Cornell University

Cornell University is a private Ivy League and statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York, ranked #16 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer footprint is decentralized rather than served through a single API gateway: the Class Roster team publishes a documented Class Roster API for course and scheduling data, the Cornell University Library operates the eCommons digital repository on DSpace with REST and OAI-PMH access, and Cornell hosts arXiv with its long-standing public arXiv API. The student-led Cornell Open Data Initiative (CODI) additionally exposes campus map, transit, dining, and events datasets, though parts of that platform are archived or marked as likely outdated.

Cornell University publishes 7 APIs on the APIs.io network, including config API, dining API, events API, and 4 more. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Open Data, and Course Catalog.

The Cornell University catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Cornell University’s developer surface includes authentication, GitHub presence, and 9 more developer resources.

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38.2/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessFreeSelf serve⚡ Free to try

10 APIs

EducationHigher EducationUniversityOpen DataCourse CatalogLibraryResearchUnited States

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Composite quality — 38.2/100 · thin

Contract Quality 13.6 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 2.2 / 20

Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13

Governance 7.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 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 10

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

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Cornell Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

JSON Schema 4

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Examples 4

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

AGENTIC

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

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

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: cornell
name: Cornell University
description: 'Cornell University is a private Ivy League and statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New
  York, ranked #16 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer footprint is decentralized rather than served
  through a single API gateway: the Class Roster team publishes a documented Class Roster API for course and scheduling data,
  the Cornell University Library operates the eCommons digital repository on DSpace with REST and OAI-PMH access, and Cornell
  hosts arXiv with its long-standing public arXiv API. The student-led Cornell Open Data Initiative (CODI) additionally exposes
  campus map, transit, dining, and events datasets, though parts of that platform are archived or marked as likely outdated.'
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Free · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/cornell.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cornell/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Open Data
- Course Catalog
- Library
- Research
- United States
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: cornell:class-roster
  name: Cornell Class Roster API
  description: Public read-only API (version 2.0) for Cornell Class Roster data, providing scheduled classes with Course of
    Study details plus configuration lookups for rosters, academic careers, academic groups, class levels, and subjects. All
    methods are GET and return XML or JSON. Usage should be limited to no more than one request per second.
  humanURL: https://classes.cornell.edu/content/FA25/api-details
  baseURL: https://classes.cornell.edu/api/2.0/
  tags:
  - Course Catalog
  - Class Roster
  - Education
  - Scheduling
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://classes.cornell.edu/content/FA25/api-details
- aid: cornell:ecommons
  name: eCommons Digital Repository (DSpace REST and OAI-PMH)
  description: eCommons is Cornell University Library's institutional repository, running on DSpace 7+. It exposes a public
    DSpace REST API for items, communities, collections, and bitstreams, and an OAI-PMH endpoint for metadata harvesting using
    Dublin Core. The library migrated to new DSpace infrastructure in January 2026.
  humanURL: https://guides.library.cornell.edu/ecommons/syndication
  baseURL: https://ecommons.cornell.edu/server/api
  tags:
  - Library
  - Institutional Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - DSpace
  - Research
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://guides.library.cornell.edu/ecommons/syndication
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://ecommons.cornell.edu/oai/request?verb=Identify
- aid: cornell:arxiv
  name: arXiv API
  description: arXiv, hosted and stewarded by Cornell University, provides a long-running public API for programmatic search
    and retrieval of e-print metadata across physics, mathematics, computer science, and other fields. The query interface
    returns Atom-formatted results.
  humanURL: https://info.arxiv.org/help/api/index.html
  baseURL: http://export.arxiv.org/api/
  tags:
  - Research
  - Open Access
  - Preprints
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://info.arxiv.org/help/api/index.html
- aid: cornell:cornell-config-api
  name: Cornell University config API
  description: The config API from Cornell University — 6 operation(s) for config.
  humanURL: https://classes.cornell.edu/content/FA25/api-details
  baseURL: https://classes.cornell.edu/api/2.0/
  tags:
  - config
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cornell-config-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://codi.engineering.cornell.edu/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/cornell-data
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/cornell-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/cornell-context.jsonld
- aid: cornell:cornell-dining-api
  name: Cornell University dining API
  description: The dining API from Cornell University — 2 operation(s) for dining.
  humanURL: https://classes.cornell.edu/content/FA25/api-details
  baseURL: https://classes.cornell.edu/api/2.0/
  tags:
  - dining
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cornell-dining-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://codi.engineering.cornell.edu/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/cornell-data
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/cornell-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/cornell-context.jsonld
- aid: cornell:cornell-events-api
  name: Cornell University events API
  description: The events API from Cornell University — 1 operation(s) for events.
  humanURL: https://classes.cornell.edu/content/FA25/api-details
  baseURL: https://classes.cornell.edu/api/2.0/
  tags:
  - events
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cornell-events-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://codi.engineering.cornell.edu/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/cornell-data
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/cornell-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/cornell-context.jsonld
- aid: cornell:cornell-location-api
  name: Cornell University location API
  description: The location API from Cornell University — 1 operation(s) for location.
  humanURL: https://classes.cornell.edu/content/FA25/api-details
  baseURL: https://classes.cornell.edu/api/2.0/
  tags:
  - location
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cornell-location-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://codi.engineering.cornell.edu/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/cornell-data
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/cornell-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/cornell-context.jsonld
- aid: cornell:cornell-map-items-api
  name: Cornell University map items API
  description: The map items API from Cornell University — 1 operation(s) for map items.
  humanURL: https://classes.cornell.edu/content/FA25/api-details
  baseURL: https://classes.cornell.edu/api/2.0/
  tags:
  - map items
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cornell-map-items-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://codi.engineering.cornell.edu/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/cornell-data
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/cornell-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/cornell-context.jsonld
- aid: cornell:cornell-search-api
  name: Cornell University search API
  description: The search API from Cornell University — 2 operation(s) for search.
  humanURL: https://classes.cornell.edu/content/FA25/api-details
  baseURL: https://classes.cornell.edu/api/2.0/
  tags:
  - search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cornell-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://codi.engineering.cornell.edu/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/cornell-data
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/cornell-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/cornell-context.jsonld
- aid: cornell:cornell-tags-api
  name: Cornell University tags API
  description: The tags API from Cornell University — 1 operation(s) for tags.
  humanURL: https://classes.cornell.edu/content/FA25/api-details
  baseURL: https://classes.cornell.edu/api/2.0/
  tags:
  - tags
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cornell-tags-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://codi.engineering.cornell.edu/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/cornell-data
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/cornell-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/cornell-context.jsonld
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/cornell-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/cornell-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/cornell-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.cornell.edu/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/cornell-data
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/cornell-university/
- type: Authentication
  url: https://shibidp.cit.cornell.edu/idp/shibboleth
- type: Plans
  url: plans/cornell-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/cornell-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/cornell-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com