Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University SIS Codes API

Reference code lists — schools, terms and departments — from the Self-Service Public Course Search API. The lookup vocabulary that makes the Classes API's filters usable. Requires an API key on the `key` query parameter.

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Operations 3

GET /classes/codes/schools List all available schools #

GET /classes/codes/terms List available academic terms #

GET /classes/codes/departments/{school} List departments for a school #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Self-Service Public Course Search API (SIS) Codes API
  description: Returns, in JSON format, a list of courses available through the Johns Hopkins University Public Course Search (https://sis.jhu.edu/classes). Results can be filtered by school, department, course number, section number, and academic term, or via a custom advanced-search query string. All requests require an API key supplied as the `key` query parameter. Endpoints, parameters and the response data dictionary are derived from the official SIS Web API Help page at https://sis.jhu.edu/api/help.
  version: 1.0.0
  contact:
    name: SIS Development Team, Johns Hopkins University
    url: https://sis.jhu.edu/api/help
servers:
- url: https://sis.jhu.edu/api
  description: SIS Public Course Search API
security:
- apiKey: []
tags:
- name: Codes
  description: Reference code lists (schools, terms, departments).
paths:
  /classes/codes/schools:
    get:
      tags:
      - Codes
      operationId: listSchools
      summary: List all available schools
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/key'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: List of available school names.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: array
                items:
                  $ref: '#/components/schemas/CodeValue'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
  /classes/codes/terms:
    get:
      tags:
      - Codes
      operationId: listTerms
      summary: List available academic terms
      description: Returns available academic terms. The range returned is from Spring 2009 to one year in the future from the current term.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/key'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: List of available academic terms.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: array
                items:
                  $ref: '#/components/schemas/CodeValue'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
  /classes/codes/departments/{school}:
    get:
      tags:
      - Codes
      operationId: listDepartments
      summary: List departments for a school
      description: Returns the list of all departments for the specified school. School names must be typed exactly as returned by /classes/codes/schools, with spaces encoded as %20. Department names containing a forward slash must encode it as an underscore (_).
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/key'
      - name: school
        in: path
        required: true
        description: Exact school name.
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: List of departments for the school.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: array
                items:
                  $ref: '#/components/schemas/CodeValue'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
components:
  schemas:
    CodeValue:
      type: object
      description: A reference code/value pair (school, term, or department).
      properties:
        Name:
          type: string
        Value:
          type: string
  parameters:
    key:
      name: key
      in: query
      required: true
      description: API key issued after registration at https://sis.jhu.edu/api/help.
      schema:
        type: string
  responses:
    Unauthorized:
      description: API key missing or invalid.
      content:
        text/plain:
          schema:
            type: string
          example: 'Unable to authenticate: API Key parameter is missing in URL'
  securitySchemes:
    apiKey:
      type: apiKey
      in: query
      name: key

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