University of Lisbon Degrees 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: Degrees
  description: Degree catalog and the courses that belong to a degree.
paths:
  /degrees:
    get:
      tags:
      - Degrees
      operationId: listDegrees
      summary: All degrees offered, optionally for one academic term
      security: []
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/academicTerm'
      x-probe:
        date: '2026-09-01'
        status: 200
        content_type: application/json
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Degree list.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: array
                items:
                  $ref: '#/components/schemas/Degree'
  /degrees/{id}:
    get:
      tags:
      - Degrees
      operationId: getDegree
      summary: One degree, with campus, descriptive information and teaching staff
      security: []
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/id'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/academicTerm'
      x-probe:
        date: '2026-09-01'
        status: 200
        content_type: application/json
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Degree record.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Degree'
              examples:
                live:
                  externalValue: ../examples/fenixedu-degree.json
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
  /degrees/{id}/courses:
    get:
      tags:
      - Degrees
      operationId: listDegreeCourses
      summary: Courses belonging to a degree in an academic term
      security: []
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/id'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/academicTerm'
      x-probe:
        date: '2026-09-01'
        status: 200
        content_type: application/json
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Course list. May be empty for a term in which the degree ran no courses.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: array
                items:
                  $ref: '#/components/schemas/CourseSummary'
components:
  schemas:
    SpaceSummary:
      type: object
      required:
      - id
      - name
      - type
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
        name:
          type: string
        type:
          type: string
          description: Observed values include CAMPUS, BUILDING, FLOOR and ROOM.
    CourseSummary:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
        name:
          type: string
        acronym:
          type: string
        academicTerm:
          type: string
        url:
          type: string
          format: uri
    DegreeInfo:
      type: object
      description: Descriptive prose about a degree. Values are HTML fragments, frequently HTML-entity encoded.
      properties:
        description:
          type: string
        objectives:
          type: string
        designFor:
          type: string
        requisites:
          type: string
        profissionalExits:
          type: string
        history:
          type: string
        operationRegime:
          type: string
        gratuity:
          type: string
        links:
          type: string
    Degree:
      type: object
      required:
      - id
      - name
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
        name:
          type: string
        acronym:
          type: string
        academicTerm:
          type: string
        academicTerms:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        type:
          type: string
        typeName:
          type: string
        url:
          type: string
          format: uri
        campus:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/SpaceSummary'
        info:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/DegreeInfo'
        teachers:
          type: array
          description: Named teaching staff with personal e-mail addresses and homepage URLs. The captured example in ../examples/ redacts this array under the API Evangelist personal-data guardrail.
          items:
            type: object
            properties:
              name:
                type: string
              istId:
                type: string
              mails:
                type: array
                items:
                  type: string
              urls:
                type: array
                items:
                  type: string
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        error:
          type: string
        description:
          type: string
  responses:
    NotFound:
      description: No resource with the supplied identifier. Observed 2026-09-01.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
          examples:
            live:
              externalValue: ../examples/fenixedu-error-404.json
  parameters:
    academicTerm:
      name: academicTerm
      in: query
      required: false
      description: Academic term in the form "2025/2026". Defaults to the current term.
      schema:
        type: string
        pattern: ^[0-9]{4}/[0-9]{4}$
      example: 2025/2026
    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: {}