Developer Key Course Edit/Course Delete

[tmda...@gmail.com]

Hey All,

Curious about this phenomena that I'm observing:  I have a developer key and I can create courses via the API.  When I try to edit or delete the courses via the API I get the same response: "user not authorized to perform that action."

Also, when I log into Canvas, I can't see the courses that I have created. 

Any insights?

Best,
TMD

[tmda...@gmail.com]

Example:

curl https://canvas.instructure.com/api/v1/courses/860554 \
  -X PUT \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer <somethingawesome>' \
  -d 'course[name]=blarg'
 
{"status":"unauthorized","errors":[{"message":"user not authorized to perform that action"}]}

[Chris Herdt]

You need to include your token as a header in the request. See https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.oauth.html

(Maybe you are including it but you redacted it from your message?)

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[Timothy Dalbey]

Yea - the header has the token in it as per the example.

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[Chris Herdt]

Sorry, I totally overlooked the token in your example! Don't know how I missed it.

Are you using the address of your Canvas install (not canvas.instructure.com)?

I was able to submit a similar request on my instance and it was successful (a course object was returned with the update applied):

curl -H 'Authorization: Bearer <REDACTED>'\
 https://myinstance.instructure.com/api/v1/courses/123456\
 -X PUT\
 -d 'course[name]=Foo'

[tmda...@gmail.com]

I am indeed using hosted Canvas (aka canvas.instructure.com).  Otherwise, my request looks identical with exception to the the ordering of the arguments.