University of California, Santa Barbara

UCSB Campus API Gateway

The single API front door for the campus, at api.ucsb.edu. Every campus API is published as a proxy on it and it enforces the ucsb-api-key application entitlement before a request reaches a backend web service. It runs on Apigee (api.ucsb.edu CNAMEs to ucsb-prod.apigee.net) but the domain, the proxies, the API products and the backend services are UCSB’s, so this is institution-operated infrastructure on a vendor runtime, not a vendor tenancy. Probed live 2026-08-30: an unauthenticated call returns 401 with an Apigee fault envelope, and the CORS allow-list advertises the whole auth surface — ucsb-api-key, ucsb-api-version, ucsb-user-jwt.

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Documentation

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Documentation
https://developer.ucsb.edu/docs/security/overview
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Authentication
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ucsb/refs/heads/main/authentication/ucsb-authentication.yml

Other Resources

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Scopes
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ucsb/refs/heads/main/scopes/ucsb-scopes.yml
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Errors
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ucsb/refs/heads/main/errors/ucsb-problem-types.yml
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Rules
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ucsb/refs/heads/main/rules/ucsb-rules.yml
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Lifecycle
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ucsb/refs/heads/main/lifecycle/ucsb-lifecycle.yml
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Conformance
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ucsb/refs/heads/main/conformance/ucsb-conformance.yml
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Vocabulary
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ucsb/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/ucsb-vocabulary.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: ucsb:campus-api-gateway
name: UCSB Campus API Gateway
description: 'The single API front door for the campus, at api.ucsb.edu. Every campus API is published
  as a proxy on it and it enforces the ucsb-api-key application entitlement before a request reaches a
  backend web service. It runs on Apigee (api.ucsb.edu CNAMEs to ucsb-prod.apigee.net) but the domain,
  the proxies, the API products and the backend services are UCSB’s, so this is institution-operated infrastructure
  on a vendor runtime, not a vendor tenancy. Probed live 2026-08-30: an unauthenticated call returns 401
  with an Apigee fault envelope, and the CORS allow-list advertises the whole auth surface — ucsb-api-key,
  ucsb-api-version, ucsb-user-jwt.'
humanURL: https://developer.ucsb.edu/docs/security/overview
baseURL: https://api.ucsb.edu
x-operator: institution
tags:
- API Gateway
- Campus
- Security
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/docs/security/overview
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/ucsb-authentication.yml
- type: Scopes
  url: scopes/ucsb-scopes.yml
- type: Errors
  url: errors/ucsb-problem-types.yml
- type: Rules
  url: rules/ucsb-rules.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/ucsb-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/ucsb-conformance.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/ucsb-vocabulary.yml