# Imperial Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/imperial-college-london/shibboleth-idp/  
**Provider:** Imperial College London — https://apis.io/providers/imperial-college-london/  
**Documentation:** https://www.imperial.ac.uk/admin-services/ict/

Imperial Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0) is one of 5 APIs that [Imperial College London](https://apis.io/providers/imperial-college-london/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity, Identity Federation, SSO, SAML, and Shibboleth. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

Imperial's own Shibboleth IdP, and the one unambiguously institution-operated machine-readable contract it publishes. The metadata document at /idp/shibboleth is a live 12.5KB SAML 2.0 EntityDescriptor with entityID https://shibboleth.imperial.ac.uk/shibboleth, one IDPSSODescriptor and one AttributeAuthorityDescriptor, SSO and SLO endpoints for the SAML2 Redirect, POST and POST-SimpleSign bindings plus legacy Shibboleth SSO, SOAP ArtifactResolution and AttributeQuery on :8443, and a `shibmd:Scope` of imperial.ac.uk. The entityID is registered in the UK Access Management Federation aggregate. This is not a REST API and is not self-service — consuming it means being a federation member — but it is a published, versioned, machine-readable interface contract that Imperial itself operates.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **x-saml-metadata** — https://shibboleth.imperial.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth
- **Documentation** — https://www.ukfederation.org.uk/
- **Website** — https://www.imperial.ac.uk/admin-services/ict/
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/imperial-college-london/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Imperial College London APIs (4)

- [Spiral Open Access Repository (DSpace 7 REST API)](https://apis.io/apis/imperial-college-london/spiral-dspace-rest/)
- [Spiral OAI-PMH Metadata Harvesting Endpoint](https://apis.io/apis/imperial-college-london/spiral-oai-pmh/)
- [Imperial Canvas LTI 1.3 / OIDC Platform Endpoints](https://apis.io/apis/imperial-college-london/canvas-lti-platform/)
- [Imperial Blackboard Learn REST API](https://apis.io/apis/imperial-college-london/blackboard-learn-rest/)

## Tags

Identity, Identity Federation, SSO, SAML, Shibboleth

---

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