Easy Way to Generate Open edX Certificate

I wrote simple script to generate Open edX certificate based on our input. Basically if you want to generate certificate in Open edX you need to go to /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform then run this command

sudo -u www-data /edx/bin/python.edxapp ./manage.py lms --settings aws ungenerated_certs -c course_id --insecure

To make it easy we can use bash shell scripting, here’s the code:

#!/bin/bash
# change directory to edx-platform
cd /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform

# prompt user, and read command line argument
read -p 'Enter course ID: ' idcourse
read -p "edXius, Are you sure you want to generate the certificate (Y/N)? " answer

# handle the command line argument we were given
while true
do
    case $answer in
    [yY]* ) echo "Okay Darth edXius, Start generating $idcourse "
        sudo -u www-data /edx/bin/python.edxapp ./manage.py lms --settings aws ungenerated_certs -c $idcourse --insecure
               break;;


    [nN]* ) exit;;

    * )     echo "edXius, just enter Y or N, please."; break ;;
  esac
done

Save this code to cert.sh and run using bash cert.sh command.

This code will ask you which course ID to generate and asking if you are agree to generate the certificate or not.

Done.

Rizky A.