How can I get a list of every file used in my course?

[stephanie_pope]

How can I get a list/report of every file used in my course?

Besides highlights all of the files in every folder to copy/paste....anyone know of a way to pull a report or get a list of every file in a course?

Thanks!

Stephanie

[brueckert]

Hi  @stephanie_pope 

I'm not sure how much programming background you have, but this can be done using the Files API. Here's a link to the documentation:

Files - Canvas LMS REST API Documentation

You would want the following:

GET /api/v1/courses/:course_id/files

It would return a paginated list of the files (with their properties) in JSON format, which could be printed or written to a spreadsheet.

[brueckert · Accepted solution]

Hey Stephanie,

I attached a Python script that worked pretty well. It just prints the file names to the console, nothing fancy; so not that great if you needed a spreadsheet. You'll need to edit it to include your token, the ID of the target course, as well as your institutional Canvas domain before it will run. Also, you'll need Python 3.x installed with the Requests library. Let me know if you give it a whirl!

[stephanie_pope]

Hey Brian,

This is SUPER helpful for a project I'm doing. We are trying to clean up our files and this list would make it easy to identify all the files used in a course as people click through every page of a course. We are a curriculum department of 2 with little programming experience so this may sound extremely manual and time consuming- but it's all we got.

Again, thanks so much!