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view_page.py
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view_page.py
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import sys
import argparse
from api import get_course, split_url
def parse_args(args):
# help text and argument parser
# solution based on https://stackoverflow.com/a/24181138/462692
desc = '\n'.join(["Shows the html content of an existing page on canvas.",
"An optional argument -c/--config_file can be used with the path to the config file. "
"Otherwise the default config file '~/.config/canvasapi.conf' will be used.\n"
])
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=desc)
required_named = parser.add_argument_group('required named arguments')
required_named.add_argument("-u", "--url", help="The full url of the page for viewing", required = True)
parser.add_argument("-cf", "--config_file", help="Path to config file", default = '~/.config/canvasapi.conf')
args = parser.parse_args(args)
return args
def main(args):
args = parse_args(args)
# extract course information from url and get course
API_URL, course_id, page_name = split_url(args.url, expected = 'page')
course = get_course(API_URL, course_id, args.config_file)
# get the course page
try:
page_to_view = course.get_page(page_name)
except:
sys.exit("Error: could not find page '%s' on Canvas for viewing.\nFull url: %s" % (page_name, args.url))
# print the page
print(page_to_view.body)
if __name__ == "__main__":
main(sys.argv[1:])