canvas-files-downloader

Downloads your Canvas course files, group submissions, and user submissions

Usage

• Requires Python 3
• Create .env

  • Generate an access token for testing

    • https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.oauth.html#manual-token-generation

    • ACCESS_TOKEN=
      

    • Put your access token after the equals sign

  • Setup canvas installation url:

      CANVAS_URL=your canvas url (eg. canvas.vu.nl)
  

  • (optional) targer folder (./files by default):

      FOLDER=~/canvas_files
  

• Create a virtual environment and activate it
  • python3 -m venv venv
  • source venv/bin/activate
• Install dependencies
  • pip install -r requirements.txt
• Run the script
  • python canvas-files-downloader.py
• Files will be downloaded to files/ or the folder specified in the configuration
• Usage with multiple canvas accounts/installations: simply call the script for each installation url and/or authentication token from a script:

ACCESS_TOKEN=... CANVAS_URL=first_url python canvas-files-download.py
ACCESS_TOKEN=... CANVAS_URL=second_url python canvas-files-download.py