# Peking University Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 metadata)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/peking/idp-saml/  
**Provider:** Peking University — https://apis.io/providers/peking/  
**Base URL:** https://idp.pku.edu.cn/idp  
**Documentation:** https://idp.pku.edu.cn/idp/shibboleth

Peking University Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 metadata) is one of 8 APIs that [Peking University](https://apis.io/providers/peking/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, eduGAIN, and Authentication. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes authentication docs.

The university's federated identity provider, publishing live Shibboleth/SAML 2.0 metadata as machine-readable XML. Declares SAML 2.0 POST, POST-SimpleSign and Redirect SSO/SLO bindings, the legacy Shibboleth SSO profile, an AttributeAuthorityDescriptor, and SOAP ArtifactResolution / AttributeQuery / SLO endpoints on port 8443. This is the surface class universities operate by definition and almost never catalogue.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/peking/refs/heads/main/authentication/peking-authentication.yml
- **Examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/peking/refs/heads/main/examples/peking-idp-saml-metadata.xml
- **Website** — https://idp.pku.edu.cn/idp/shibboleth

## Other Peking University APIs (7)

- [PKU Institutional Repository REST API](https://apis.io/apis/peking/ir-rest/)
- [PKU Institutional Repository OAI-PMH API](https://apis.io/apis/peking/ir-oai-pmh/)
- [PKU Institutional Repository OpenSearch Feed](https://apis.io/apis/peking/ir-opensearch/)
- [CARSI — CERNET Authentication and Resource Sharing Infrastructure](https://apis.io/apis/peking/carsi/)
- [OpenSCOW / CraneSched research-computing APIs](https://apis.io/apis/peking/openscow/)
- [PKU Open Research Data Platform (Dataverse REST API)](https://apis.io/apis/peking/opendata-rest/)
- [PKU Open Research Data Platform (OAI-PMH)](https://apis.io/apis/peking/opendata-oaipmh/)

## Tags

Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, eduGAIN, Authentication

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