Canvas Courses API
The Courses API from Canvas — 25 operation(s) for courses.
Canvas Courses API is one of 4 APIs that Canvas publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Courses. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification.
This API exposes 30 operations across 25 paths, and defines 5 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version v1.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://canvas.instructure.com/api/v1.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
Canvas Courses API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (JWT) (bearerAuth).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
bearerAuth— OAuth 2.0 access token. See https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.oauth.html.
Paths & Operations 30
Across 25 paths, the API surfaces 30 operations — 1 DELETE, 21 GET, 5 POST, 3 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Schemas 5
The contract defines 5 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Course (14 properties), User (7 properties), Progress (4 properties), CourseCreate (3 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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