University of Washington

Student Web Service (SWS) Section API

Student Web Service (SWS) Section API — a resource of the UW-IT Student Web Service, split out per resource by the API Evangelist refine step from the institution-published SWS v5 OpenAPI. Specification public; data gated by UW NetID / X.509 client certificate and named ASTRA roles.

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Business capability

Course Scheduling & Timetabling Records BC-4720.30

Operations 5

GET /v5/course/{year},{quarter},{curriculum_abbreviation},{course_number}/{section_id} Get a course section offered in the year/quarter #

GET /v5/section Search for course sections that match the supplied parameters #

GET /v5/section/{year},{quarter} Get course sections offered in the year/quarter #

GET /v5/course/{year},{quarter},{curriculum_abbreviation},{course_number}/{section_id}/status Get the status of a course section #

GET /v5/course/{year},{quarter},{curriculum_abbreviation},{course_number}/status Get the status of a course #

Documentation

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Documentation

https://webservices.washington.edu/sws/

Specifications

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OpenAPI

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-washington/refs/heads/main/openapi/university-of-washington-section-api-openapi.yml

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Student Web Service (SWS) Section API
  description: Student Web Service (SWS) provides a RESTful API to access and update central student data. Subscribe to http://mailman.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/sws-client-app-dev to get notifications about planned outages, support and the announcement of new features.
  contact:
    name: Enterprise Web Services & Events Team
    url: https://itconnect.uw.edu/service/enterprise-web-services-and-events/
    email: sws-support@uw.edu
  version: v5
servers:
- url: /student
tags:


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