University of Toronto Courses API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: University of Toronto Timetable Builder Courses API
  version: '2026-08-19'
  x-operator: institution
  x-provenance:
    generated: '2026-08-19'
    method: derived
    source: Derived by API Evangelist from live, unauthenticated probes of https://api.easi.utoronto.ca/ttb on 2026-08-19 and from the operation constants declared in the official Timetable Builder client bundle at https://ttb.utoronto.ca/main.934e36b03104594f.js. The University of Toronto does not publish an OpenAPI description for this API; this document is a third-party observation, not a University of Toronto artifact.
  description: 'Unofficial, observation-derived description of the public JSON API behind the University of Toronto Timetable Builder (https://ttb.utoronto.ca), operated by Enterprise Applications and Solutions Integration (EASI) within U of T Information Technology Services. The host api.easi.utoronto.ca is under the University''s own registrable domain (utoronto.ca), which makes this one of the few genuinely institution-operated programmable surfaces at U of T.

    The API serves course, section, meeting-time, instructor, enrolment-control and building data for the University''s academic timetable across all three campuses (St. George, Mississauga, Scarborough) and all divisions. No API key, token or other credential is required. The service sets Access-Control-Allow-Origin: https://ttb.utoronto.ca, so browser callers from other origins are blocked while server-to-server callers are not.

    NOT AN OFFICIAL CONTRACT. The University publishes no developer portal, no terms of use for this API, no rate-limit statement and no versioning policy. Treat every shape here as observed behaviour that the University may change without notice.'
  contact:
    name: University of Toronto — Enterprise Applications and Solutions Integration (EASI)
    url: https://easi.its.utoronto.ca/
  termsOfService: https://www.utoronto.ca/privacy
servers:
- url: https://api.easi.utoronto.ca/ttb
  description: Production Timetable Builder API (probed live 2026-08-19)
tags:
- name: Courses
  description: Course, section and meeting-time retrieval.
paths:
  /getPageableCourses:
    post:
      tags:
      - Courses
      operationId: getPageableCourses
      summary: Search the timetable, one page at a time
      description: 'The primary search operation. Accepts a faceted search body and returns a page of matching courses together with the divisional legends and enrolment-indicator glossaries needed to render them. Verified live 2026-08-19: HTTP 200 with course data for courseCode CSC108H1, session 20269, division ARTSC.

        A search that matches nothing returns HTTP 404 with a body-level status code 4404 and a null payload, not an empty collection — see the ApplicationStatus schema.'
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/CourseSearch'
            examples:
              live:
                externalValue: ../examples/ttb-pageable-courses-request.json
      responses:
        '200':
          description: One page of matching courses.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/PageableCourseEnvelope'
              examples:
                live:
                  externalValue: ../examples/ttb-pageable-courses-response.json
            application/xml:
              schema:
                type: string
                description: 'Returned when the client does not send Accept: application/json. The service content-negotiates and will emit a <TTBResponse> XML document instead.'
        '404':
          description: 'Either the gateway did not match the route, or the search matched no courses. The two are distinguishable by body: a gateway miss carries statusCode/message, a no-result search carries a null payload and status code 4404.'
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                oneOf:
                - $ref: '#/components/schemas/GatewayError'
                - $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApplicationStatusEnvelope'
              examples:
                noResults:
                  externalValue: ../examples/ttb-no-results-response.json
                gatewayMiss:
                  externalValue: ../examples/ttb-gateway-404-response.json
  /getCourses:
    post:
      tags:
      - Courses
      operationId: getCourses
      summary: Search the timetable without paging
      description: 'Same search body as getPageableCourses minus the paging fields, returning every match in one response. Verified live 2026-08-19: HTTP 200 with a 12.9 MB body for a division-wide search. Callers should prefer getPageableCourses; there is no documented rate limit and no compression negotiated by default.'
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/CourseSearch'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Every matching course.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  payload:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      $ref: '#/components/schemas/Course'
                  status:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApplicationStatus'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/GatewayNotFound'
  /getCoursesByCodeAndSectionCode/{code}:
    get:
      tags:
      - Courses
      operationId: getCoursesByCodeAndSectionCode
      summary: Retrieve every offering of one course code
      description: 'Returns the pageable-course envelope for a single course code. Verified live 2026-08-19 with code CSC108H1: HTTP 200, ~295 KB. The client bundle also builds a two-segment form carrying a section code; that form returned HTTP 404 on 2026-08-19 and is therefore NOT described here.'
      parameters:
      - name: code
        in: path
        required: true
        description: Uppercase course code, for example CSC108H1.
        schema:
          type: string
          pattern: ^[A-Z]{3}[0-9]{3}[A-Z][0-9]$
        example: CSC108H1
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Offerings of the requested course.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/PageableCourseEnvelope'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/GatewayNotFound'
components:
  schemas:
    PageableCourseEnvelope:
      type: object
      properties:
        payload:
          type: object
          properties:
            pageableCourse:
              type: object
              properties:
                courses:
                  type: array
                  items:
                    $ref: '#/components/schemas/Course'
                total:
                  type: integer
                page:
                  type: integer
                pageSize:
                  type: integer
                direction:
                  type: string
            divisionalLegends:
              type: object
              description: Division code to an HTML legend explaining that division's course coding.
              additionalProperties:
                type: string
            divisionalEnrolmentIndicators:
              type: object
              description: Division code to the list of enrolment-control indicator codes it uses.
              additionalProperties:
                type: array
                items:
                  type: object
                  properties:
                    code:
                      type: string
                    name:
                      type: string
        status:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApplicationStatus'
    GatewayError:
      type: object
      description: Edge-level error emitted by the api.easi.utoronto.ca gateway before the TTB service is reached.
      properties:
        statusCode:
          type: integer
          example: 404
        message:
          type: string
          example: Resource not found
    ApplicationStatusEnvelope:
      type: object
      properties:
        payload:
          type: 'null'
        status:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApplicationStatus'
    Course:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          description: Opaque identifier. Observed to change between timetable publications — not a stable key.
          example: 69dd3ea4830c3634bbb69786
        name:
          type: string
          example: Mathematics of Finance for Non-Actuaries
        ucName:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        code:
          type: string
          example: ACT230H1
        sectionCode:
          type: string
          enum:
          - F
          - S
          - Y
        campus:
          type: string
          example: St. George
        sessions:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        sections:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Section'
    MeetingTime:
      type: object
      properties:
        start:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/DayTime'
        end:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/DayTime'
        building:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Building'
        sessionCode:
          type: string
        repetition:
          type: string
          example: WEEKLY
        repetitionTime:
          type: string
          example: ONCE_A_WEEK
    Building:
      type: object
      properties:
        buildingCode:
          type: string
          example: SF
        buildingRoomNumber:
          type: string
        buildingRoomSuffix:
          type: string
        buildingUrl:
          type: string
          format: uri
          description: Deep link into the official U of T campus map at https://map.utoronto.ca.
          example: https://map.utoronto.ca/?id=1809#!m/494481
        buildingName:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
    CourseSearch:
      type: object
      description: Faceted timetable search. Empty arrays mean "do not filter on this facet".
      required:
      - courseCodeAndTitleProps
      - sessions
      - divisions
      properties:
        courseCodeAndTitleProps:
          type: object
          properties:
            courseCode:
              type: string
              example: CSC108H1
            courseTitle:
              type: string
            courseSectionCode:
              type: string
              description: F (fall), S (winter) or Y (full year).
            searchCourseDescription:
              type: boolean
        departmentProps:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
        campuses:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
            example: ST_GEORGE
        sessions:
          type: array
          description: Session codes, for example 20269 for Fall 2026.
          items:
            type: string
        requirementProps:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
        instructor:
          type: string
        courseLevels:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        deliveryModes:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        dayPreferences:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
        timePreferences:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
        divisions:
          type: array
          description: Division codes, for example ARTSC, APSC, ERIN, SCAR.
          items:
            type: string
        creditWeights:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        page:
          type: integer
          minimum: 1
          description: getPageableCourses only.
        pageSize:
          type: integer
          description: getPageableCourses only.
        direction:
          type: string
          enum:
          - asc
          - desc
    DayTime:
      type: object
      description: Non-standard time encoding. `day` is an integer weekday index and `millisofday` is milliseconds since local midnight; there is no timezone, date or ISO-8601 field anywhere in the response.
      properties:
        day:
          type: integer
          minimum: 1
          maximum: 7
        millisofday:
          type: integer
          example: 43200000
    ApplicationStatus:
      type: object
      description: Business-level status returned inside the response body. Observed value 4404 = no results. The University publishes no catalogue of these codes; see errors/ for what has been observed.
      properties:
        code:
          type: integer
          example: 4404
        message:
          type: string
          example: No results found. Please try modifying your search criteria.
    Section:
      type: object
      properties:
        name:
          type: string
          example: TUT0102
        type:
          type: string
          example: Tutorial
        teachMethod:
          type: string
          example: TUT
        sectionNumber:
          type: string
        meetingTimes:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/MeetingTime'
        instructors:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
        currentEnrolment:
          type: integer
        maxEnrolment:
          type: integer
        currentWaitlist:
          type: integer
        subTitle:
          type: string
        cancelInd:
          type: string
          enum:
          - Y
          - N
        waitlistInd:
          type: string
          enum:
          - Y
          - N
        tbaInd:
          type: string
          enum:
          - Y
          - N
        openLimitInd:
          type: string
          enum:
          - Y
          - N
        deliveryModes:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
            properties:
              session:
                type: string
              mode:
                type: string
                example: INPER
        notes:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
            properties:
              name:
                type: string
              type:
                type: string
              content:
                type: string
        enrolmentControls:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
  responses:
    GatewayNotFound:
      description: The gateway did not match a route.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/GatewayError'
          examples:
            live:
              externalValue: ../examples/ttb-gateway-404-response.json