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POST: Render from Studio Template

Learn how you can make a POST request to render from a custom template on Orshot

What are Studio Templates?

Templates that you've designed in Orshot Studio are Studio Templates. These templates are custom designs that you can customize and paramterize

You can render content from a custom template that you've designed using Orshot Studio by making POST request to Orshot API

https://api.orshot.com/v1/studio/render

POST Request

await fetch("https://api.orshot.com/v1/studio/render", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    Authorization: "Bearer <ORSHOT_API_KEY>",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    templateId: <TEMPLATE_ID>,
    modifications: {
      canvasBackgroundColor: "#eff2fa", // Supports CSS Color Values(HEX, RGBA, linear-gradient)
      canvasBackgroundImage: "https://acme.com/public/web-background.png",
      title: "Custom Title",
      imageUrl: "Custom Image URL"
    },
    response : {
      type: "base64",
      format: "png",
      scale: 1,
      includePages: [1, 3] // only for multi-page templates
      fileName: "" // specify custom file name(without extension) for output file
    },
    pdfOptions : { // applicable only if response.format is "pdf"
      margin: "20px",
      rangeFrom: 1, // show only from page 1(set to "null" to show all pages)
      rangeTo: 2 // to page 2(set to "null" to show all pages)
    },
  }),
});

Response Structure

{
  "data": {
    "content": "data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0.....",
    "format": "png",
    "type": "base64",
    "responseTime": 325.22
  }
}

Single Page Templates

  • Templates with only one page
  • Response can be accessed at the value at data.content, it's in string format
  • (base64 format + binary type) response combination isn't supported

Multi Page Templates

  • Templates with more than one pages
  • Response can be accessed at data.content, it's in array format with content

Parameters

  • templateId: Each Studio template has a unique templateId(integer) which you can see on Template's page or payground
  • modifications: Object structure of the dynamic modidifcations that you've set in the template. Additionally, you can also use style parameters to dynamically set styles for your layers, learn more
  • response.format
  • response.type
  • response.fileName: works only when the response format is either url or binary, can be used to specify custom file name for the output files. In carousel templates, the file name will be suffixed by -page-1, -page-2 etc. Also if response/format is set to url, the custom file name will be suffixed with -[UNIQUE_HASH] to make sure it's a unique file

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