# KU Leuven Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 metadata)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/ku-leuven/identity-federation/  
**Provider:** KU Leuven — https://apis.io/providers/ku-leuven/  
**Base URL:** https://idp.kuleuven.be/idp/  
**Documentation:** https://idp.kuleuven.be/idp/shibboleth

KU Leuven Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 metadata) is one of 49 APIs that [KU Leuven](https://apis.io/providers/ku-leuven/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, Belnet, and eduGAIN. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes authentication docs.

KU Leuven serves its own SAML 2.0 federation metadata from idp.kuleuven.be, which resolves to 134.58.64.219 inside the university's own address space — institution-operated, not a hosted IdP tenant. entityID urn:mace:kuleuven.be:kulassoc:kuleuven.be, registered by the Belnet federation on 2012-03-27, asserting REFEDS SIRTFI and Research & Scholarship entity categories, with Shibboleth mdui and shibmd extensions. This is machine-readable, institution-operated and was absent from the previous profile entirely. It is not consumable by general developers — relying parties must be registered service providers in Belnet or eduGAIN — but it is the authentication contract behind every federated KU Leuven service, including the Shibboleth SP in front of the ICTS pages.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ku-leuven/refs/heads/main/authentication/ku-leuven-authentication.yml
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ku-leuven/refs/heads/main/conformance/ku-leuven-education-standards.yml

## Other KU Leuven APIs (12)

- [KU Leuven Person Information API](https://apis.io/apis/ku-leuven/person/)
- [KU Leuven Educational Offering (Onderwijsaanbod) API](https://apis.io/apis/ku-leuven/program/)
- [KU Leuven Organizational Chart (Organigram) API](https://apis.io/apis/ku-leuven/organigram/)
- [KU Leuven Vacancies (Vacatures) API](https://apis.io/apis/ku-leuven/vacancies/)
- [KU Leuven Individual Timetable (Uurrooster) API](https://apis.io/apis/ku-leuven/timetable/)
- [KU Leuven Access API](https://apis.io/apis/ku-leuven/ku-leuven-access-api/)
- [KU Leuven addFilesToDataset API](https://apis.io/apis/ku-leuven/ku-leuven-addfilestodataset-api/)
- [KU Leuven addFileToDataset API](https://apis.io/apis/ku-leuven/ku-leuven-addfiletodataset-api/)
- [KU Leuven addGlobusFilesToDataset API](https://apis.io/apis/ku-leuven/ku-leuven-addglobusfilestodataset-api/)
- [KU Leuven Admin API](https://apis.io/apis/ku-leuven/ku-leuven-admin-api/)
- [KU Leuven Batch API](https://apis.io/apis/ku-leuven/ku-leuven-batch-api/)
- [KU Leuven Builtin Users API](https://apis.io/apis/ku-leuven/ku-leuven-builtin-users-api/)

## Tags

Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, Belnet, eduGAIN, Authentication, Education

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