TU Dresden

TU Dresden Lecture Catalog API (Vorlesungsverzeichnis)

A gated JSON API over the public data of the TU Dresden lecture directory — courses, seminars, instructors, buildings, semesters, institutes and degree programmes. Access requires an API account requested through the faculty contact page, after which an auth_code query parameter is appended to every call; the documentation asks for at least ten seconds between requests. The documented parameters are notitle, type, gebaeude, first_name plus last_name, datetype (including a discordian calendar option), pruefungen with studiengang, semester (accepting "current"), and institut, along with gebaeude_liste, dozenten_liste and institute_liste enumerations. Responses are JSON with the first element carrying column headings. Verified live and validating: a request with auth_code=test returns HTTP 200 and the plain-text German string "Der Auth-Code ist leider nicht richtig." No OpenAPI exists for it and none has been authored here — writing one from a prose parameter table would credit TU Dresden with a contract it has not published. The faculty scope is a real limit: this is one faculty's timetable, not a university-wide registrar API.

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Documentation

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Documentation
https://vvz.phil.tu-dresden.de/api
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Authentication
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tu-dresden/refs/heads/main/authentication/tu-dresden-authentication.yml

Other Resources

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Website
https://vvz.phil.tu-dresden.de/
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Errors
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tu-dresden/refs/heads/main/errors/tu-dresden-problem-types.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: tu-dresden:lecture-catalog
name: TU Dresden Lecture Catalog API (Vorlesungsverzeichnis)
x-operator: institution
x-operator-evidence: vvz.phil.tu-dresden.de is under the university's own registrable domain and is run
  by the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. The documentation page is authored in German
  by the faculty, accounts are issued through the faculty's own contact page, and no vendor software,
  contract or host is involved. Note that the five removed SLUB contracts wrongly carried this host as
  their baseURL; it belongs only to this surface.
description: 'A gated JSON API over the public data of the TU Dresden lecture directory — courses, seminars,
  instructors, buildings, semesters, institutes and degree programmes. Access requires an API account
  requested through the faculty contact page, after which an auth_code query parameter is appended to
  every call; the documentation asks for at least ten seconds between requests. The documented parameters
  are notitle, type, gebaeude, first_name plus last_name, datetype (including a discordian calendar option),
  pruefungen with studiengang, semester (accepting "current"), and institut, along with gebaeude_liste,
  dozenten_liste and institute_liste enumerations. Responses are JSON with the first element carrying
  column headings. Verified live and validating: a request with auth_code=test returns HTTP 200 and the
  plain-text German string "Der Auth-Code ist leider nicht richtig." No OpenAPI exists for it and none
  has been authored here — writing one from a prose parameter table would credit TU Dresden with a contract
  it has not published. The faculty scope is a real limit: this is one faculty''s timetable, not a university-wide
  registrar API.'
humanURL: https://vvz.phil.tu-dresden.de/api
baseURL: https://vvz.phil.tu-dresden.de/api
tags:
- Course Catalog
- Timetable
- Education
- JSON
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://vvz.phil.tu-dresden.de/api
- type: Website
  url: https://vvz.phil.tu-dresden.de/
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/tu-dresden-authentication.yml
- type: Errors
  url: errors/tu-dresden-problem-types.yml