This repo hosts a simple python script to download all available files in all courses on your Canvas page.
- Python 3.6+
- requests
- markdownify
- bs4
If you use pipenv you can just run pipenv install to setup the environment.
python canvas-scraper.py <CANVAS_API_KEY> -u <yourschool.instructure.com> -m
canvas_url should be specified like: asdf.instructure.com
For info on how to get an API key please refer to the Canvas Dev course
To get courses from past terms, save the html file of the course list page from your browser to course_list.html in this folder and then run:
cat course_list.html | grep -oE '/courses/[0-9]+' | grep -oE '[0-9]+' | sort -u > course_list.txt
and then run the script
- Add async option
- Add support for more item types
- Store returned json data from Canvas API