EPFL

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 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
  - 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
  - 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