Boston University

Boston University is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, chartered in 1869, ranked #88 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. It serves over 34,000 students across three campuses with 300+ programs of study. Its public developer/API footprint is modest and largely gated: the most clearly public, machine-readable interface is the OpenBU institutional repository (DSpace) OAI-PMH endpoint. Boston University also references an internal API portal (webapi.bu.edu) and offers gated LLM API key access via Azure OpenAI and Amazon Bedrock through IS&T, but those are not publicly reachable or documented without authorization.

Boston University publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Research, and Library.

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

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

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18.7/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

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2 APIs

EducationHigher EducationUniversityResearchLibraryOpen DataUnited States

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Composite quality — 18.7/100 · 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 5.9 / 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.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Boston 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 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

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review

Review

Source (apis.yml)

aid: boston
name: Boston University
description: 'Boston University is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, chartered in 1869, ranked #88 in
  the QS World University Rankings 2025. It serves over 34,000 students across three campuses with 300+ programs of study.
  Its public developer/API footprint is modest and largely gated: the most clearly public, machine-readable interface is the
  OpenBU institutional repository (DSpace) OAI-PMH endpoint. Boston University also references an internal API portal (webapi.bu.edu)
  and offers gated LLM API key access via Azure OpenAI and Amazon Bedrock through IS&T, but those are not publicly reachable
  or documented without authorization.'
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/boston.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/boston/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Library
- Open Data
- United States
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: boston:openbu-oai
  name: OpenBU Repository OAI-PMH API
  description: OpenBU is Boston University Libraries' open-access institutional repository, built on DSpace. It exposes a
    publicly accessible OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint for harvesting metadata (theses, dissertations, journal articles, reports and
    more). The Identify verb resolves live with repository name "OpenBU" and supports standard OAI-PMH verbs (Identify, ListRecords,
    ListSets, GetRecord, ListMetadataFormats, ListIdentifiers).
  humanURL: https://open.bu.edu/
  baseURL: https://open.bu.edu/server/oai/request
  tags:
  - Library
  - Open Data
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata
  - Research
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://open.bu.edu/
- aid: boston:ai-api-access
  name: AI API Access (Azure OpenAI / Amazon Bedrock)
  description: Boston University IS&T provides gated access to Large Language Model API keys for academic and research use,
    brokering frontier models via Microsoft Azure OpenAI and Amazon Bedrock (including Anthropic models). Access is restricted
    to faculty, researchers, staff and departments, requires financial-administrator approval and an AI API Key Request Form,
    and IS&T supplies provisioning details and documentation only after approval. No public base URL or open documentation
    is available.
  humanURL: https://www.bu.edu/tech/services/cccs/collaboration/conversational-ai/ai-api-access/
  tags:
  - AI
  - LLM
  - Gated
  - Azure OpenAI
  - Amazon Bedrock
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.bu.edu/tech/services/cccs/collaboration/conversational-ai/ai-api-access/
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/boston-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.bu.edu/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/bu-ist
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/boston-university/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/boston-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/boston-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/boston-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Boston University

Kin Score

APIs 2

OpenBU Repository OAI-PMH API

AI API Access (Azure OpenAI / Amazon Bedrock)

Pricing Plans 1

Boston Plans Pricing

Rate Limits 1

Boston Rate Limits

FinOps 1

Boston Finops

Semantic Vocabularies 1

Boston Context

Security Posture 1

Boston Domain Security

Resources