canvas-files-downloader

Downloads your Canvas course files, group submissions, and user submissions

Usage

• Requires Python 3
• Create .env
  • Generate an access token for testing
    • https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.oauth.html#manual-token-generation

  • ACCESS_TOKEN=
    

    • Put your access token after the equals sign
• Create a virtual environment and activate it
  • python3 -m venv venv
  • source venv/bin/activate
• Install dependencies
  • pip install -r requirements.txt
• Run the script
  • python canvas-files-downloader.py
• Files will be downloaded to files/