Canvas LMS · OAuth Scopes

Canvas LMS OAuth Scopes

OAuth 2.0 derived

Canvas LMS publishes 3 OAuth 2.0 scopes via the authorizationCode flow. Scopes are the fine-grained permissions an application requests at authorization time to act against the Canvas LMS API on a user’s behalf.

Tokens are issued from https://canvas.instructure.com/login/oauth2/token.

This index is generated from the provider’s OpenAPI security definitions (and, where available, its documented scope reference) and refreshes on every APIs.io network build. Browse every provider’s scopes at scopes.apis.io.

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Scopes: 3 Flows: authorizationCode Method: derived

OAuth endpoints

Authorization URL
https://canvas.instructure.com/login/oauth2/auth

Token URL
https://canvas.instructure.com/login/oauth2/token

Flows
authorizationCode

Scopes (3)

Scope	Description	Flows
url:GET\|/api/v1/accounts	Read accounts	authorizationCode
url:GET\|/api/v1/courses	Read courses	authorizationCode
url:GET\|/api/v1/users/{user_id}	Read a user	authorizationCode

📄 Provider scope reference:

Source

OAuth Scopes

generated: '2026-07-11'
method: derived
source: openapi/canvas-lms-rest-api-openapi.yml
schemes:
- name: OAuth2
  source: openapi/canvas-lms-rest-api-openapi.yml
  flows:
  - flow: authorizationCode
    authorizationUrl: https://canvas.instructure.com/login/oauth2/auth
    tokenUrl: https://canvas.instructure.com/login/oauth2/token
  description: Canvas OAuth2 (RFC 6749) authorization code grant. Register a Developer Key in
    the target Canvas account to obtain a client_id and client_secret.
scopes:
- scope: url:GET|/api/v1/accounts
  description: Read accounts
  flows:
  - authorizationCode
  sources:
  - openapi/canvas-lms-rest-api-openapi.yml
- scope: url:GET|/api/v1/courses
  description: Read courses
  flows:
  - authorizationCode
  sources:
  - openapi/canvas-lms-rest-api-openapi.yml
- scope: url:GET|/api/v1/users/{user_id}
  description: Read a user
  flows:
  - authorizationCode
  sources:
  - openapi/canvas-lms-rest-api-openapi.yml