# University of Edinburgh Shibboleth Identity Provider

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-edinburgh/identity-federation/  
**Provider:** University of Edinburgh — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-edinburgh/  
**Base URL:** https://idp.ed.ac.uk/idp  
**Documentation:** https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/computing/computing-infrastructure/authentication-authorisation

University of Edinburgh Shibboleth Identity Provider is one of 10 APIs that [University of Edinburgh](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-edinburgh/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, and Authentication. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes authentication docs.

Shibboleth Identity Provider publishing SAML 2.0 entity metadata unauthenticated at a stable URL, entityID https://idp.ed.ac.uk/shibboleth. Advertises the full SAML 2.0 binding set for SSO and Single Logout plus SAML 1 artifact resolution and attribute query. Institution-operated by definition and machine-readable. Note the IdP web root returns 403 by design — the metadata path is the machine surface and it answers 200.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **x-metadata** — https://idp.ed.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-edinburgh/refs/heads/main/conformance/university-of-edinburgh-conformance.yml
- **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-edinburgh/refs/heads/main/authentication/university-of-edinburgh-authentication.yml

## Other University of Edinburgh APIs (9)

- [Edinburgh DataShare REST API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-edinburgh/datashare-repository-api/)
- [Edinburgh DataShare OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-edinburgh/datashare-oai/)
- [Edinburgh Research Archive (ERA) REST API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-edinburgh/era-repository-api/)
- [Edinburgh Research Archive (ERA) OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-edinburgh/era-oai/)
- [EIDF Data Catalogue API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-edinburgh/eidf-data-catalogue-api/)
- [ELM — Edinburgh Language Models API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-edinburgh/elm-api/)
- [Enterprise API Gateway (gated)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-edinburgh/enterprise-api-gateway/)
- [Edinburgh Research Explorer (Elsevier Pure) — tenant](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-edinburgh/pure-research-explorer/)
- [DiscoverEd Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo) — tenant](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-edinburgh/discovered-primo/)

## Tags

Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, Authentication

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