Canva MCP Server

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Canva runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 218 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 12 May 2026.

Create designs, manage assets, and automate design generation from external workflows

Installs per day peak 64 · avg 35 · -8% w/w

a month agotoday

218

Installs / week

pypi · mcparmory-canva

Stars

2 open issues

12 May 2026

Last commit

from GitHub

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License

Python

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Canva every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add canva -- uvx mcparmory-canva

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "canva": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcparmory-canva"
      ]
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.canva]
command = "uvx"
args = ["mcparmory-canva"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "canva": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcparmory-canva"
      ]
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "canva": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcparmory-canva"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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Canva — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Canva?

Canva runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the pypi package mcparmory-canva was installed 218 times last week.

How do I connect Canva?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls mcparmory-canva straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use Canva?

The pypi package mcparmory-canva was installed 218 times in the last week. Week over week that is -8%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is Canva open source?

We cannot say either way: written in Python, 32 stars on GitHub and 2 open issues, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.