Does anyone have a sample Python script that creates a conversation?

Question

Working on a way to create password expiration notifications from a csv file. Would be grateful for a starting point:)

jsavage2 · Answer

Hi Jessica,

I was wrestling with this recently, too. Here's my simplest case:

import requests

API_URL = "https:///api/v1"
API_KEY = ""

headers = {'Authorization' : "Bearer " + API_KEY }

title = 'README'
message = 'yadda yadda yadda'
payload = { 
           'recipients[]' : 1234, # canvas user_id
           'subject' : title,
           'body' : message,
           'force_new' : 'true',
           'context_code' : 'course_5678' # if it's associated with a course
          }

convo = requests.post(API_URL + "/conversations", headers = headers, data = payload)
convo.raise_for_status()

Hope this helps.

michael-espey · Answer

This https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-15537-conversations-api-able-to-create-messages-with-a-new-subject may help quite a bit. I can try to put something together in Python as an example but it probably won't be until later this week, but it isn't going to be of much use at scale. I don't have anything running currently that uses these endpoints. Where are you getting the CSV from? Will it include Canvas User IDs?

Are you intending on using a generic API user hard coded in or using AUTH for each user making calls? What language are you planning on doing this in?

Happy to help where I can, but let me know if you have any specific questions. I will hop back on here as I have time.

-Michael