Canvas Course Publishing Script

# Canvas Course Publishing Script, written by Luke Levesque - Liberty University*/
# Written for use with python 2.7 and 'requests' package - http://docs.python-requests.org/en/ */

import requests
import time

token = "YOUR TOKEN GOES HERE"

account_id = 'ACCOUNT NUMBER YOUR COURSES RESIDE IN'

url = 'URL OF YOUR CANVAS INSTANCE'

s = raw_input("Please enter the Course IDs to publish, separated by commas: ")

courseid = map(int, s.split(','))

totalcount = 0

def checkurl(url): # Send a request to Canvas to check the course state
    t = requests.get(url, headers = {'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + '%s' % token})
    urlresponse = t.json()
    print "| " + str(urlresponse[u'message']) + " |"

for id in courseid: # Loop through the course IDs and send a request to publish each
    payload = {'course_ids[]': id, 'event': 'offer' }
    r = requests.put(url + '/api/v1/accounts/'97825/courses', params=payload, headers = {'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + '%s' % token})
    data = r.json()
    print data[u'url']
    time.sleep(2)
    checkurl(data[u'url'])
    totalcount += 1
    print str(totalcount) + " of " + str(len(courseid)) + " published."
    time.sleep(1)