# University of York Shibboleth Identity Provider

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-york/shibboleth-idp/  
**Provider:** University of York — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-york/  
**Base URL:** https://shib.york.ac.uk/idp  
**Documentation:** https://www.york.ac.uk/it-services/

University of York Shibboleth Identity Provider is one of 8 APIs that [University of York](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-york/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include 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 identity provider at shib.york.ac.uk, running Shibboleth. It is the authentication surface through which every bought platform — Pure, Primo, the VLE — is actually reached, and it is institution-operated by definition. Confirmed by behaviour: the SAML2 HTTP-Redirect SSO profile endpoint answers, and the IdP status handler is present but access-restricted. Its SAML metadata is NOT published from a University host; it is distributed through the UK Access Management Federation, so no machine-readable artifact could be retrieved and none has been invented. Recorded as a surface, not as a contract.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-york/refs/heads/main/conformance/university-of-york-conformance.yml
- **Documentation** — https://www.york.ac.uk/it-services/

## Other University of York APIs (7)

- [University of York Digital Collections Search API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-york/digital-collections-search/)
- [University of York Digital Collections IIIF APIs](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-york/digital-collections-iiif/)
- [University of York Research Portal OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-york/research-portal-oai-pmh/)
- [Elsevier Pure Web Services (University of York tenant)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-york/pure-web-services/)
- [YorSearch Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo / Alma)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-york/yorsearch-primo/)
- [White Rose Research Online OAI-PMH (consortium)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-york/wrro-oai/)
- [White Rose eTheses Online OAI-PMH (consortium)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-york/wreo-oai/)

## Tags

Identity Federation, Shibboleth, SAML, Single Sign-On

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