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[lishaduck]

I happened to see this, @ParkerH27, and realized I wasn't sure about the legality of accessing the REST API: Instructure Acceptable Use Policy

[lishaduck]

I did some looking at the Canvas API docs, @ParkerH27, and here are my notes:

• Canvas is migrating from REST to GraphQL
• Canvas uses Apollo to maintain federated GraphQL supergraphs.
• Dart has an Apollo-based client package.
• Canvas has GraphiQL embedded, which is a tool somewhat like Postman and is located at https://pattonville.instructure.com/graphiql.
• Canvas recommends using Relay, but it's for React only, so we can just stick with the Flutter package.
• PayPal, GitHub, and Google still prefer REST, though PayPal and GitHub offer GraphQL APIs.
• PowerSchool has a REST API, and supposedly a GraphQL API. Information is hard to find.

[PetalCat]

I did notice that it was hard to find stuff about powerschool. I do initially think the only api we need to connect to is powerschool so we need to figure all that out.... This is where I think some of the swift code that you found might be useful.... I'm thinking about throwing it into chat gpt3 so I get an explanation of exactly what it is doing in plain English. I'm pretty sure it is integrated with powerschool.

[lishaduck]

https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/785215/pages/api-use-case-examples

[lishaduck]

Also, PowerSchool is closed-source, so getting the API documentation will probably be annoying.