EPFL

aid: epfl
name: EPFL
description: 'EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) is a public research university in Lausanne, Switzerland, ranked
  #19 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. EPFL exposes several public, documented REST APIs across its digital campus,
  including the Actu news API and the Memento events API (both with self-service interactive docs), and its Infoscience institutional
  repository runs on DSpace 7 with a public REST API and OAI-PMH endpoint. Additional EPFL code is published openly across
  official GitHub organizations such as EPFL-SI (IT systems and infrastructure) and EPFL-ENAC.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/epfl/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Open Data
- Switzerland
- Europe
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: epfl:actu
  name: EPFL Actu News API
  description: Public REST API serving EPFL news ("Actu") content, with resources for news, projects, channels, faculties,
    categories, themes and publics. Supports pagination, search and language preferences. Default access is unauthenticated;
    optional Token, Basic and Session authentication exist.
  humanURL: https://actu.epfl.ch/api-docs/
  baseURL: https://actu.epfl.ch/api/v1/
  tags:
  - News
  - Content
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://actu.epfl.ch/api-docs/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/epfl-actu.yaml
- aid: epfl:memento
  name: EPFL Memento Events API
  description: Public REST API serving EPFL events ("Memento"), with resources for events, mementos, categories, domains,
    faculties, registrations, spoken languages and vulgarizations. The Events endpoint supports extensive filtering by date,
    time, speaker, location and language, plus pagination, search and ordering. Default access is unauthenticated.
  humanURL: https://memento.epfl.ch/api/docs/
  baseURL: https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/
  tags:
  - Events
  - Calendar
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://memento.epfl.ch/api/docs/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/epfl-memento.yaml
- aid: epfl:infoscience
  name: EPFL Infoscience Repository API
  description: Infoscience is EPFL's institutional repository, running on DSpace 7.6.2. It exposes a public HATEOAS/HAL REST
    API (items, collections, communities, bitstreams, discovery/search and more) and an OAI-PMH endpoint for metadata harvesting
    of EPFL publications and research output.
  humanURL: https://infoscience.epfl.ch/
  baseURL: https://infoscience.epfl.ch/server/api
  tags:
  - Repository
  - Research
  - DSpace
  - OAI-PMH
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://infoscience.epfl.ch/server/api
  - type: OAI-PMH
    url: https://infoscience.epfl.ch/oai/request?verb=Identify
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.epfl.ch
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/epfl-si
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/epfl/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/epfl-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/epfl-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/epfl-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com