The Canny API lets you communicate with Canny and build your own tools using Canny's data. You can read and write information to and from Canny using the API. Check out the docs below:
What you can do with the API:
Boards:
Fetch a board
List all boards
Categories:
Fetch a category
List all categories
Create a category
Delete a category
Changelog:
Fetch changelog entries and their corresponding details
Create a changelog entry
List all changelog entries
Comments:
Fetch a specific comment, or a list of comments for a Post, Board, or Author
Retrieve comment details, including the comment body
Create a new comment
Delete an existing comment
Companies:
List all companies
Create a company
Update a company
Delete a company
Opportunities
List all opportunities
Posts:
Fetch a specific post, or a list of posts by board or user
Return a list of posts. Include parameters to specify board, user, query, pagination, filtering, and sorting
Retrieve the details of an existing post
Create a new post
Edit a post
Update a post's status
Tag/Untag a post
Fetch a list of status changes, sorted chronologically
Create, list, and retrieve Tags
Users:
Find, create, and delete users
Vote on behalf of a user
Fetch a specific vote, or a list of votes associated with a Post, Board, or Author.
Delete votes
Webhooks
By setting up webhooks, your server will be notified of Canny events as they happen. For example, if a user creates a new post, we would send a request to your server to let you know.
You can set up webhooks for your account in the API & Webhooks settings page.
Events:
post.created — Occurs when a new post is created.
post.deleted — Occurs when a post is deleted.
post.jira_issue_linked — Occurs when a Jira issue is linked to a post.
post.jira_issue_unlinked — Occurs when a Jira issue is unlinked from a post.
post.status_changed — Occurs when a post's status is changed.
comment.created — Occurs when a new comment is created.
comment.deleted — Occurs when a comment is deleted.
vote.created — Occurs when a user votes on a post.
vote.deleted — Occurs when a user unvotes on a post.
AI
For Canny accounts using the Canny Inbox, we offer direct access to the API to enqueue feedback for extraction and deduplication. This allows you to programmatically send feedback to Canny for processing.