# Cornell University

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/cornell/  
**Website:** https://www.cornell.edu/  
**APIs profiled:** 6

Cornell University is a private Ivy League and statutory land-grant research university in Ithaca, New York. It operates no central developer portal, no API gateway and no published API program, and this profile records that plainly. What it does operate, directly and on its own hosts, is a small set of real machine-readable surfaces: the Class Roster API on classes.cornell.edu (public, read-only, version 2.0, maintained behind the scenes by the Office of the University Registrar), the Cornell University Library's self-hosted Blacklight catalog and CUGIR geospatial repository, both of which answer JSON on every route, its own Shibboleth identity provider published as SAML 2.0 metadata and registered with InCommon/eduGAIN, and — through the Cornell Lab of Ornithology — the token-gated eBird API 2.0. Everything else that looks like a Cornell API belongs to somebody else: the events calendar at events.cornell.edu is a Localist tenancy, eCommons is a 4Science-managed DSpace instance, and arXiv, hosted at Cornell for twenty-five years, spun out as an independent nonprofit on 2026-07-01 and is no longer a Cornell surface at all. The Cornell Open Data Initiative specs that once padded this profile described a dining API, a campus-map API and a Cornell Days API that are all dead as of 2026-08-19.

## Kin Score — 37.1 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+2.9 from 34.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 22.7 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 33.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 50.0 |
| Access Clarity | 50.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 46.3 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 46.4 (agent-native)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Free · No registration for the institution-operated public APIs — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (6)

- **Cornell Class Roster API** — Public, read-only API (version 2.0) for Cornell Class Roster data: scheduled classes with Course of Study detail, plus configuration lookups for rosters, academic careers, acade...
- **Cornell University Library Catalog Search API** — JSON search over Cornell University Library's catalog. The catalog is the library's own Blacklight deployment; appending .json to any catalog route returns a Solr-backed JSON en...
- **CUGIR — Cornell University Geospatial Information Repository API** — JSON:API search and record retrieval for CUGIR, Cornell University Library's geospatial data and historical map repository, running GeoBlacklight on the library's own infrastruc...
- **eBird API 2.0** — Global bird-observation API run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, a unit of Cornell University. Free but token-gated: requests without a valid X-eBirdApiToken return 403. Refer...
- **eCommons Institutional Repository (DSpace REST + OAI-PMH) — tenant** — eCommons is Cornell University Library's institutional repository: Cornell's content, Cornell's DOIs, Cornell's host. The interface is not Cornell's engineering. It runs DSpace ...
- **Cornell Events Calendar API (Localist) — tenant** — The Cornell events calendar at events.cornell.edu answers a live JSON API at /api/2/events, and the data is Cornell's. The platform is Localist (Concept3D): the response headers...

## Agentic access (1)

- **Cornell Agentic Access** — 11 operations

## Security (2)

- **Cornell Authentication** — none/apiKey/saml · 6 schemes
- **Cornell Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Cornell Plans Pricing**

## Tags

University, Higher Education, Education, Ivy League, United States, Course Catalog, Library, Research Data, Geospatial, Identity Federation

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/cornell/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.