The Adobe Creative Cloud Libraries API Is Available Now!

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— Erin Finnegan, Community Engineer, Creative Cloud.

This blog post is for developers who are looking to integrate Adobe Creative Cloud Libraries with their applications so that their users can easily use creative assets saved in Libraries right within their application(s). To get started right away, check out the Creative Cloud Libraries API documentation and our quick start guide.

The Problem and Our Solution

Creating amazing digital experiences and meeting the ever-increasing demands of content velocity is tougher than ever. It requires collaboration amongst different teams, each with unique skills and expertise. As a result, creatives often struggle to meet productivity expectations while staying in sync with the rest of their team. We at Adobe are passionate about making the creative world more connected and productive.

Today, we are excited to announce the availability of the Creative Cloud Libraries API to do just that. Adobe Creative Cloud Libraries enables users to capture, organize and share frequently used assets and creative elements across projects, devices, Creative Cloud apps, and teams to produce consistent experiences. According to a recent Pfeiffer report, Creative Cloud Libraries can make creative workflows in an organization up to 8X faster.

As creative processes and cross functional responsibilities continue to become more complex and agile, creating content that customers interact with is no longer confined to the design team. Video, product design, graphic design, marketing and social media teams all create content and many times, different teams use different apps, but all of them are ultimately working on the same projects and the same tight deadlines. With the Creative Cloud Libraries API, developers can unlock key Libraries related workflows for end-users by bringing key creative elements right within their applications.

For Example, Creative Cloud for Google Workspace

By using an app that is integrated with Creative Cloud Libraries, users no longer need to switch between siloed applications to access frequently used creative elements like colors, character styles, logos, graphics, and other brand assets. This gives them more time to focus on creating engaging experiences. For example, the Creative Cloud for Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) integration, enables creatives and stakeholders to access and use creative elements stored in Creative Cloud Libraries directly from Google Slides and Docs to keep your assets on-hand and your projects on-brand.

Adobe’s new Add-on for Google Workspace lets you add brand colors, character styles and graphics from Creative Cloud Libraries to Google Workspace apps like Docs and Slides. You can also save styles and assets back to Creative Cloud

To get started, check out the Creative Cloud Libraries API documentation and our quick start guide.

Check Out Our Supported Features

The Creative Cloud Libraries API lets you bring the following features into your applications:

• Retrieve/Browse Libraries — Creative Cloud Libraries API enables you to get details/metadata of one or more Libraries in a user(s) account. Additionally, you can get a list of elements or information about a specific element in a Library. This provides easy access to creative elements right within your application.
• Create Libraries and elements — Enable your users to create libraries and to add creative elements to their Libraries within your application so that they can start using these creative elements in their favorite Creative Cloud applications right away.
• Get renditions of elements in Libraries — By leveraging the Libraries API, you can make the experience of accessing and using the creative elements in your application rich, contextual and more user friendly by getting the renditions of creative elements that are of Adobe specific file formats such as PSD/AI/IDD.

The Adobe Creative Cloud integration with Google Workspace leverages these features of the API along with the new Google Workspace add-ons framework to create connected and productive workflows for design and marketing teams working across Google’s workspace apps such as Gmail, Docs and Slides.

Get Inspired

If you are looking for inspiration for your first application, check out some of the applications that have already integrated with the Creative Cloud Libraries API:

• Google Workspace
• Camera IQ
• MURAL

Get Started

These are just a few examples and there are so many possibilities! To learn more about other exciting stuff you can do with the Creative Cloud Libraries API, head over to our documentation to learn more.

1. To get started, get your credentials from the Adobe Developer Console
2. Then take a look at our Quick start guides to make your first API call

• Quick start with CURL
• Quick start with Node.js

3. Check out the API reference documentation for all the details on the API

Join the community

This is just the beginning! We are continuously working behind the scenes to further improve the API and documentation and would appreciate any feedback you might have about these.

For any questions, you can check out the developer forums. And you can submit pull requests or submit issues on either of our open source repos:

• CC Libraries org on GitHub
• CC Libraries Documentation repo on GitHub

We can’t wait to see the exciting applications that you end up building with the Libraries API to solve your unique needs and use cases.

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