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Is there any way to generate a shareable link to a file? In the class I am teaching I have a school-sponsored web service (Blackboard) for grading that requires something to be turned in. Downloading the file from pythonanywhere and uploading to Blackboard seems like high overhead. Pasting a secure link to a file in Blackboard which jumps me over to pythonanywhere for execution and commenting seems like comparative bliss. Suggestions?

If your students have nominated you as their teacher, then they can just give you the link to the file. No-one will be able to use it except them and you because it requires that you be logged in to PythonAnywhere to use it. However, the issue with shared links, in general, will be that the student can change the file after the marking, so the audit trail isn't very good.