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Canvas Content Shares API

The Content Shares API from Canvas — 6 operation(s) for content shares.

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Canvas Content Shares API is one of 145 APIs that Canvas publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Content Shares. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, authentication docs, a GitHub repository, an API reference, and rate-limit docs.

This API exposes 8 operations across 6 paths, and defines 1 schema. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version v1.

Requests are made against 2 base URLs: https://canvas.instructure.com/api, https://{canvas_host}/api.

8 operations 6 paths 1 schemas 1 DELETE4 GET2 POST1 PUT

Metadata

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Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
v1
Base URL
https://canvas.instructure.com/api/v1
Authentication
HTTP Bearer, OAuth 2.0
Contact
Instructure Canvas
License
AGPL-3.0
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 2

Canvas Content Shares API declares 2 security schemes for authenticating requests. It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (bearerAuth). It supports OAuth 2.0 (oauth2) using the authorizationCode flow. By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • bearerAuth — Canvas OAuth2 access token sent as "Authorization: Bearer ". See https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.oauth.html
  • oauth2 — Canvas OAuth2. See https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.oauth.html and https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.oauthendpoints.html

Paths & Operations 8

Across 6 paths, the API surfaces 8 operations — 1 DELETE, 4 GET, 2 POST, 1 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Content Shares 8
POST
/v1/users/{user_id}/content_shares
Create a content share
create_content_share 1 param body → 200
GET
/v1/users/{user_id}/content_shares/sent
List content shares
list_content_shares_sent 1 param → 200
GET
/v1/users/{user_id}/content_shares/received
List content shares
list_content_shares_received 1 param → 200
GET
/v1/users/{user_id}/content_shares/unread_count
Get unread shares count
get_unread_shares_count 1 param → 200
GET
/v1/users/{user_id}/content_shares/{id}
Get content share
get_content_share 2 params → 200
DELETE
/v1/users/{user_id}/content_shares/{id}
Remove content share
remove_content_share 2 params → 200
PUT
/v1/users/{user_id}/content_shares/{id}
Update a content share
update_content_share 2 params body → 200
POST
/v1/users/{user_id}/content_shares/{id}/add_users
Add users to content share
add_users_to_content_share 2 params body → 200

Schemas 1

The contract defines 1 schema that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed is ContentShare (11 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

ContentShare
object
Content shared between users
11 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

canvas-content-shares-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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API Details
ID
canvas:canvas-content-shares-api
Base URL
https://canvas.instructure.com/api/v1
Docs
https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/
Provider
Canvas
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