University of Chicago

University of Chicago Gen3 Fence — register API

The register API from University of Chicago — 1 operation(s) for register.

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GET /user/register Register in order to get access to download data

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Gen3 Fence OpenAPI Specification Register API
  version: 0.1.0
  description: 'Fence is the Gen3 authentication and authorization service, authored by the University of Chicago Center for Translational Data Science. Code: https://github.com/uc-cdis/fence'
  termsOfService: http://cdis.uchicago.edu/terms/
  contact:
    email: cdis@uchicago.edu
  license:
    name: Apache 2.0
    url: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html
servers:
- url: https://gen3.datacommons.io/
  description: University of Chicago Center for Translational Data Science (CTDS) reference Gen3 data commons. Gen3 is deployable software authored by CTDS (github.com/uc-cdis), so the upstream specification ships a placeholder host; this is the base URL of the deployment CTDS itself operates. The datacommons.io domain is registered to CDIS, University of Chicago.
  x-operator: institution
  x-verified: '2026-08-19'
  x-verified-evidence: https://gen3.datacommons.io/.well-known/openid-configuration
tags:
- name: register
paths:
  /user/register:
    get:
      tags:
      - register
      summary: Register in order to get access to download data
      description: This register functionality enables a registration page for users to provide basic information before being added to a preconfigured group. The GET request will redirect to a HTML page where users can provide their first name, last name, organization, and email, in order to gain some predefined permissions (i.e. to be automatically added to a preconfigured Arborist group).
      responses:
        200:
          description: success
          content:
            text/markdown:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/RegisterUser'
components:
  schemas:
    RegisterUser:
      type: object
      required:
      - firstname
      - lastname
      - org
      - email
      properties:
        firstname:
          type: string
          description: The firstname of the end-user
        lastname:
          type: string
          description: The lastname of the end-user
        org:
          type: string
          description: The org of the end-user
        email:
          type: string
          description: The email of the end-user
  securitySchemes:
    OAuth2:
      type: oauth2
      flows:
        authorizationCode:
          authorizationUrl: /oauth/authorize
          tokenUrl: /oauth/token
          scopes:
            user: generic user access