Help Getting Syllabus Through API

[dwillmore]

I am trying to pull a course syllabus through API and am failing.   Here is my call.  Did I format it improperly?

https://xxxx.instructure.com:443/api/v1/courses/23893?syllabus_body

Thanks for your help.

[dgrobani · Accepted solution]

Try this: https://xxx.instructure.com/api/v1/courses/23893?include[]=syllabus_body.

As explained in Get a single course.

[dwillmore]

Thanks

[clarkld]

Is there a way to do this with all courses in a specific term? For instance, I'm trying to see how to pull the syllabus for all courses in the Fall 2022 term. I'm really new to API calls, and I'm not sure if I need a certain program to do this in or if this action can be done in the address bar like with a single course.

[JamesSekcienski]

@clarkld 

To get the syllabus for all courses, it would probably be best to use the List active courses in an account API call.  This will allow you to get multiple courses at once and there is a request parameter for "include[]=syllabus_body" and "enrollment_term_id=<PUT TERM ID HERE>".

The main difference with this is that you will need to worry about handling pagination since all results won't be able to show on a single page.  Personally, for something like this, I would likely use Python and have it export to a CSV file.