# Pitt Passport (Shibboleth SAML 2.0 Identity Provider)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-pittsburgh/pitt-passport-idp/  
**Provider:** University of Pittsburgh — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-pittsburgh/  
**Base URL:** https://passport.pitt.edu/idp/shibboleth  
**Documentation:** https://passport.pitt.edu

Pitt Passport (Shibboleth SAML 2.0 Identity Provider) is one of 6 APIs that [University of Pittsburgh](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-pittsburgh/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity Federation, Authentication, SSO, Shibboleth, and SAML.

The University of Pittsburgh's campus-wide single sign-on identity provider. Its SAML 2.0 metadata is publicly readable at the canonical Shibboleth /idp/shibboleth location, declares the shibmd namespace and asserts <shibmd:Scope>pitt.edu</shibmd:Scope>, with OrganizationName "University of Pittsburgh" and four contacts at pitt.edu. It is a registered InCommon — and thereby eduGAIN — entity, and InCommon's MDQ service returns a signed EntityDescriptor for it with a machine-readable validUntil. An authentication service for relying service providers, not a data API, and the surface that makes the shibboleth and saml conformance hits in this repository real. Discovered 2026-08-30 and absent from the June 2026 profile.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Metadata** — https://passport.pitt.edu/idp/shibboleth
- **Metadata** — https://mdq.incommon.org/entities/https%3A%2F%2Fpassport.pitt.edu%2Fidp%2Fshibboleth
- **Examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-pittsburgh/refs/heads/main/examples/university-of-pittsburgh-pitt-passport-saml-metadata.xml

## Other University of Pittsburgh APIs (5)

- [Project Tycho API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-pittsburgh/project-tycho/)
- [Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center (WPRDC) CKAN API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-pittsburgh/wprdc-ckan/)
- [ULS E-Journal Publishing — OAI-PMH 2.0 providers](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-pittsburgh/uls-ejournal-oai/)
- [D-Scholarship@Pitt Institutional Repository (Hyku Commons) — tenant](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-pittsburgh/d-scholarship-oai/)
- [PittAPI (Pitt Computer Science Club) — student-built](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-pittsburgh/pittapi/)

## Tags

Identity Federation, Authentication, SSO, Shibboleth, SAML, InCommon

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