Get user profile - userName/Password

[mark_liedtke]

Hi,

I'm working on an app that will allow the user to import their Canvas calendar into the apps calendar.  I want to allow the user to provide the user to provide to provide the institution, userName & password, then we'll call this API (https://<institution>.instructure.com/api/v1/users/self/profile) to retrieve their profile and get theri iCal url.  I can make my calls work when I manually generate a bearer token from user's Account/Settings page in canvas, but I'm not sure how the OAuth2 path works.  A couple questions this leads me to.

Is there an authentication path that accepts the user's username & password?  If so, how?  If not, how do I validate the user's credentials?

How would I make this work with multiple institutions?  Will we need a developer key for each institution, or is there another way?

Thanks,

Mark 

[nr2522 · Accepted solution]

Hi,  @mark_liedtke ‌.

No properly secured application will ever give you a user's password.

I believe that the best guide for what you are trying to do in Canvas is the Canvas LMS REST API Documentation. Note especially the info. under OAuth2 on the left-side menu.

[mark_liedtke]

Thanks for your reply Nelson.  Once I got a developer key, and got my redirect URL's set up properly, I quickly figured out the proper way to do this with OAuth2.  After writing this post I quickly figured out my lack of understanding.

[dhineshmca_11]

Question : I want to allow the user to provide the user to provide to provide the institution, userName & password, then we'll call this API (https://<institution>.instructure.com/api/v1/users/self/profile) to retrieve their profile and get their user informations.

You have answer that we cannot retreive the password but please let me know if we can retrive the username atleast?