Python script to publish courses in an account

[mnahmias]

Here's a script I just wrote to publish all courses in a specific account. Hopefully someone will find this helpful.

import requests


def chunks(source_list, chunk_size):
    """
    Method to split up your list into chunks

    Yield successive chunk_size-sized chunks from list.

    Source: https://www.datacamp.com/community/tutorials/18-most-common-python-list-questions-learn-python#question11
    """

    for i in range(0, len(source_list), chunk_size):
        yield source_list[i:i + chunk_size]


def publish_account_courses(base_url, token, sub_account_id):
    account_courses_url = base_url + 'accounts/' + str(sub_account_id) + '/courses'
    header = {'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + token}

    all_course_ids = []

    # Get the first page of courses in the sub-account
    payload = {
        'per_page': 100  # Per page max value appears to be 100
    }
    response = requests.get(url=account_courses_url, headers=header, data=payload)
    courses = response.json()

    # Add the course IDs to the list
    for course in courses:
        all_course_ids.append(course['id'])

    # Get the remaining pages of courses, if any
    while 'next' in response.links:
        # No longer need to include params, the next link has them saved
        response = requests.get(url=response.links['next']['url'], headers=header)
        courses = response.json()

        # Add the course IDs to the list
        for course in courses:
            all_course_ids.append(course['id'])

    # We can only update 500 courses at a time. Need to split up list of course IDs if longer than that
    # This is a new list - will contain lists of course IDs no longer than 500 each
    course_id_lists = list(chunks(all_course_ids, 500))

    for course_list in course_id_lists:
        # Take the list of course IDs and pass them to the 'Update courses' endpoint
        payload = {
            'course_ids[]': course_list,
            'event': 'offer'  # Offer in the API is the same as Publish in the UI
        }
        response = requests.put(url=account_courses_url, headers=header, data=payload)
        response.raise_for_status()
        # I'm not bothering to check the progress of this operation since it's just changing the state


# Canvas environment info
BASE_URL = 'PUT URL HERE'
TOKEN = 'PUT TOKEN HERE'

publish_account_courses(base_url=BASE_URL, token=TOKEN, sub_account_id=8)‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

[dgrobani]

Thanks for sharing this--now I know about the course_ids[] parameter!