University of Lisbon Courses API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: FenixEdu Academic API — Instituto Superior Tecnico…
  version: v1
  summary: Public academic, campus and campus-life API of the FenixEdu academic information system operated by Instituto Superior Tecnico.
  description: Public REST API of FenixEdu, the academic information system operated by Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST), a school of the Universidade de Lisboa.
  contact:
    name: Instituto Superior Tecnico — Universidade de Lisboa
    url: https://tecnico.ulisboa.pt/
    email: mail@tecnico.ulisboa.pt
  license:
    name: Not stated by the provider
  termsOfService: https://www.ulisboa.pt/en/info/terms-use-0
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-evidence: Host fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt is under the institution's own registrable domain ulisboa.pt; /about returns institutionName "Instituto Superior Tecnico" and institutionUrl https://tecnico.ulisboa.pt/; the OAuth dialog at /oauth/userdialog carries an Instituto Superior Tecnico copyright notice. No vendor name appears in servers[], info.title, info.contact or the served payloads.
  x-provenance:
    generated: '2026-09-01'
    method: probed
    source:
    - https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/api/fenix/v1/about
    - https://fenixedu.org/dev/api/
    note: Derived by API Evangelist from live probes and the provider's own human documentation. Not published by Universidade de Lisboa or by Instituto Superior Tecnico.
servers:
- url: https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/api/fenix/v1
  description: Production — Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa
tags:
- name: Courses
  description: Individual course units, their schedules, groups, evaluations and students.
paths:
  /courses/{id}:
    get:
      tags:
      - Courses
      operationId: getCourse
      summary: One course unit
      security: []
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/id'
      x-probe:
        date: '2026-09-01'
        status: 404
        note: probed with a deliberately invalid id to capture the error contract
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Course record.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/CourseSummary'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
  /courses/{id}/evaluations:
    get:
      tags:
      - Courses
      operationId: listCourseEvaluations
      summary: Evaluations scheduled for a course
      security: []
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/id'
      x-documented-only: true
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Evaluation list.
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
  /courses/{id}/groups:
    get:
      tags:
      - Courses
      operationId: listCourseGroups
      summary: Student groupings for a course
      security: []
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/id'
      x-documented-only: true
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Group list.
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
  /courses/{id}/schedule:
    get:
      tags:
      - Courses
      operationId: getCourseSchedule
      summary: Timetable for a course
      security: []
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/id'
      x-documented-only: true
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Course schedule.
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
  /courses/{id}/students:
    get:
      tags:
      - Courses
      operationId: listCourseStudents
      summary: Enrolment counts and student listing for a course
      security: []
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/id'
      x-documented-only: true
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Student listing.
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
components:
  schemas:
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        error:
          type: string
        description:
          type: string
    CourseSummary:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
        name:
          type: string
        acronym:
          type: string
        academicTerm:
          type: string
        url:
          type: string
          format: uri
  responses:
    NotFound:
      description: No resource with the supplied identifier. Observed 2026-09-01.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
          examples:
            live:
              externalValue: ../examples/fenixedu-error-404.json
  parameters:
    id:
      name: id
      in: path
      required: true
      description: FenixEdu external identifier of the resource.
      schema:
        type: string
  securitySchemes:
    fenixOAuth:
      type: oauth2
      description: Bennu OAuth 2.0, the authorization layer shipped with FenixEdu and copyrighted by Instituto Superior Tecnico. Applications are registered by an authenticated member of the institution; the access scopes granted are chosen per application at registration time and are not enumerated in a machine-readable document, so no scope names are asserted here.
      flows:
        authorizationCode:
          authorizationUrl: https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/oauth/userdialog
          tokenUrl: https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/oauth/access_token
          scopes: {}