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Australian National University

The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university in Canberra, ranked #28 in the QS World University Rankings 2025 and consistently among Australia's leading institutions. ANU's public developer/API footprint is modest and research-driven rather than centered on a single institutional developer portal. The most prominent public API is QRNG@ANU (ANU Quantum Numbers), which serves live quantum random numbers over HTTP. ANU also exposes its Open Research institutional repository metadata via a standard OAI-PMH endpoint. Most administrative systems (timetabling, programs and courses, student services) are gated or community-scraped rather than offered as documented public APIs.

Australian National University publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Research, and Australia.

The Australian National University catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

Australian National University’s developer surface includes GitHub presence and 7 more developer resources.

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 19.4/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 3.2 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.9 / 10
Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

QRNG@ANU Quantum Random Numbers API

Public API serving live quantum random numbers generated by ANU's quantum optics research group. The legacy JSON endpoint returns arrays of uint8, uint16, or hex16 values (array...

ANU Open Research OAI-PMH

OAI-PMH (Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) v2.0 endpoint for ANU's Open Research institutional repository (DSpace), exposing metadata for journal articles, theses, books, confer...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Anu Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Anu Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Anu Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Anu Context

6 classes · 4 properties

JSON-LD

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Anu Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub
GitHub

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits
RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans
Plans
 FinOps
FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review
Review

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: anu
name: Australian National University
description: 'The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university in Canberra, ranked #28 in the QS World
  University Rankings 2025 and consistently among Australia''s leading institutions. ANU''s public developer/API footprint
  is modest and research-driven rather than centered on a single institutional developer portal. The most prominent public
  API is QRNG@ANU (ANU Quantum Numbers), which serves live quantum random numbers over HTTP. ANU also exposes its Open Research
  institutional repository metadata via a standard OAI-PMH endpoint. Most administrative systems (timetabling, programs and
  courses, student services) are gated or community-scraped rather than offered as documented public APIs.'
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/anu.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/anu/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Australia
- Open Data
- Quantum
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: anu:qrng
  name: QRNG@ANU Quantum Random Numbers API
  description: Public API serving live quantum random numbers generated by ANU's quantum optics research group. The legacy
    JSON endpoint returns arrays of uint8, uint16, or hex16 values (array length 1-1024) and requires no signup. A newer AWS-hosted
    service at quantumnumbers.anu.edu.au offers the same data with a free registered API key.
  humanURL: https://qrng.anu.edu.au/contact/api-documentation/
  baseURL: https://qrng.anu.edu.au/API/jsonI.php
  tags:
  - Quantum
  - Random Numbers
  - Research
  - JSON
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://qrng.anu.edu.au/contact/api-documentation/
  - type: Signup
    url: https://quantumnumbers.anu.edu.au/
- aid: anu:openresearch-oai
  name: ANU Open Research OAI-PMH
  description: OAI-PMH (Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) v2.0 endpoint for ANU's Open Research institutional repository (DSpace),
    exposing metadata for journal articles, theses, books, conference papers, and other open access scholarly outputs for
    harvesting and discovery.
  humanURL: https://openresearch.anu.edu.au/open-research-collections
  baseURL: https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/server/oai/request
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  - Institutional Repository
  - Open Access
  - Research
  - DSpace
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://openresearch.anu.edu.au/open-research-collections
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/anu-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.anu.edu.au/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/AustralianNationalUniversity
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/the-australian-national-university/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/anu-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/anu-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/anu-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com