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Honestly, I am surprised Lucidchart makes it a big deal that it is so AI friendly, but it is really AI stupid and AI awful.The core problemThe import API assumes the caller already has clean, structured diagram data and just needs to serialize it. But the actual AI use case is the inverse: I start with unstructured input (a spreadsheet, a doc, a conversation) and must compose the diagram — invent layout, positions, colors, connectors. The API forces me to be a layout engine and a coordinate calculator, which is exactly the work a diagramming tool should own. Every failure I hit traced back to this mismatch.What hurt, ranked by pain: All-or-nothing payloads with opaque validation. A single typo in a 30 KB JSON blob fails the entire diagram, and the error is Expecting ',' at char 1176 — a byte offset, not "shape s5 is malformed." For an agent,

Can the latest version of mermaid be supported in Lucidchart? With the current supported version, I am getting a few syntax error while testing out the default syntax from mermaid website.  Once the flowcharts have been created using the code, can we have the following features? Conditional formatting to update the block, line (arrow) and text color, size, font style. Provide an option to copy the generated flow into a new image so that conditional formatting can be applied as needed.

Hello, i want to create a document, creating a “Diagram as a Code” with Mermaid on Lucid through a REST API.From the Documentation, i only see that in order to create a document, i need to send the following body:{  "product": "lucidchart",  "title": "example",  "parent": 123}but how do I send the actual contents of the diagram?sequenceDiagramAlice->>John: Hello John, how are you?John-->>Alice: Great!Alice-)John: See you later!I read also that there is an alternative way of sending the information, but the documentation and examples on https://developer.lucid.co/reference/createorcopyorimportdocument are not clear to me.Thank you! 

Hi everyone,I've been looking at the capabilities of the new Lucid MCP server and noticed it currently supports editing, adding, and deleting shapes/nodes in a document.Is there a plan to make this direct node-editing functionality available programmatically via standard REST API endpoints? I know there is the AI-driven Edit Document API, but I'm specifically hoping for traditional REST endpoints to update nodes without needing to pass natural language instructions through an LLM.I found similar request here  Any insights on if this is on the roadmap would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!Cheers Tobi 

I’d like to create a mind map tool where I can build a connected mind map for project pursuit. Here’s a simple example:   Project X - End User YEnd User Y will build a facility in [City, State] and will use the following firms Engineering Firm A OEM B Building a filling machine  Using Products 1, 2, and 3  Main point of contact : Person F [First, last name] OEM C  General Contractor D  etc Within each firm listed above, I’d like to drill down to the project specifics to map the Project X. However, for each involved firm, I’d separately map that firm. For example: OEM BLocation  Typical equipment types manufactured  Key contacts Strategy etc I’d like some way to hyperlink the Project X map to separate maps I build, allowing me to click around to different maps as questions are asked to easil

Error POSTing to endpoint (HTTP 400): Request body too large (max 53KB). JSON-RPC error code: -32602.

Hola En Lucidchart aparece mi trabajo en mis archvios en miniatura, pero al darle click en abrir me aparece Hubo un error al cargar el documento. Intenté activar/desactivar el enlace para compartir pero sigue igual, tengo otros trabajos que si abren pero otros marcan el mismo erorr. Por favor ayudenme es el trabajo de meses. 

Hi, I am using https://api.lucid.co/documents/search endpoint for search documents on our domain. But when i try this endpoint, it only returns one record. In our domain we have 40 diagram that i found. My curl is like that;curl --location 'https://api.lucid.co/documents/search' \--header 'Authorization: Bearer my-key \--header 'Lucid-Api-Version: 1' \--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \--data '{"product": ["lucidchart"]}' Only one document returns :( What is the problem, is there a sign for seeing in filter in documents?

Hi team,We are integrating with the Lucid SCIM API (GET /scim/v2/Users) to collect enterprise user data. We've noticed that the API appears to have a server-side pagination limit of 10,000 records — any request with a startIndex greater than 10,000 returns an empty result set (totalResults: 0, Resources: []), even when the totalResults field in earlier responses.Questions: Is there a confirmed server-side limit on for the SCIM Users endpoint? If so, what is it? Is there an alternative pagination mechanism that would allow us to retrieve all users beyond 10,000?

Lucid’s developer documentation is now exposed through a Readme-hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. This allows AI-powered editors and assistants to search and read our documentation inline, covering both the OpenAPI reference (REST + SCIM) and the Extension SDK. Whether you are wiring up an integration or building an editor extension, your agent can now pull relevant documentation while you work. Key Benefits:Seamless Integration: Access Lucid docs directly via any MCP-compatible client. Search as a Tool: Your AI agent can call documentation search tools to find exact references. Setup (Claude Desktop Example)

Hi everyone,As already said by lucidchart the direct access to the “Shared with me” is not available through Rest API endpoint.So I have used the “https://api.lucid.co/folders/search” endpoint to retrieve the folders.Then I have retrieved manually the parent of a folder of “Shared with me” folder for grabing the id of the “Shared with me” folder.But when using the https://api.lucid.co/folders/{id}/contents endpoint with this id, for retrieving the content, of the “Shared with me” folder I get a 403 error despite the scope used (folder:readonly and folder:admin.readonly)The http request is made by an admin user. Is it normal?Best regards.

Hi everyone,Is there a way to display the list of all documents that are in my subscription (in my account).I’m the account owner and I want to list all the documents available.I’m only able to see the number of document in my account (Admin=>Usage data).Is there a way to do that using the Rest Api ?Regards.

I followed this existing post about seeing a custom icon while in development: Unfortunately, I am still not able to get mine to work.  I have the resources folder and I have a png file in there.  Here is my panel.  constructor(client: EditorClient, modelManager: ModelManager) { super(client, { title: 'Quodsi Model', url: 'quodsim-react/index.html?panel=model', // Query param helps the React app identify which panel it is location: PanelLocation.RightDock, iconUrl: 'http://localhost:9900/resources/quodsi-icon1.png', width: 300 });I still see broken link image.  Thoughts?Thanks, Dan

I’d like to automate importing of CVS data but it appears the only API’s for that are in the legacy API which also requires OAuth 1.0? Is this correct and will there be newer API’s that are not legacy to meet this need?

Hello, Lucid Developers Community! We're excited to announce several new APIs as part of the launch of our Enterprise Shield add-on, which brings an enhanced layer of fortified security and control to an account on Lucid’s already highly secure platform.Enterprise Shield introduces powerful APIs tailored to enhance security and compliance within your organization. Currently, Enterprise Shield offers:Document management API: Enables streamlined management of documents and folders within the Lucid ecosystem. Legal hold API: Empowers organizations to effectively manage and preserve documents during litigation. Audit logs API: Captures a diverse array of security and compliance events. To get started with Enterprise Shield APIs, check out our detailed guide in the Developer Documentation. For further

Hi everyone,Is there a way to get the list of all documents that are in my subscription (in my account) using the Rest Api ?Regards.

Within Lucid, there is the ability to highlight the entire document via Cntrl A, and then clicking Tidy up to clean up the arrows between boxes and give the diagram a neater and aesthetic view?My question is can and how can this feature be accessed through the Lucid API, as the diagrams I am creating via the API have issues with being visually appealing to view and comprehend? Thanks ! 

I am looking to get a list of licensed users. Looking at https://lucid.readme.io/reference/getallusers, you would thinking filtering on “urn:ietf:params:scim:schemas:extension:lucid:1.0:User.productLicenses” would get me that. Here’s an example of an unlicensed and licensed user. The one with True in the “canEdit” field is the licensed user. As you can see the field “urn:ietf:params:scim:schemas:extension:lucid:1.0:User.productLicenses” is empty for both unlicensed and licensed users.Filtering on “canEdit” gets me what I want but this is a non-optimized attribute. Am I supposed to get a list of licensed users by filtering on “urn:ietf:params:scim:schemas:extension:lucid:1.0:User.productLicenses”?

When Getting Json Content on big files using “https://api.lucid.co/documents/{id}/contents” end point.I am faced with an internal 500 error when using this endpoint for very big files.I also tried using an extension using  for (const [pageId, page] of document.pages) { const items = page.allItems;Lucid is crashing also.When using an extension I was able do make it running using several calls with grouping pages as we can iterate through pages in extension.It could be interesting to have a {pageId} feature in the Json Header for getting the content of a page using the “https://api.lucid.co/documents/{id}/contents” end point as we can when exporting.It could then be a turn arou

Hi Lucid team,We're building a LucidChart extension with a data connector that currently runs on Azure Functions (Node.js/TypeScript). We're in the process of migrating our backend to Python (FastAPI) and have successfully moved most of our data connector actions — the HTTP contract (POST with action data + OAuth token) works great from any language.However, we have one action that we can't migrate: it uses DataConnectorAsynchronousAction.client.update() method to write data into Lucid document Collections. This might only be available through the TypeScript lucid-extension-sdk, and we haven't found a Python equivalent.Specifically, our action reads simulation result CSV files from Azure Blob Storage, transforms them, and pushes them into Lucid Collections so they can be visualized within the document. The client.update() call with collection schemas and serialized fields is the only way we've found to do this.Questions:  1. Is there a Python SDK (o

Here is how I am embedding the document:Use of the document picker to obtain the document and the document ID POST request to /documents/${documentId}/embeds to obtain embed id POST request to /embeds/token with the embedId and origin in the bodyI then use the token returned in the iframe: https://lucid.app/embeds?token=:tokenI have been able to confirm that the origin we are passing is formatted like “sub-domain.domain.com”, which matches the site I am testing on. The document will “flash” for a moment, before the render goes full black as seen in the screenshot below.