Canvas LMS API Media Objects

Question

Hi!

I am a student developer working on lecture transcript summary. I was wondering if there is way to access Media Track objects to access Media Object captions?

Currently getting an empty response '[ ]' for '/api/v1/media_objects'.

Any advice/insight on the API would be much appreciated!

DzhangirBayanda · Answer

Thank you so much! I was able to hit the end point, but keep getting a 403 status code, 'user not allowed to perform that action'.

I am using my school's account with and API token that I created. I am assuming it returns 403 because user accounts don't have permission to access course media objects 😞

Thank you again!

melodyc_lam · Answer

@DzhangirBayanda --

Hey! You're getting an empty response because that endpoint pulls Media Objects you've created, and based on the response, it looks like you haven't created any.

You'll want to pull from the '/api/v1/courses/' endpoint for the courses that have Media Objects.

API Reference for Media Objects.