Canvas API only returns courses that I created, How can I return all courses on the instance ?

[DavidGeismar2]

I am using the canvas api to retrieve all courses from my canvas instance.
In order to do this I :

- create a new access token in /profile/settings

- Then use this access token to perform an API call to list all courses with https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/courses.html#method.courses.index

This works well. However the API only returns the courses that I have specifically created. I need to return all the courses from the canvas instance.

Am I missing something ? What should I do to be able to access all courses ?

[melodyc_lam]

@DavidGeismar2 Welcome, and welcome to using the API!

You'll want to use the following API endpoint to GET the courses from a specific account/subaccount:

<your canvas URL>/api/v1/accounts/<account ID>/courses

Your root account ID I believe is 1 (one) but as a pro-tip if you ever need to get a subset of courses that live in a specific subaccount, you can use the subaccount ID to access a list of just those courses. This helps in larger Canvas instances.

Hope this helps!

Edit: Found the name of the call you're making (I've been using the API for so long that I don't really look at the docs anymore) -- it's called List active courses in an account