How do I tell postman to reset a list of course IDs in a CSV file?

[james_umphres1]

Hi all,

I've got what I hope is a very simple task that I'm someone can set me toward the right direction. I have a list of 2K courses, I have a csv with their canvas course ids, and I'd like make Postman reset the content of each course.

Here's what I have in postman (it's in beta):

Here is my csv file, trying just a few at first:

Finally, here is what I have in the runner with my csv selected:

I'm not sure what the missing piece. I've double-checked my bearer authorization and I know that's accurate. I don't think I'm giving postman enough information to parse the csv file. I defined the course_id as a variable... maybe I need to add something under parameters?

Any help is greatly, greatly appreciated, as I could use that information to apply to other API calls.

Thanks!

[JamesSekcienski · Accepted solution]

Have you tried removing the colon from in front of course_id in the request URL?  Instead of {{:course_id}}, it should be {{course_id}}

[james_umphres1]

That got her workin', thank you

[JamesSekcienski]

You're welcome 😀

[kyle_cole]

Pretty sure @JamesSekcienski is correct. I looked at the variable documentation in Postman and they do not have a semi-colon. https://learning.postman.com/docs/sending-requests/variables/

[xcotto1]

Hi James,

you should remove the curly brackets and leave it as /:course_id/reset_content. Then add the curly brackets  in the Path variable {{course_id}}.

Here is a screenshot on my end. This should work without issue. Also, make sure to add Test scripts to validate your API response.

Let me know if it worked

-Xavier 👾

[james_umphres1]

Thanks! What ended up working was putting {{course_id}} in the request url. It's so finicky and esoteric sometimes. I will check out these scripts.