Canvas Submissions API: 401 Unauthorized

[ross-h-miller]

I have a service account that is an account admin that I make a number of other API calls with, but when I try to call Submissions - submissions for students  endpoint I get a 401 status code back. Any ideas why I might be getting this error? I can get submissions via other endpoints like the assignments and other submission endpoints. 

GET v1/courses/13/students/submissions

[stuart_ryan]

Hi  @ross-h-miller ,

That is an odd one, are you using the standard account admin role (and not a custom one?).

I would also ask, have you tried this out in the Canvas Live API, as that might help to reveal any issues (see https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-14390-canvas-apis-getting-started-the-practical-ins-and-out... ) there are links to it in that document.

If none of those work, can you please let us know the language you are using and a full code example for us to have a look at?

Many thanks,

Stuart

[pklove · Accepted solution]

Probably nothing odd or language realted, you can see the issue in your browser.

Have you specified any student_ids[]:

  "List of student ids to return submissions for. If this argument is omitted, return submissions for the calling user."

There is a special value "all".

So I'm guessing you want:

   /api/v1/courses/239/students/submissions?student_ids[]=all