Canvas api

Canvas LMS API

See also canvas-development, canvas-api-dev

Canvas API wrappers

Python

• Canvasapi 2.20 - UC Florida Open
  • Used in over 100+ repos
  • file class
  • Uploader class

Javascript

• neurotech/canvas-api
  • For npjs - could be example of good way to do this.
    • unpkg and git
  • no files
• harvard-edtech/caccl - more a app generator for Canvas JS apps

Resources

• Canvas LMS API documentation
• Python wrappers
  • UCFOpen Canvas API and pip install/docs - Python API wrapper, used in other projectss e.g. Canvas Grab - grab all files on Canvas LMS to local directory
  • canvas-lms-api - on github enterprise
• Tutorials
  • Simple Python get script - basic tutorial - fairly limited
  • Get started with the Canvas API - from UBC - much better
    • the initial api URL used in this doesn't appear to work
  • Canvas APIs: Getting started - better intro, quite detailed

Details

Anyone, including students can use the API. But only as permitted via the Web interface.

Process

1. Get access token.
2. Identify the URL/API to be called
3. Make the call
4. Handle requests