wikipage manipulation using API

[dbalbieran]

Hi,

A lot of what we do is import contents from previously offered courses. As you know what this does to wikipages

is that it keeps the existing ones (from the shell) and copied over the ones from the source course and renames

them with a -2 ( and son on).

Could you point me to the correct API to use if I want to:

1. Delete the existing wikipage eg. "About this course"

2. Rename the newly copied "About this course-2" to "About this course"

3. Recurse for all pages with duplicates

Any leads or template will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

#wikipage

pklove‌, have you done anything like this before?  Thanks!

I have Thonny and Powershell.

[pklove · Accepted solution]

I think the Page endpoints  (Pages - Canvas LMS REST API Documentation) are what you need to use.  They will let you list the pages, update and delete them.

[dbalbieran]

thanks

[maguire]

Seconding what @pklove has said, I was inspired to write a program to walk all of the pages of a module (or all of the pages in a course) and make some systematic changes to the pages I wrote a simple program: edit_modules_items_in_a_module_in_a_course.py in can be found at https://github.com/gqmaguirejr/Canvas-tools 

As I had nearly 800 wikipages that needed to be processed for a course, this was a great time saver.

There is also a program that can delete wikipages:

    cdel.py canvas_course_page_url

[maguire]

I made a program so that you can delete a module and then import a new version of it. As a side effect, it deletes the wikipages - unless they are used by another module. You can find the program  delete_a_module_and_its_items.py at https://github.com/gqmaguirejr/Canvas-tools 

I've only tested it with Pages and Text headers, but it should work for other kinds of module items 🙂