# EPFL SAML Identity Federation Entities

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/epfl/identity-federation/  
**Provider:** EPFL — https://apis.io/providers/epfl/  
**Documentation:** https://companion.epfl.ch/

EPFL SAML Identity Federation Entities is one of 9 APIs that [EPFL](https://apis.io/providers/epfl/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, and eduGAIN.

EPFL is a registered member of SWITCHaai, the Swiss academic identity federation, which is exported to eduGAIN. Seventeen entityIDs containing "epfl" appear in the federation aggregate. EPFL's identity provider entity, https://idp.epfl.ch/idp/shibboleth, carries the REFEDS Research & Scholarship entity category and REFEDS Sirtfi. EPFL-operated Shibboleth service providers are registered at https://companion.epfl.ch/shibboleth (9 requested attributes; host resolves and returns 200) and https://tequila.epfl.ch/shibboleth (16 requested attributes, including swissEduPersonMatriculationNumber and swissEduPersonStudyLevel) — but note that tequila.epfl.ch NO LONGER RESOLVES in public DNS as of 2026-08-19, so that registration is stale metadata rather than a reachable service. This is machine-readable institutional infrastructure that is almost never catalogued, and the entities are genuinely EPFL's.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **IdentityFederation** — https://metadata.aai.switch.ch/metadata.switchaai.xml
- **Scopes** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/epfl/refs/heads/main/scopes/epfl-scopes.yml

## Other EPFL APIs (8)

- [EPFL Actu News API](https://apis.io/apis/epfl/actu-news-api/)
- [EPFL Memento Events API](https://apis.io/apis/epfl/memento-events-api/)
- [EPFL Infoscience Institutional Repository](https://apis.io/apis/epfl/infoscience/)
- [EPFL GETprime qPCR Primer API](https://apis.io/apis/epfl/getprime/)
- [EPFL Graph Search](https://apis.io/apis/epfl/graphsearch/)
- [EPFL go.epfl.ch URL Shortener API](https://apis.io/apis/epfl/go-url-shortener/)
- [EPFL Identity Provider (SWITCH edu-ID, tenant)](https://apis.io/apis/epfl/eduid-idp/)
- [EPFL Library Discovery on swisscovery (Ex Libris, tenant)](https://apis.io/apis/epfl/swisscovery-library/)

## Tags

Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, eduGAIN

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