University of Hong Kong

HKU ITS API Developer Portal and Gateway

HKU Information Technology Services runs an Azure API Management gateway at api.hku.hk and a developer portal at developer.hku.hk. Since 17 March 2026 the portal has issued subscription keys to students as well as staff for chat-completion, embedding and image-generation APIs across several hosted models. The gateway is live and answers in the APIM error envelope ({"statusCode":404,"message":"Resource not found"}), but every portal route — /apis, /docs/services — redirects to /signin, so the API catalog, its specifications, its scopes and its rate limits are not publicly enumerable. Catalogued as a real institution-operated surface whose contract is not published, not as an absence.

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: hku:its-api-portal
name: HKU ITS API Developer Portal and Gateway
description: HKU Information Technology Services runs an Azure API Management gateway at api.hku.hk and
  a developer portal at developer.hku.hk. Since 17 March 2026 the portal has issued subscription keys
  to students as well as staff for chat-completion, embedding and image-generation APIs across several
  hosted models. The gateway is live and answers in the APIM error envelope ({"statusCode":404,"message":"Resource
  not found"}), but every portal route — /apis, /docs/services — redirects to /signin, so the API catalog,
  its specifications, its scopes and its rate limits are not publicly enumerable. Catalogued as a real
  institution-operated surface whose contract is not published, not as an absence.
humanURL: https://developer.hku.hk/
baseURL: https://api.hku.hk
tags:
- Developer Portal
- API Gateway
- Artificial Intelligence
- Gated
- Azure API Management
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.hku.hk/
- type: Signup
  url: https://developer.hku.hk/
x-operator: institution
x-operator-evidence: Both hosts are under hku.hk and front-end to Azure Front Door endpoints provisioned
  for HKU (developer-hku-hk-*.z01.azurefd.net, api-hku-hk-*.z01.azurefd.net). The APIs behind the gateway
  are HKU ITS's own; Azure API Management is hosting, not the contract. Reclassified from tenant on 2026-08-19.
x-probe:
- url: https://developer.hku.hk/
  status: 200
  note: redirects to /signin
  probed: '2026-08-19'
- url: https://api.hku.hk/
  status: 404
  note: Azure API Management error envelope; gateway live, routes not public.
  probed: '2026-08-19'