University of California, Santa Barbara

UCSB BARC Students API

Student records as held by BARC, the campus Billing, Accounts Receivable and Collections system. Private tier; the contract is public, the data is not. Published as Swagger 2.0, 1 path, base https://api.ucsb.edu/students/private/barcstudents/v1.

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GET /students #

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https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/barc-students-api

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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ucsb/refs/heads/main/openapi/ucsb-barc-students-openapi.yml

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OpenAPI Specification

swagger: '2.0'
info:
  version: v1
  title: Public BARC Students API v1.0
  description: "Students API from the Office of the Registrar specifically for BARC mainframe retirement.\
    \ This API is designed to find student records that have changed within a given day range.\r\n   \
    \                               This API allows for querying student perms and email addresses information\
    \ for BARC systems. \r\n                               It is different from the Public Students API\
    \ as it does not provide any other student information.<br/> <br/>\r\n                        The\
    \ BasicAuth header is a base64-encoded(ucsbNetId:password) combination. The ucsbNetId/password combination\
    \ should be of a service account registered with the Campus Identity systems (ETS, the Campus LDAP).\
    \ \r\n                        This ucsbNetId needs to be supplied to the Office of the Registrar as\
    \ part of the approval process."
  x-source-url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/openapi/barcstudents-v1_0_0.yaml
  x-last-validated: '2026-08-30'
  x-operator: institution
host: api.ucsb.edu
basePath: /students/private/barcstudents/v1
schemes:
- https
securityDefinitions:
  ucsb-api-key:
    name: ucsb-api-key
    in: header
    type: apiKey
  BasicAuth:
    type: basic
security:
- ucsb-api-key: []
- BasicAuth: []
paths:
  /students:
    get:
      tags:
      - Students
      summary: ''
      operationId: /students
      consumes: []
      produces:
      - application/json
      - text/json
      - application/xml
      - text/xml
      parameters:
      - name: daysBack
        in: query
        description: Number of days to look back
        required: true
        type: integer
        format: int32
        maximum: 30
        minimum: 1
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OK
          schema:
            $ref: '#/definitions/StudentsResponse'
        '400':
          description: Bad or malformed request. See response body for details.
          schema:
            $ref: '#/definitions/WebApiInvalidModel'
        '401':
          description: Unauthorized. See response body for details.
          schema:
            $ref: '#/definitions/SimpleMessageModel'
definitions:
  StudentsRequest:
    description: Model for requests to get student data
    required:
    - daysBack
    type: object
    properties:
      daysBack:
        format: int32
        description: Number of days to look back
        maximum: 30
        minimum: 1
        type: integer
  StudentsResponse:
    description: A wrapper class that contains messaging for the API call and the payload
    type: object
    properties:
      data:
        description: Results of API call, if any. NULL on error.
        type: array
        items:
          $ref: '#/definitions/Student'
  Student:
    description: A student record that was updated within the given time frame
    type: object
    properties:
      perm:
        description: "Student Identification Number.\r\nAssigned for Undergraduates on entry to the Admissions\
          \ system.\r\nAssigned to Graduate students on entry to the Registration system.\r\nAssigned\
          \ to Summer Sessions students.\r\n\r\nPerm is also named SR_Identifier in many applications."
        type: string
      emailAddress:
        description: Email Address
        type: string
  WebApiInvalidModel:
    type: object
    properties:
      message:
        type: string
      modelState:
        type: object
        additionalProperties:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
  SimpleMessageModel:
    type: object
    properties:
      message:
        type: string