API Login with email/password

Hi,

I'm developing an external application that I would like to integrate with Canvas API. I have a login form, where I want users to log in via their email and password (The same credentials they use for logging into Canvas). I looked at the API and the OAuth endpoints but couldn't find how to log in with email/password. Can someone please help me out with that?

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matthew_buckett

As far as I'm aware there's no way to get users to enter their Canvas username/password and have you pass these credentials to Canvas to authenticate them. Having users enter their credentials to 3rd party applications is no a good security practice and so this is why Canvas supports OAuth. This allows you to request a token on behalf of the user and then use that token to perform API requests. This token is independent of the credentials and if the user decides they can then revoke the token and your application no longer has access to their account. There's more details about Canvas and OAuth here: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.oauth.html

If you just want to use Canvas to allow the user to login and not make any API requests against Canvas on their behalf then you should use OAuth with a scope of scope=/auth/userinfo

If you are happy not having a normal login page but want users to access your application after first logging in to Canvas then you could look at using LTI to solve this: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.tools_intro.html

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