I spent a considerable amount of time trying to use an API that would enrol a user in a course. To start with I checked this link Enrollment API Enrollment Resource — Open edX Platform APIs 0.1 documentation and it seems it is possible to view list of courses only for the authenticated user but NOT…

thanks. Yes I have seent it also before but I’m not sure what exactly is API_KEY? Is it the private key? HTTP_X_EDX_API_KEY: PUT_YOUR_API_KEY_HERE

EDX_API_KEY can a be string key should be something like a pass phrase. Check what you have set in settings of your LMS or set it if not set. Then send same value in HTTP-X-EDX-API-KEY header when calling API.

thanks a lot but I’m still struggling… this is what I did: [image] and this [image] but it still says { “detail”: “Authentication credentials were not provided.” } I tried also with curl but same… any idea? what am I doing wrongly?

finally I found…posting here the way I managed to make it work… curl https://example.com/api/enrollment/v1/enrollment?user=USERNAME -H “X-EDX-API-KEY: key_goes here”

However, when I do the same with API bulk_enroll this does not work anymore curl -d “ auto_enroll=true&email_students=true&action=enroll&courses=course-v1:xxxx&identifiers=example@gmail.com ” -X POST https://example.com/api/bulk_enroll/v1/bulk_enroll -H “X-EDX-API-KEY: cxxxx” I get {“detail”:“Authen…

I have finally figured out what the problem was… it is related to bitnami edx configuration of apache 2 - by adding this WSGIPassAuthorization On to the end of the httpd.conf, it solved the issue of authorization…

API: enrol user in a course

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Zia_Fazal (Zia Fazal) July 19, 2022, 9:39am 2

Hi @mslyon

This thread might help you in resolving authentication issue.

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API: enrol user in a course

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