Easiest way to get all courses

[MarkusvonStaden]

Hi,
Is it possible to loop over all the courses without being enrolled in them (as an admin user of corse)?

[bennettscience]

Are you looking for all the courses in an account? If you have admin access, you can do canvas.get_courses() (ref). That calls the top-level course endpoint for your Canvas instance. I would recommend using some kwarg filters to limit the number of courses you actually get back.

[MarkusvonStaden]

No, I need to get all courses available on canvas. As a workaround I generated a csv file from the admin settings and used that to get all course ids and loop over that csv file. Not ideal though, since i need to do something and cannot automate the entire task. But I couldn't find a way directly with their api either.

[bennettscience]

Oops, sorry - that's my fault. I gave the wrong answer. You need to use account.get_courses() to get everything. Most Canvas instances have a root account with the id 1. You can do:

# Imports, etc
canvas = Canvas(URL, KEY)
account = canvas.get_account(1)

all_courses = account.get_courses()

You can also get all of the available account IDs with canvas.get_accounts() and then target specific subaccounts. Sorry about that.

[MarkusvonStaden]

That works, thanks a lot!