REST api with edX (fetch data)

[Dimitris Gerolimatos]

Hi, 

We would like from our company to get the list of edX courses and their details in order to use them in our internal learning portal for our employees. 

is there any way that we can do this with REST requests for example, without having an edX platform instance?

from what I understand, if I send a GET request to the url: 

https://courses.edx.org/api/course_structure/v0/courses/

I see that I need to be authenticated (using Oauth??) first in order to get the reply in ,for example, JSON format. 

thanks for support 

br,

Dimitris

[David Baumgold]

Dimitris, are you talking about the list of courses running on edx.org? For that, you would need an OAuth key to access that API endpoint, and I don't believe that edx.org currently gives out OAuth keys. That API endpoint is currently intended for internal use only, although hopefully that will change over time as edX continues to develop these APIs.

If you want to run your own Open edX installation, then you'll be able to access this API endpoint from your own instance, and it will return information about the courses you have running on your own installation. But since you specifically say that you don't want to have an edX platform instance, it sounds like that's not what you're looking for.

David Baumgold

[Peter Pinch]

Perhaps the RSS feed from www.edx.org is sufficient? 

https://www.edx.org/api/v2/report/course-feed/rss

That's what we use to scrape course listings for MIT. 

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[Andy Armstrong]

I ran into the same issue last week at the edX hackathon, so I've made a JIRA ticket suggesting that we allow anonymous access to the course-level APIs:

https://openedx.atlassian.net/browse/ECOM-1965

Thanks,

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[Sarina Canelake]

Andy - ECOM tickets aren't publicly visible, FYI. Using a public project when possible is best; if that's not possible, please follow up on this email thread when the ticket is updated.

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[Dimitris Gerolimatos]

Hi Peter, 

many thanks for the tip. 

However, this rss feed provides a short list of the courses from edX. 

I mean, maybe the link includes only updates on courses, newly published perhaps. 

I'm afraid that parsing the link's data will not give us the whole course list