# Shibboleth SAML Identity Provider (UK Access Management Federation)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-manchester/shibboleth-saml-idp/  
**Provider:** University of Manchester — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-manchester/  
**Base URL:** http://mdq.ukfederation.org.uk/entities/https%3A%2F%2Fshib.manchester.ac.uk%2Fshibboleth  
**Documentation:** https://www.itservices.manchester.ac.uk/

Shibboleth SAML Identity Provider (UK Access Management Federation) is one of 5 APIs that [University of Manchester](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-manchester/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity, SSO, SAML, Shibboleth, and Federation. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes authentication docs and API documentation.

The University's own Shibboleth Identity Provider, entityID https://shib.manchester.ac.uk/shibboleth, asserting the scope manchester.ac.uk. Its entity descriptor is published as signed, machine-readable SAML metadata through the Jisc UK Access Management Federation MDQ service and onward into eduGAIN — retrieved live on 2026-08-19 (200, 9647 bytes) and saved to this repo. Advertises SAML 2.0, SAML 1.1 and the native Shibboleth authn profile over HTTP-Redirect, HTTP-POST, HTTP-POST-SimpleSign and SOAP artifact resolution. Institution-operated by definition, and the single most under-catalogued programmable asset a university runs. Note that the IdP is not a public developer API: an application cannot obtain an assertion without being registered as a service provider in the federation.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-manchester/refs/heads/main/authentication/university-of-manchester-authentication.yml
- **IdentityFederation** — http://mdq.ukfederation.org.uk/entities/https%3A%2F%2Fshib.manchester.ac.uk%2Fshibboleth
- **Documentation** — https://www.itservices.manchester.ac.uk/

## Other University of Manchester APIs (4)

- [Manchester Digital Collections — IIIF Presentation API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-manchester/iiif-presentation-api/)
- [Manchester Digital Collections — IIIF Image API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-manchester/iiif-image-api/)
- [Elsevier Pure CRIS tenancy (REST + OAI-PMH)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-manchester/pure-cris-tenancy/)
- [Figshare research data repository tenancy](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-manchester/figshare-tenancy/)

## Tags

Identity, SSO, SAML, Shibboleth, Federation, eduGAIN

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