University of Vienna

PHAIDRA session API (University of Vienna)

Session management

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Operations 3

GET /signin Sign in

GET /signout Sign out

GET /keepalive Extends session expiration time

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: PHAIDRA datastream Session API
  version: '3.0'
  description: Documentation of the PHAIDRA API.
  license:
    name: Apache 2.0
    url: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html
  x-provenance:
    generated: '2026-08-30'
    method: searched
    source: >-
      PHAIDRA API v3.0, published Apache 2.0 by the PHAIDRA project (github.com/phaidra/phaidra-api, public/docs/openapi.json), the platform the University of Vienna authors and hosts. Pristine copy at
      openapi/_original/university-of-vienna-phaidra-api.yaml.
    x-operator: institution
    note: >-
      Split from the source contract by refine-openapis; servers[] re-based to the live production host on 2026-08-30 (see servers[].description).
servers:
- url: https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/api/
  description: University of Vienna PHAIDRA (current production base, re3data r3d100010472, verified 2026-08-30)
- description: RETIRED — returns HTTP 200 with a zero-length body on every path (soft-200), verified 2026-08-30
  url: https://services.phaidra.univie.ac.at/api/
- description: PHAIDRA Sandbox — connection timed out on probe 2026-08-30
  url: https://sandbox.phaidra.org/api/
tags:
- name: session
  description: Session management
paths:
  /signin:
    get:
      summary: Sign in
      description: Authenticate with the api to get an XSFR token back (a cookie with the same name will be set as well). You then have to send this token back in an X-XSRF-TOKEN header for each 
        authenticated call.
      tags:
      - session
      security:
      - basicAuth: []
      responses:
        '200':
          description: a JSON object with an XSRF-Token
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  alerts:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      type: object
                      properties:
                        msg:
                          type: string
                        type:
                          type: string
                  status:
                    type: number
                  XSRF-TOKEN:
                    type: string
        '403':
          description: credentials invalid
  /signout:
    get:
      summary: Sign out
      tags:
      - session
      security:
      - tokenAuth: []
      responses:
        '200':
          description: ''
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  alerts:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      type: object
                      properties:
                        msg:
                          type: string
                        type:
                          type: string
                  sid:
                    type: string
                  status:
                    type: number
        '403':
          description: credentials invalid
  /keepalive:
    get:
      summary: Extends session expiration time
      description: Extends the expiration time of the session token (the session is identified by the token).
      tags:
      - session
      security:
      - tokenAuth: []
      responses:
        '200':
          description: a JSON object with an XSRF-Token and a new expiration time
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  alerts:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      type: object
                      properties:
                        msg:
                          type: string
                        type:
                          type: string
                  sid:
                    type: string
                  expires:
                    type: number
                  status:
                    type: number
        '403':
          description: credentials invalid
components:
  securitySchemes:
    tokenAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: X-XSRF-TOKEN
    basicAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: basic

PHAIDRA session API (University of Vienna)

Operations 3

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