How to programatically restrict blueprint items?

[bro16111]

I have about a hundred blueprint courses where I want to restrict specific items in the course. There is this API call to set restrictions on a blueprint course object. However I can't find the content_id for the item I want to restrict. There is a Show module item call which in theory returns a ModuleItem with its content_id. However when I use the Show module item call (with include[]=content_details) it only return information such as the following.

{
"id": 5616,
"title": "My Title",
"position": 2,
"indent": 1,
"type": "Page",
"module_id": 1524,
"html_url": "https://example.instructure.com/courses/154/modules/items/5616",
"page_url": "my-title",
"url": "https:/example.instructure.com/api/v1/courses/154/pages/my-title",
"published": false

"content_details": {
"locked_for_user": false
}
}

I have been able to manually go to the course and inspect the element I want to restrict and grab that content_id and the call works, but that defeats the whole purpose.  Am I missing something or is there something wrong with the API?

[bro16111 · Accepted solution]

I was able to figure out how to do it. The items I was trying to restrict were pages, but per the documentation a ModuleItem only returns a content_id for the types 'File', 'Discussion', 'Assignment', 'Quiz', and 'ExternalTool'. So I had to use the pages api. The problem is, is that the Modules api return what the groups and subgroup are for each Module but the pages doesn't. So I had to request both. I got the modules and their subgroups and I got the pages. I then cross-listed the pages information with the modules information. In that way I was able to get the correct items I wanted to restrict.

[Boekenoogen]

It sounds like you might have done the impossible! Great job! Are you going to change or update the code that you have shared with the community so that other (like me) can use it?

Thanks