proxy": {
"title": "Proxy configuration",
"type": "object",
"description": "Select proxies to be used by your crawler."
}
}
},
"runsResponseSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"data": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"id": {
"type": "string"
},
"actId": {
"type": "string"
},
"userId": {
"type": "string"
},
"startedAt": {
"type": "string",
"format": "date-time",
"example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
},
"finishedAt": {
"type": "string",
"format": "date-time",
"example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
},
"status": {
"type": "string",
"example": "READY"
},
"meta": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"origin": {
"type": "string",
"example": "API"
},
"userAgent": {
"type": "string"
}
}
},
"stats": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"inputBodyLen": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 2000
},
"rebootCount": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"restartCount": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"resurrectCount": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"computeUnits": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
}
}
},
"options": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"build": {
"type": "string",
"example": "latest"
},
"timeoutSecs": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 300
},
"memoryMbytes": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 1024
},
"diskMbytes": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 2048
}
}
},
"buildId": {
"type": "string"
},
"defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
"type": "string"
},
"defaultDatasetId": {
"type": "string"
},
"defaultRequestQueueId": {
"type": "string"
},
"buildNumber": {
"type": "string",
"example": "1.0.0"
},
"containerUrl": {
"type": "string"
},
"usage": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATASET_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATASET_WRITES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 1
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"PROXY_SERPS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
}
}
},
"usageTotalUsd": {
"type": "number",
"example": 0.00005
},
"usageUsd": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATASET_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATASET_WRITES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
"type": "number",
"example": 0.00005
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"PROXY_SERPS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
```