Harvard University

Harvard API Portal (HUIT)

Harvard University Information Technology's central catalog of administrative APIs - Courses, Person Data Service, Library Catalog, Dining, HR Departments, Zoom, Emailer and Generative AI. The portal software is a Google Apigee developer portal, but the APIs it fronts are Harvard-built and run on Harvard's gateway, so the surface is institution, not tenant. It is however completely closed to an outside developer: the catalog itself, every base URL and every credential require HarvardKey login, application registration and a per-API access grant. Anonymous requests to the portal and to every catalog data path return a 2KB Angular shell, so not one administrative API contract could be read.

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Documentation

https://portal.apis.huit.harvard.edu/apis

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https://portal.apis.huit.harvard.edu/

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https://github.com/huit

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API entry from apis.yml

aid: harvard:api-portal
name: Harvard API Portal (HUIT)
x-operator: institution
description: 'Harvard University Information Technology''s central catalog of administrative APIs - Courses,
  Person Data Service, Library Catalog, Dining, HR Departments, Zoom, Emailer and Generative AI. The portal
  software is a Google Apigee developer portal, but the APIs it fronts are Harvard-built and run on Harvard''s
  gateway, so the surface is institution, not tenant. It is however completely closed to an outside developer:
  the catalog itself, every base URL and every credential require HarvardKey login, application registration
  and a per-API access grant. Anonymous requests to the portal and to every catalog data path return a
  2KB Angular shell, so not one administrative API contract could be read.'
humanURL: https://portal.apis.huit.harvard.edu/apis
tags:
- Courses
- Identity
- Administrative
- Apigee
- Gated
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://portal.apis.huit.harvard.edu/apis
- type: Signup
  url: https://portal.apis.huit.harvard.edu/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/huit