EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) is a Swiss federal institute of technology in Lausanne and one of the two federal technical universities in the ETH Domain. Measured on what it actually operates rather than what runs under its name, EPFL is unusual among research universities: it runs FOUR public, unauthenticated APIs on its own registrable domain. The Actu news API (actu.epfl.ch) and the Memento events API (memento.epfl.ch) are Django REST Framework services with live interactive CoreAPI documentation; Infoscience (infoscience.epfl.ch) is EPFL's self-hosted DSpace-CRIS repository serving a HAL/HATEOAS REST API and a working OAI-PMH provider; and GETprime (getprime.epfl.ch), from the Gene Expression Core Facility, answers primer-design queries over HTTP. EPFL publishes no OpenAPI for any of them and operates no developer portal, no API gateway (api.epfl.ch resolves only to RFC 1918 space), no plans, no rate-limit documentation and no deprecation policy — every OpenAPI in this repo is derived by API Evangelist and marked as such. Its library discovery runs on Ex Libris Primo/Alma through the SLSP consortium and its identity provider endpoint is hosted by SWITCH edu-ID; both are recorded here as tenant relationships, not as EPFL engineering. There is no public course-catalog or timetable API.
EPFL publishes 9 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Actu News API, Memento Events API, Primers API, and 6 more. Tagged areas include University, Higher Education, Education, Technical University, and Research.
The EPFL catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.
EPFL’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, support, engineering blog, GitHub presence, authentication, and 27 more developer resources.
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MCP Server+12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
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Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.
EPFL's public events and agenda API, serving the Memento calendar — events, mementos, registrations, domains, categories, faculties, spoken languages and vulgarizations. Django ...
Infoscience is EPFL's institutional repository and CRIS, self-hosted on EPFL infrastructure and running DSpace-CRIS. It exposes a HAL/HATEOAS REST API rooted at /server/api with...
EPFL Graph Search is an EPFL-built knowledge-graph search over EPFL concepts, people, units and publications. It has a live HTTP API router — every /api/* path returns a JSON {"...
EPFL's institutional URL shortener publishes an API page describing token-authenticated link creation. Access is gated to EPFL community members holding an institutional token, ...
EPFL is a registered member of SWITCHaai, the Swiss academic identity federation, which is exported to eduGAIN. Seventeen entityIDs containing "epfl" appear in the federation ag...
EPFL's SAML identity provider is delivered by SWITCH edu-ID as a hosted, EPFL-branded IdP. The relationship is a real institutional fact — EPFL authenticates its community throu...
EPFL's library discovery and resolution run on Ex Libris Primo VE with Alma behind it, delivered through SLSP (Swiss Library Service Platform). EPFL's holdings, EPFL's patrons, ...
aid: epfl
name: EPFL
x-type: university
x-category: Technical University
description: 'EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) is a Swiss federal institute of technology in Lausanne and one
of the two federal technical universities in the ETH Domain. Measured on what it actually operates rather than what runs
under its name, EPFL is unusual among research universities: it runs FOUR public, unauthenticated APIs on its own registrable
domain. The Actu news API (actu.epfl.ch) and the Memento events API (memento.epfl.ch) are Django REST Framework services
with live interactive CoreAPI documentation; Infoscience (infoscience.epfl.ch) is EPFL''s self-hosted DSpace-CRIS repository
serving a HAL/HATEOAS REST API and a working OAI-PMH provider; and GETprime (getprime.epfl.ch), from the Gene Expression
Core Facility, answers primer-design queries over HTTP. EPFL publishes no OpenAPI for any of them and operates no developer
portal, no API gateway (api.epfl.ch resolves only to RFC 1918 space), no plans, no rate-limit documentation and no deprecation
policy — every OpenAPI in this repo is derived by API Evangelist and marked as such. Its library discovery runs on Ex Libris
Primo/Alma through the SLSP consortium and its identity provider endpoint is hosted by SWITCH edu-ID; both are recorded
here as tenant relationships, not as EPFL engineering. There is no public course-catalog or timetable API.'
type: Index
x-coverage:
state: covered
reason: institution_operated_surfaces_verified
detail: 'Every surface in this profile was probed live on 2026-08-19 and its operator settled before it was saved. Four
institution-operated APIs answer on epfl.ch hosts; two vendor platforms (Ex Libris via SLSP, SWITCH edu-ID) are recorded
as tenant relationships rather than credited as EPFL contracts. Three surface classes a university might be expected to
run were hunted and are genuinely absent: there is no public course catalog or timetable API (edu.epfl.ch/api 404, isa.epfl.ch
does not resolve, sco.epfl.ch does not resolve), no open-data portal (data.epfl.ch redirects to a laboratory page on www.epfl.ch),
and no public API gateway (api.epfl.ch resolves to 10.98.42.206, an internal address). Two negative findings are worth
recording as findings rather than gaps: search.epfl.ch soft-200s — /api/cse, /api/ldap, /api/unit and /api/graphsearch/v2
are documented in the public epfl-si/search-api repository but the live host 302s every one of them to the human search
page, so the API is real code with no public endpoint; and graphsearch.epfl.ch sits behind a Cloudflare bot challenge
that returns 403 to a browser User-Agent while its /api router answers JSON 404s, which grades LIVE, not dead.'
evidence:
- url: https://actu.epfl.ch/api/v1/
status: 200
- url: https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/
status: 200
- url: https://infoscience.epfl.ch/server/api
status: 200
- url: https://infoscience.epfl.ch/server/oai/openaire4?verb=Identify
status: 200
- url: https://infoscience.epfl.ch/oai/request?verb=Identify
status: 404
- url: https://getprime.epfl.ch/primers/search
status: 200
- url: https://graphsearch.epfl.ch/api/v1
status: 404
- url: https://graphsearch.epfl.ch/
status: 403
- url: https://search.epfl.ch/api/ldap?q=INN
status: 302
- url: https://edu.epfl.ch/api/
status: 404
- url: https://www.epfl.ch/llms.txt
status: 404
- url: https://metadata.aai.switch.ch/metadata.switchaai.xml
status: 200
- url: https://epfl.swisscovery.ch/
status: 200
generated: '2026-08-19'
method: probed
deliveryModel:
model: saas
open_source: false
commercial: true
callable_host: true
label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
confidence: high
source:
- openapi
- pricing
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: derived
accessModel:
pricing: free
onboarding: none
trial: false
try_now: true
public: true
label: Free · No signup required
confidence: high
source:
- plans
- authentication
- conformance
generated: '2026-08-19'
method: probed
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/epfl.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/epfl/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-api-posture: no-product-api
x-api-posture-basis: observed
tags:
- University
- Higher Education
- Education
- Technical University
- Research
- Research Repository
- Open Access
- Identity Federation
- News
- Event
- Switzerland
- Europe
tags_raw:
- University
- Higher Education
- Education
- Technical University
- Research
- Research Repository
- Open Access
- Identity Federation
- News
- Events
- Switzerland
- Europe
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: epfl:actu-news-api
name: EPFL Actu News API
x-operator: institution
x-operator-basis: actu.epfl.ch is under EPFL's own registrable domain and is run by EPFL-SI. The application, the data and
the endpoint are all EPFL's.
description: 'EPFL''s public news API, serving the Actu newsroom — news, projects, channels, faculties, categories, themes
and publics. Django REST Framework, read-only (Allow: GET, HEAD, OPTIONS), unauthenticated by default, with optional Token
and Basic schemes declared. Documented as an interactive CoreAPI schema, not as OpenAPI; ?format=openapi returns 404.
The OpenAPIs below are derived by API Evangelist from that CoreAPI schema plus live probes on 2026-08-19.'
humanURL: https://actu.epfl.ch/
baseURL: https://actu.epfl.ch/api/v1/
tags:
- News
- Content
- University
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://actu.epfl.ch/api-docs/
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/_original/epfl-actu.yaml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/epfl-news-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/epfl-channels-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/epfl-projects-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/epfl-themes-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/epfl-publics-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/epfl-categories-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/epfl-faculties-api-openapi.yml
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/epfl-news-schema.json
- type: Example
url: examples/epfl-listNews-example.json
- aid: epfl:memento-events-api
name: EPFL Memento Events API
x-operator: institution
x-operator-basis: memento.epfl.ch is under EPFL's own registrable domain and is run by EPFL-SI.
description: 'EPFL''s public events and agenda API, serving the Memento calendar — events, mementos, registrations, domains,
categories, faculties, spoken languages and vulgarizations. Django REST Framework, read-only and unauthenticated by default,
documented as an interactive CoreAPI schema. Note that Memento and Actu share a resource vocabulary but not a resource
set: only /categories/ and /faculties/ answer on both hosts. The repo previously pointed every derived contract at actu.epfl.ch,
including six resources actu.epfl.ch 404s on; that was corrected on 2026-08-19 by probing all thirteen collections against
both hosts.'
humanURL: https://memento.epfl.ch/
baseURL: https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/
tags:
- Event
- Calendar
- University
tags_raw:
- Events
- Calendar
- University
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://memento.epfl.ch/api/docs/
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/_original/epfl-memento.yaml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/epfl-events-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/epfl-mementos-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/epfl-registrations-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/epfl-domains-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/epfl-spoken-languages-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/epfl-vulgarizations-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/epfl-categories-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/epfl-faculties-api-openapi.yml
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/epfl-event-schema.json
- type: Example
url: examples/epfl-listEvents-example.json
- aid: epfl:infoscience
name: EPFL Infoscience Institutional Repository
x-operator: institution
x-operator-basis: infoscience.epfl.ch is EPFL's own host, not an account on a vendor's platform. The software is DSpace-CRIS
— the OAI provider identifies itself as "DSpace-CRIS OAI-PMH Data Provider" — so the CONTRACT SHAPE is DSpace's, and no
DSpace spec is saved under EPFL's slug. The endpoint, the identifiers (oai:infoscience.epfl.ch:20.500.14299/…) and the
adminEmail (infoscienceAdmin@epfl.ch) are EPFL's.
description: Infoscience is EPFL's institutional repository and CRIS, self-hosted on EPFL infrastructure and running DSpace-CRIS.
It exposes a HAL/HATEOAS REST API rooted at /server/api with 40+ link relations, and an OAI-PMH 2.0 provider with a single
context, openaire4, declaring compliance with the OpenAIRE Guidelines for Literature Repositories v4.0. Records carry
DataCite Kernel 4 metadata and ORCID name identifiers. Harvesting is supported from earliestDatestamp 2004-08-31 at second
granularity. Anonymous reads of /server/api/core/items return 401, so OAI-PMH is the usable public harvesting surface.
humanURL: https://infoscience.epfl.ch/
baseURL: https://infoscience.epfl.ch/server/api
tags:
- Research Repository
- Open Access
- OAI-PMH
- DSpace
- DataCite
- ORCID
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://infoscience.epfl.ch/server/api
- type: OAI-PMH
url: https://infoscience.epfl.ch/server/oai/openaire4?verb=Identify
- type: Support
url: https://www.epfl.ch/campus/library/services-researchers/infoscience-en/
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/epfl-conformance.yml
- aid: epfl:graphsearch
name: EPFL Graph Search
x-operator: institution
x-operator-basis: graphsearch.epfl.ch is under EPFL's own registrable domain.
description: EPFL Graph Search is an EPFL-built knowledge-graph search over EPFL concepts, people, units and publications.
It has a live HTTP API router — every /api/* path returns a JSON {"message":"Route not found ..."} rather than an HTML
page — but EPFL publishes no route documentation, no schema and no OpenAPI, and the site itself sits behind a Cloudflare
bot challenge that returns 403 to a browser User-Agent. Recorded as a real institution-operated surface with NO usable
public contract; no OpenAPI is derived for it because there is nothing verifiable to derive one from.
humanURL: https://graphsearch.epfl.ch/
tags:
- Search
- Knowledge Graph
- Research
properties:
- type: Website
url: https://graphsearch.epfl.ch/
- aid: epfl:go-url-shortener
name: EPFL go.epfl.ch URL Shortener API
x-operator: institution
x-operator-basis: go.epfl.ch is under EPFL's own registrable domain and is run by EPFL-SI.
description: EPFL's institutional URL shortener publishes an API page describing token-authenticated link creation. Access
is gated to EPFL community members holding an institutional token, so it is a real institution-operated surface that is
not consumable by an outside developer. Recorded with its gate stated rather than counted as an open API.
humanURL: https://go.epfl.ch/api
tags:
- URL Shorteners
- Campus
- Gated
tags_raw:
- URL Shortener
- Campus
- Gated
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://go.epfl.ch/api
- aid: epfl:identity-federation
name: EPFL SAML Identity Federation Entities
x-operator: institution
x-operator-basis: The entityIDs, the Shibboleth SP deployments and the attribute-release requests are EPFL's own, published
under epfl.ch hostnames. The aggregate they are published IN is operated by SWITCH, which is why the registry URL below
is a property and not this entry's baseURL.
description: EPFL is a registered member of SWITCHaai, the Swiss academic identity federation, which is exported to eduGAIN.
Seventeen entityIDs containing "epfl" appear in the federation aggregate. EPFL's identity provider entity, https://idp.epfl.ch/idp/shibboleth,
carries the REFEDS Research & Scholarship entity category and REFEDS Sirtfi. EPFL-operated Shibboleth service providers
are registered at https://companion.epfl.ch/shibboleth (9 requested attributes; host resolves and returns 200) and https://tequila.epfl.ch/shibboleth
(16 requested attributes, including swissEduPersonMatriculationNumber and swissEduPersonStudyLevel) — but note that tequila.epfl.ch
NO LONGER RESOLVES in public DNS as of 2026-08-19, so that registration is stale metadata rather than a reachable service.
This is machine-readable institutional infrastructure that is almost never catalogued, and the entities are genuinely
EPFL's.
humanURL: https://companion.epfl.ch/
tags:
- Identity Federation
- SAML
- Shibboleth
- eduGAIN
properties:
- type: IdentityFederation
url: https://metadata.aai.switch.ch/metadata.switchaai.xml
- type: Scopes
url: scopes/epfl-scopes.yml
- aid: epfl:eduid-idp
name: EPFL Identity Provider (SWITCH edu-ID, tenant)
x-operator: tenant
x-operator-basis: The entityID https://idp.epfl.ch/idp/shibboleth is EPFL's namespace, but the SingleSignOnService endpoints
in the federation metadata point at https://epfl.login.eduid.ch/idp/profile/SAML2/…, an EPFL-specific hostname on SWITCH's
hosted edu-ID platform. EPFL's users and EPFL's attribute policy; SWITCH's running IdP. No SWITCH contract is saved under
EPFL's slug.
description: EPFL's SAML identity provider is delivered by SWITCH edu-ID as a hosted, EPFL-branded IdP. The relationship
is a real institutional fact — EPFL authenticates its community through it and its entity is federated into eduGAIN —
but the engineering belongs to SWITCH, so it is recorded as a tenant relationship rather than credited to EPFL.
humanURL: https://www.switch.ch/edu-id/
tags:
- Identity Federation
- SAML
- Tenants
tags_raw:
- Identity Federation
- SAML
- Tenant
properties:
- type: IdentityFederation
url: https://www.switch.ch/edu-id/
- aid: epfl:swisscovery-library
name: EPFL Library Discovery on swisscovery (Ex Libris, tenant)
x-operator: tenant
x-operator-basis: epfl.swisscovery.ch CNAMEs to slsp-epfl.primo.exlibrisgroup.com and then to eu03.primo.exlibrisgroup.com.
The federation metadata additionally registers https://slsp-epfl.alma.exlibrisgroup.com/mng/login and https://slsp-epfl.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/mng/login
as EPFL-scoped entities. EPFL-specific account on a shared vendor platform run by the SLSP consortium — tenant, not institution.
description: EPFL's library discovery and resolution run on Ex Libris Primo VE with Alma behind it, delivered through SLSP
(Swiss Library Service Platform). EPFL's holdings, EPFL's patrons, EPFL's branded entry point — Ex Libris's contract.
No Ex Libris specification is saved under EPFL's slug; the relationship is recorded so the catalog knows EPFL operates
a library discovery layer without crediting EPFL for someone else's API.
humanURL: https://epfl.swisscovery.ch/
tags:
- Library
- Discovery
- Ex Libris
- Tenants
tags_raw:
- Library
- Discovery
- Ex Libris
- Tenant
properties:
- type: LibraryCatalog
url: https://epfl.swisscovery.ch/
- aid: epfl:epfl-primers-api
name: EPFL Primers API
description: The Primers API from EPFL — 1 operation(s) for primers.
humanURL: https://actu.epfl.ch/
baseURL: https://actu.epfl.ch/api/v1/
tags:
- Primers
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/epfl-primers-api-openapi.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://getprime.epfl.ch/api_documentation
- type: Website
url: https://www.epfl.ch/research/facilities/gene-expression-core-facility/
common:
- type: Website
url: https://www.epfl.ch
- type: CourseCatalog
url: https://edu.epfl.ch/
- type: ResearchRepository
url: https://infoscience.epfl.ch/
- type: LibraryCatalog
url: https://epfl.swisscovery.ch/
- type: IdentityFederation
url: https://metadata.aai.switch.ch/metadata.switchaai.xml
- type: ResearchComputing
url: https://www.epfl.ch/research/facilities/scitas/
- type: AIPolicy
url: https://www.epfl.ch/education/teaching/index-html/ai-teaching/guidelines-for-the-use-of-ai-in-teaching-at-epfl/
- type: AITooling
url: https://www.epfl.ch/education/teaching/index-html/ai-teaching/
- type: Documentation
url: https://actu.epfl.ch/api-docs/
- type: APIReference
url: https://memento.epfl.ch/api/docs/
- type: TermsOfService
url: https://www.epfl.ch/about/overview/regulations-and-guidelines/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
url: https://www.epfl.ch/about/presidency/presidents-team/legal-affairs/epfl-privacy-policy/
- type: Support
url: https://www.epfl.ch/campus/library/
- type: Blog
url: https://actu.epfl.ch/
- type: GitHubOrganization
url: https://github.com/epfl-si
- type: GitHub
url: https://github.com/epfl-si
- type: LinkedIn
url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/epfl/
- type: SecurityTxt
url: https://www.epfl.ch/.well-known/security.txt
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/epfl-conformance.yml
- type: Scopes
url: scopes/epfl-scopes.yml
- type: Errors
url: errors/epfl-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/epfl-lifecycle.yml
- type: Vocabulary
url: vocabulary/epfl-vocabulary.yml
- type: JSONLD
url: json-ld/epfl-context.jsonld
- type: Rules
url: rules/epfl-rules.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
url: agentic-access/epfl-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
url: security/epfl-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/epfl-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/epfl-authentication.yml
- 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
EPFL API — frequently asked questions
Does EPFL have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 9 APIs from EPFL, including EPFL Actu News API, EPFL Memento Events API and EPFL Infoscience Institutional Repository, and 6 more.
Is there an OpenAPI specification for the EPFL API?
Yes. APIs.io indexes 3 OpenAPI specifications for EPFL, each linked for download from this page.
How do I authenticate with the EPFL API?
EPFL uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey/http · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Epfl Authentication.
How much does the EPFL API cost?
APIs.io lists 2 pricing plans for EPFL, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.
Is the EPFL API ready for AI agents?
EPFL has a Kin Score of 37.4 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 25.3 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.
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