# UCSF Profiles JSON API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/ucsf/profiles-json/  
**Provider:** University of California, San Francisco — https://apis.io/providers/ucsf/  
**Base URL:** https://api.profiles.ucsf.edu/json/v2/  
**Documentation:** https://profilesdeveloper.ucsf.edu/json-api

UCSF Profiles JSON API is one of 8 APIs that [University of California, San Francisco](https://apis.io/providers/ucsf/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition. Tagged areas include Research, Researcher Profiles, ORCID, Open Data, and JSON. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, a support channel, a JSON-LD context, and 1 JSON Schema.

Open, unauthenticated JSON API (v2) over UCSF Profiles, the research-networking platform run by UCSF CTSI, covering 8,000+ UCSF researchers, faculty and postdocs — name, school, department, titles, ORCID iD, education and training, narrative, keywords, publications, clinical trials, awards, and research activities and funding. GET requests return application/json with CORS support; JSONP is supported via a callback parameter. A `source` parameter identifying the calling application is required on every request, but it is an attribution convention rather than a credential. UCSF asks callers to make contact before production use, to add an acknowledgement, to refresh cached data at least weekly, and to leave at least one second between calls. Notably, deprecation notices travel in the response body itself via an `api_notes` field. Verified live 2026-08-19.

## Machine-readable artifacts (8)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ucsf/refs/heads/main/openapi/ucsf-profiles-json-openapi.yml
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ucsf/refs/heads/main/json-schema/ucsf-profile.json
- **Examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ucsf/refs/heads/main/examples/ucsf-profiles-json-api-response.json
- **Documentation** — https://profilesdeveloper.ucsf.edu/json-api
- **DeveloperPortal** — https://profilesdeveloper.ucsf.edu/
- **Support** — https://profilesdeveloper.ucsf.edu/contact-and-support
- **JSONLD** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ucsf/refs/heads/main/json-ld/ucsf-context.jsonld
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ucsf/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other University of California, San Francisco APIs (7)

- [UCSF Industry Documents Library Solr API](https://apis.io/apis/ucsf/industry-documents-solr/)
- [UCSF Identity Provider (Shibboleth / InCommon)](https://apis.io/apis/ucsf/incommon-idp/)
- [UCSF Industry Documents Library Content API](https://apis.io/apis/ucsf/idl-content-api/)
- [UCSF DataShare (Dryad)](https://apis.io/apis/ucsf/datashare-dryad/)
- [UCSF scholarly output via eScholarship OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/ucsf/escholarship-oai/)
- [UCSF Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo)](https://apis.io/apis/ucsf/library-discovery/)
- [UCSF Course Catalog (CourseLeaf)](https://apis.io/apis/ucsf/course-catalog/)

## Tags

Research, Researcher Profiles, ORCID, Open Data, JSON, Publications

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/ucsf/profiles-json/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/ucsf/.