Canvas Scraper is a Selenium-driven tool for students that will automatically go through each of the your courses and download all attached files.

Must have Python version 3 installed, and the correct version of chromedriver downloaded.

First, clone the repository.

git clone

Create a new venv to run the script in, and activate it.

python3 -m venv canvas-scraper
cd canvas-scraper
source bin/activate

Use the package manager pip to install dependencies.

pip install -r requirements.txt

Edit the file settings.conf to include your canvas login information, the path to chromedriver, as well as the desired output location for the course data.

login:
    username: eid1234
    passwd: pw123

save_location: /path/to/output/folder/

chromedriver_location: /path/to/chromedriver

Now you are ready to run the scraper.

python scraper.py

When the script is finished beginning the downloads, it will prompt you to wait until the downloads are finished to close out the script. Be patient.

You can now run the separate script rename_folders.py in order to automatically rename the downloaded zip files to accurately represent the course they contain the files for.

python rename-folders.py

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

MIT