Configure Canto upload settings and understand its folder/album structure before building an automated ingestion pipeline
domain: canto.com · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
In Canto's dashboard under User Menu > Settings > Configuration Options > Upload Settings, review the Excluded File Types list to know which file types will be silently rejected on upload
Configure the Read Metadata section to control which embedded metadata (e.g. IPTC fields) Canto extracts and applies to assets automatically on ingestion
Understand that Canto organizes content into folders and albums, and retrieve the existing folder/album structure via the API before deciding where automated uploads should land
Use the API's upload endpoints to push new assets into a specific folder or album, and check upload status since processing (thumbnailing, metadata extraction) happens asynchronously after the initial upload call returns
Optionally register a webhook for upload-related events so downstream systems are notified when an asset finishes processing rather than needing to poll
Known gotchas
Excluded file types are configured account-wide in Upload Settings — an automated pipeline uploading an excluded type will fail silently from the API caller's perspective unless it explicitly checks the account's exclusion list first
Canto explicitly does not provide bespoke developer support for building custom integrations beyond advising on their own API — third-party system-specific logic is the integrating team's responsibility
Webhooks are fire-and-forget and not persisted by Canto, so a missed delivery (e.g. receiving endpoint downtime) is not retried; production integrations should pair webhooks with periodic reconciliation polling
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