American University of Beirut

The American University of Beirut (AUB) is a private research university in Beirut, Lebanon, founded in 1866, and ranked #250 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. AUB's public, machine-readable developer footprint is centered on its University Libraries: the AUB ScholarWorks institutional repository runs on DSpace 9.1, which exposes a public RESTful API and an OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint. Authentication across AUB web services is provided by a Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider. AUB does not publish a centralized developer portal; most other institutional systems (SIS, service desk) are gated behind SSO and are not publicly documented APIs.

American University of Beirut publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Lebanon, and Middle East.

The American University of Beirut catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

American University of Beirut’s developer surface includes GitHub presence, authentication, and 7 more developer resources.

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22.0/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 12/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessFree

3 APIs

EducationHigher EducationUniversityLebanonMiddle EastResearchLibrariesOpen Access

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Composite quality — 22.0/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 3.2 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 2.2 / 20

Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 12/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 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 3

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

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Aub Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

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

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review

Review

Source (apis.yml)

aid: aub
name: American University of Beirut
description: 'The American University of Beirut (AUB) is a private research university in Beirut, Lebanon, founded in 1866,
  and ranked #250 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. AUB''s public, machine-readable developer footprint is centered
  on its University Libraries: the AUB ScholarWorks institutional repository runs on DSpace 9.1, which exposes a public RESTful
  API and an OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint. Authentication across AUB web services is provided by a Shibboleth
  SAML 2.0 identity provider. AUB does not publish a centralized developer portal; most other institutional systems (SIS,
  service desk) are gated behind SSO and are not publicly documented 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/aub.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/aub/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Lebanon
- Middle East
- Research
- Libraries
- Open Access
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: aub:scholarworks-rest
  name: AUB ScholarWorks DSpace REST API
  description: Public RESTful (HAL) API for the AUB ScholarWorks institutional repository, running on DSpace 9.1. Exposes
    communities, collections, items, bitstreams, discovery/search, and metadata over HTTP/JSON. The service root self-describes
    as repository "AUB ScholarWorks".
  humanURL: https://scholarworks.aub.edu.lb/
  baseURL: https://scholarworks.aub.edu.lb/server/api
  tags:
  - Repository
  - DSpace
  - Research
  - Open Access
  - Libraries
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://aub.edu.lb.libguides.com/AUB-Scholarworks
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC9x/REST+API
- aid: aub:scholarworks-oai
  name: AUB ScholarWorks OAI-PMH
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for the AUB ScholarWorks institutional repository (DSpace 9.1). Supports
    the standard OAI verbs (Identify, ListRecords, ListSets, GetRecord, etc.) and exposes scholarly output of the AUB community
    for harvesting by aggregators.
  humanURL: https://scholarworks.aub.edu.lb/
  baseURL: https://scholarworks.aub.edu.lb/server/oai/request
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata
  - Harvesting
  - Repository
  - Open Access
  - Libraries
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://aub.edu.lb.libguides.com/AUB-Scholarworks
- aid: aub:shibboleth-idp
  name: AUB Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0)
  description: AUB's institutional single sign-on is provided by a Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider. The SAML metadata
    is published at the entity endpoint and is used to federate access to AUB web services. This is an authentication/identity
    standard endpoint rather than a public data API.
  humanURL: https://servicedesk.aub.edu.lb/TDClient/Requests/ServiceDet?ID=30424
  baseURL: https://idp.aub.edu.lb/idp/shibboleth
  tags:
  - Identity
  - Authentication
  - SAML
  - Shibboleth
  - SSO
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://servicedesk.aub.edu.lb/TDClient/Requests/ServiceDet?ID=30424
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/aub-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.aub.edu.lb/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/AUB-CMPS
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/american-university-of-beirut
- type: Authentication
  url: https://idp.aub.edu.lb/idp/shibboleth
- type: Plans
  url: plans/aub-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/aub-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/aub-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

American University of Beirut

Kin Score

APIs 3

AUB ScholarWorks DSpace REST API

AUB ScholarWorks OAI-PMH

AUB Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0)

Pricing Plans 1

Aub Plans Pricing

Rate Limits 1

Aub Rate Limits

FinOps 1

Aub Finops

Semantic Vocabularies 1

Aub Context

Security Posture 1

Aub Domain Security

Resources