# University of St Andrews Shibboleth Identity Provider

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-st-andrews/identity-federation/  
**Provider:** University of St Andrews — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-st-andrews/  
**Base URL:** https://login.st-andrews.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth  
**Documentation:** https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/it-support/

University of St Andrews Shibboleth Identity Provider is one of 7 APIs that [University of St Andrews](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-st-andrews/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity, Identity Federation, Shibboleth, SAML, and Single Sign-On. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

The University's own SAML 2.0 / Shibboleth Identity Provider, entityID https://idp.st-andrews.ac.uk/shibboleth, registered in the UK Access Management Federation as entity uk000278 since 2008-01-16 and therefore reachable through eduGAIN. The IdP serves its own machine-readable SAML metadata at https://login.st-andrews.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth (verified 200, application/xml, 4,351 bytes, validUntil 2040-07-01). The federation entity declares shibmd:Scope st-andrews.ac.uk, SSO bindings over HTTP-POST, HTTP-POST-SimpleSign and HTTP-Redirect, an AttributeAuthorityDescriptor exposing SAML 1.0 and 2.0 SOAP attribute queries, and REFEDS Sirtfi assurance certification. A federation is shared by definition and the IdP behind it is the institution's own - this is the strongest institution-operated machine-readable surface St Andrews has.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — http://metadata.ukfederation.org.uk/ukfederation-metadata.xml
- **x-conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-st-andrews/refs/heads/main/conformance/university-of-st-andrews-education-standards.yml

## Other University of St Andrews APIs (6)

- [St Andrews Research Repository OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-st-andrews/repository-oai/)
- [St Andrews Research Portal (Elsevier Pure tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-st-andrews/research-portal/)
- [University of St Andrews Service Status API (SorryApp tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-st-andrews/status-api/)
- [DataCite Membership (provider NAHY)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-st-andrews/datacite-membership/)
- [Crossref Membership (member 6332)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-st-andrews/crossref-membership/)
- [ROR Registration (02wn5qz54)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-st-andrews/ror-registration/)

## Tags

Identity, Identity Federation, Shibboleth, SAML, Single Sign-On

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