University of Warwick Administration API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Tabula Administration API
  version: v1
  summary: University of Warwick's teaching and learning administration API.
  description: 'Tabula is the University of Warwick''s system for the administration of teaching and learning. It is built and operated by the University''s own Information and Digital Group (IDG) / IT Services software engineering team — the iCal responses it emits carry `PRODID:-//Tabula//University of Warwick IT Services//EN`, and the source repositories sit under the institution''s own GitHub organisation. This is an institution-operated contract, not a vendor platform running under Warwick''s name.


    The API is resource-oriented, returns JSON in all responses including errors, and wraps every payload in a `success`/`status` envelope. A small number of calendar endpoints (term dates, term weeks, holiday dates) are fully public and require no credentials. Everything else is protected by Warwick Web Sign-on and requires either HTTP Basic Auth with an ITS External User account or an OAuth 1.0a token.


    Content negotiation: the calendar endpoints return JSON by default and iCalendar when the request carries `Accept: text/calendar` or the path ends in `.ics`.'
  termsOfService: https://warwick.ac.uk/terms/
  contact:
    name: University of Warwick ITS Web Team
    url: https://warwick.ac.uk/services/idg/services-support/web/tabula/api/
    email: webteam@warwick.ac.uk
  license:
    name: Warwick website terms of use
    url: https://warwick.ac.uk/terms/
servers:
- url: https://tabula.warwick.ac.uk/api/v1
  description: Production
- url: https://tabula-sandbox.warwick.ac.uk/api/v1
  description: Sandbox. Contains no staff data and only auto-generated fake student data. Access is granted on request to tabula@warwick.ac.uk.
security:
- {}
tags:
- name: Administration
  description: Departments and modules.
paths:
  /department:
    get:
      tags:
      - Administration
      operationId: listDepartments
      summary: List all departments
      description: Lists all departments in Tabula. Warwick documents the information itself as public but states the API "must be called by an authenticated user". Probed unauthenticated on 2026-08-19 and returned the documented 401 envelope.
      security:
      - basicAuth: []
      - oauth1: []
      responses:
        '200':
          description: All departments. `subDepartments` is not returned by this operation.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/DepartmentsResponse'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
  /department/{departmentCode}:
    get:
      tags:
      - Administration
      operationId: retrieveDepartment
      summary: Retrieve a department
      security:
      - basicAuth: []
      - oauth1: []
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/DepartmentCode'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The department.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/DepartmentResponse'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
  /department/{departmentCode}/modules:
    get:
      tags:
      - Administration
      operationId: listDepartmentModules
      summary: List a department's modules
      security:
      - basicAuth: []
      - oauth1: []
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/DepartmentCode'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The department's modules.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ModulesResponse'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
  /module:
    get:
      tags:
      - Administration
      operationId: listModules
      summary: List all modules
      security:
      - basicAuth: []
      - oauth1: []
      responses:
        '200':
          description: All modules in the system.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ModulesResponse'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
components:
  schemas:
    ModulesResponse:
      allOf:
      - $ref: '#/components/schemas/Envelope'
      - type: object
        required:
        - modules
        properties:
          modules:
            type: array
            items:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/Module'
    Module:
      type: object
      properties:
        code:
          type: string
          examples:
          - cs118
        name:
          type: string
        adminDepartment:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Department'
    ErrorResponse:
      allOf:
      - $ref: '#/components/schemas/Envelope'
      - type: object
        required:
        - errors
        properties:
          success:
            const: false
          errors:
            type: array
            items:
              type: object
              required:
              - message
              properties:
                message:
                  type: string
    DepartmentsResponse:
      allOf:
      - $ref: '#/components/schemas/Envelope'
      - type: object
        required:
        - departments
        properties:
          departments:
            type: array
            items:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/Department'
    DepartmentResponse:
      allOf:
      - $ref: '#/components/schemas/Envelope'
      - type: object
        required:
        - department
        properties:
          department:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Department'
    Department:
      type: object
      description: Shape summarised from Warwick's "The Department object" reference page. Field-level detail beyond code/name/subDepartments is behind the authenticated surface and is deliberately not asserted here.
      properties:
        code:
          type: string
          examples:
          - cs
        name:
          type: string
          examples:
          - Computer Science
        subDepartments:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Department'
    Envelope:
      type: object
      description: Every Tabula response carries this envelope.
      required:
      - success
      - status
      properties:
        success:
          type: boolean
        status:
          type: string
  parameters:
    DepartmentCode:
      name: departmentCode
      in: path
      required: true
      description: The lowercase department code, e.g. `cs`.
      schema:
        type: string
      example: cs
  responses:
    Unauthorized:
      description: HTTP authentication failed or was not supplied.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
          example:
            success: false
            status: unauthorized
            errors:
            - message: API requests must be authenticated with HTTP Basic Auth or OAuth
    NotFound:
      description: The resource does not exist. Warwick documents that this can also occur when the request Content-Type is not application/json.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
          example:
            success: false
            status: not_found
            errors:
            - message: We don't know anything about this page
  securitySchemes:
    basicAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: basic
      description: HTTP Basic authentication over HTTPS using a Warwick Web Sign-on ITS user code and password. Warwick documents that requests SHOULD use a dedicated External User account provisioned for API access.
    oauth1:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: Authorization
      description: OAuth 1.0a. Warwick supports the RSA-SHA1 and HMAC-SHA1 signature algorithms and requires a Warwick-specific `scope` parameter naming the service being accessed. Request token, authorise and access token endpoints are on websignon.warwick.ac.uk. OpenAPI has no native OAuth 1.0a security scheme type, so this is expressed as the Authorization header it actually travels in.
externalDocs:
  description: Tabula API documentation
  url: https://warwick.ac.uk/services/idg/services-support/web/tabula/api/