Can I get a report of all links in the text of Course content e.g. pages

[LEASUSAN]

Hi!

We're moving to Simple Syllabus as our ONLY syllabus option for Fall 2025. If a student clicks a link to the Canvas syllabus, they will be redirected to the course homepage. This redirect makes sense to us, and we're fine with it, BUT we are wondering if we can run some kind of report that lists EVERY URL in the content of courses.

I'm thinking - ok, the link checker can tell what a link is and basically compiles a list, so does the capability exist to do that at a meta level for an entire term?

Considerations and Stuff We Tried:

- we've been testing both custom CSS and JavaScript to remove "Syllabus" from the left navigation

- we used canvas search with various keywords that should result in a link of links with /syllabus but it did not work, and we got a ton of content that just had the word syllabus in it and ignored our search tweaks. I'm a librarian 🤓, I'm super good at search, and we had a lot of hope that would work.

Workarounds are great, and I'm going to ask other questions about Simple Syllabus over in another post, so you can find me there! but for THIS question - we are looking specifically for a way to see all the URLs in a term and then if we can get it as a csv or excel file we can do a text search that is more reliable than Canvas search.

Thanks!

-Lea

KEYWORDS: URLs, URL, Reports, Links, Link, Link Checker, Simple Syllabus, Syllabus, Admin

[Gabriel33]

There was a similar question a few months ago:  Re: Listing of All Course Hyperlinks - Instructure Community - 638407. Not much of a solution except perhaps using the API to go over each item in the course. 

[dbrace]

Hi @LEASUSAN,

Have you had any luck?

I do not have experience with Simple Syllabus but:

1. this sounds like something that Simple Syllabus might be able to help with because of how many institutions are using it with Canvas
2. I came across a "Support" link on the bottom of the Simple Syllabus website (https://simplehighered.com) that points to https://ruv4ttrx.paperform.co

-Doug

[LEASUSAN]

Simple Syllabus has *fantastic* customer service, but this is outside of their scope. Thanks!