# HKUST API Gateway and API Portal

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/hkust/api-gateway/  
**Provider:** Hong Kong University of Science and Technology — https://apis.io/providers/hkust/  
**Base URL:** https://hkust.azure-api.net  
**Documentation:** https://hkust.developer.azure-api.net/

HKUST API Gateway and API Portal is one of 6 APIs that [Hong Kong University of Science and Technology](https://apis.io/providers/hkust/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include API Gateway, Azure API Management, Developer Portal, Campus, and IoT. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an API reference, and authentication docs.

HKUST's Azure API Management tenant, operated by the IT Services Office. The gateway is live and callable at hkust.azure-api.net and returns the Azure APIM 401 "missing subscription key" on the two products HKUST documents publicly — sensor-data and sensor-inventory, the IoT feeds from the Open Data Platform. Access requires an ITSO account, a Product subscription request, and approval by email; keys travel in the X-Apim-Subscription-Key header. The developer portal is the stock Azure APIM portal and lists nothing to an anonymous visitor. Recorded as tenant: HKUST chose and configures the platform, but hkust.azure-api.net is a subdomain of Microsoft's azure-api.net and the gateway contract is Azure API Management's. The previously catalogued base URL https://api.ust.hk is NXDOMAIN on HKUST's own nameservers and has been removed.

## Machine-readable artifacts (5)

- **DeveloperPortal** — https://hkust.developer.azure-api.net/
- **Signup** — https://hkust.developer.azure-api.net/signup
- **Documentation** — https://itso.hkust.edu.hk/services/it-infrastructure/api-gateway-api-portal
- **APIReference** — https://itso.hkust.edu.hk/services/it-infrastructure/smart-campus-infrastructure/open-data-platform/retrieve-iot-data-api
- **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/hkust/refs/heads/main/authentication/hkust-authentication.yml

## Other Hong Kong University of Science and Technology APIs (5)

- [HKUST Path Advisor API](https://apis.io/apis/hkust/path-advisor/)
- [DataSpace@HKUST Research Data Repository API](https://apis.io/apis/hkust/dataspace/)
- [HKUST Shibboleth Identity Provider](https://apis.io/apis/hkust/identity-federation/)
- [HKUST Library Crossref DOI Registration](https://apis.io/apis/hkust/crossref-doi/)
- [HKUST Open Data Platform](https://apis.io/apis/hkust/open-data-platform/)

## Tags

API Gateway, Azure API Management, Developer Portal, Campus, IoT

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/hkust/api-gateway/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/hkust/.