Stanford University

ExploreCourses course-data XML query interface

The Registrar's course catalog, queryable as XML by appending view=xml-20140630 to a search. Open, no credential, and the largest genuinely public dataset Stanford serves — a single department query returned 17MB in August 2026. No formal reference is published; the query form is community-documented. The response itself carries true and 20200810.

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About
https://explorecourses.stanford.edu/about
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Examples
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/stanford/refs/heads/main/examples/stanford-explorecourses-example.xml

API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: stanford:explorecourses
name: ExploreCourses course-data XML query interface
x-operator: institution
description: The Registrar's course catalog, queryable as XML by appending view=xml-20140630 to a search.
  Open, no credential, and the largest genuinely public dataset Stanford serves — a single department
  query returned 17MB in August 2026. No formal reference is published; the query form is community-documented.
  The response itself carries <deprecated>true</deprecated> and <latestVersion>20200810</latestVersion>.
humanURL: https://explorecourses.stanford.edu/about
baseURL: https://explorecourses.stanford.edu/search
tags:
- Course Catalog
- Registrar
- Open Data
properties:
- type: About
  url: https://explorecourses.stanford.edu/about
- type: Examples
  url: examples/stanford-explorecourses-example.xml