École Normale Supérieure de Paris

École Normale Supérieure de Paris (ENS, rue d'Ulm) is a leading French grande école and constituent member of Université PSL (Paris Sciences & Lettres), ranked #86 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. ENS operates 15 departments, 35 research laboratories and a network of libraries. ENS does not publish a first-party developer portal or documented institutional API; its programmatic surface is reached indirectly via national French research and higher-education open infrastructure. Researcher output is deposited in the HAL-ENS open archive, which is harvestable through the national HAL OAI-PMH endpoint and the HAL REST/Search API, and ENS establishment data is exposed through the Ministry of Higher Education (MESR) open-data platform's Opendatasoft Explore API.

École Normale Supérieure de Paris publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network: Catalog API and Dataset API. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Research, and Open Data.

The École Normale Supérieure de Paris catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

École Normale Supérieure de Paris’ developer surface includes authentication and 11 more developer resources.

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42.1/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 37/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessFreeSelf serve⚡ Free to try

4 APIs

EducationHigher EducationUniversityResearchOpen DataOpen AccessFrance

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

Composite quality — 42.1/100 · developing

Contract Quality 18.9 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 2.2 / 20

Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13

Governance 7.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 37/100 · agent ready

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 7 / 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 4

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

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Ens Paris Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

JSON Schema 2

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

Examples 2

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

AGENTIC

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

x-vocabulary

x-vocabulary

x-json-ld-context

x-json-ld-context

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 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

x-blogs

x-blogs

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review

Review

Source (apis.yml)

aid: ens-paris
name: École Normale Supérieure de Paris
description: 'École Normale Supérieure de Paris (ENS, rue d''Ulm) is a leading French grande école and constituent member
  of Université PSL (Paris Sciences & Lettres), ranked #86 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. ENS operates 15 departments,
  35 research laboratories and a network of libraries. ENS does not publish a first-party developer portal or documented institutional
  API; its programmatic surface is reached indirectly via national French research and higher-education open infrastructure.
  Researcher output is deposited in the HAL-ENS open archive, which is harvestable through the national HAL OAI-PMH endpoint
  and the HAL REST/Search API, and ENS establishment data is exposed through the Ministry of Higher Education (MESR) open-data
  platform''s Opendatasoft Explore API.'
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/ens-paris.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ens-paris/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Open Data
- Open Access
- France
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: ens-paris:hal-oai-pmh
  name: HAL-ENS Open Archive (OAI-PMH)
  description: HAL-ENS is the open archive hosting the scientific production of ENS Paris researchers, teacher-researchers
    and doctoral students. It is part of the national HAL platform and is harvestable via the OAI-PMH protocol; ENS content
    can be retrieved by collection sets. No registration is required to use the HAL OAI server.
  humanURL: https://api.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/oai
  baseURL: https://api.archives-ouvertes.fr/oai/hal/
  tags:
  - Open Access
  - Research
  - Institutional Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/oai
- aid: ens-paris:hal-api
  name: HAL Search / REST API
  description: The national HAL open-archive REST and Search API provides programmatic query access to publication metadata,
    including records deposited in the HAL-ENS portal. Results can be filtered by collection, document type and discipline.
  humanURL: https://api.hal.science/docs/
  baseURL: https://api.archives-ouvertes.fr/search/
  tags:
  - Open Access
  - Research
  - Search
  - Publications
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.hal.science/docs/
- aid: ens-paris:ens-paris-catalog-api
  name: École Normale Supérieure de Paris Catalog API
  description: API to enumerate datasets
  humanURL: https://api.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/oai
  baseURL: https://api.archives-ouvertes.fr/oai/hal/
  tags:
  - Catalog
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ens-paris-catalog-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/api/explore/v2.1/console
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/ens-paris-records-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/ens-paris-dataset-schema.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/ens-paris-records-structure.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/ens-paris-dataset-structure.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/ens-paris-query-dataset-records-example.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/ens-paris-query-datasets-example.json
  - type: x-spectral-rules
    url: rules/ens-paris-rules.yml
- aid: ens-paris:ens-paris-dataset-api
  name: École Normale Supérieure de Paris Dataset API
  description: API to work on records
  humanURL: https://api.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/oai
  baseURL: https://api.archives-ouvertes.fr/oai/hal/
  tags:
  - Dataset
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ens-paris-dataset-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/api/explore/v2.1/console
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/ens-paris-records-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/ens-paris-dataset-schema.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/ens-paris-records-structure.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/ens-paris-dataset-structure.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/ens-paris-query-dataset-records-example.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/ens-paris-query-datasets-example.json
  - type: x-spectral-rules
    url: rules/ens-paris-rules.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/ens-paris-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/ens-paris-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/ens-paris-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.ens.psl.eu/en
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/ecole-normale-superieure/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/ens-paris-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/ens-paris-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/ens-paris-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
- type: x-vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/ens-paris-vocabulary.yml
- type: x-json-ld-context
  url: json-ld/ens-paris-context.jsonld
- type: x-blogs
  url: blogs/blogs.json
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com