Fudan University

Fudan University is a public research university in Shanghai, China, and a member of the national C9 League and Double First-Class programme. Its programmable footprint is small and almost entirely internal, but — unusually for this cohort — none of it is a vendor's contract wearing the university's name: every surface catalogued here runs on a host under fudan.edu.cn and is operated by Fudan itself. The real find is identity federation. Fudan operates a Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider, registered with the CARSI federation and published to eduGAIN since February 2020, and it serves its own SAML metadata live at idpfudan.fudan.edu.cn. Alongside it, id.fudan.edu.cn publishes a working OpenID Connect discovery document and JWKS with no authentication required. Both are genuinely machine-readable and neither is documented anywhere Fudan publishes. Beyond identity, the Social Science Data Platform migrated off Dataverse to a custom application at rdr.fudan.edu.cn/datahome; its JSON backend answers, but it is undocumented, session-bound, and returns application-level refusals with HTTP 200. There is no developer portal, no public API key programme, no OAI-PMH, no open data portal, no robots.txt and no llms.txt on the main site, and the official GitHub organisation has zero public repositories — the university's public code lives instead in departmental lab organisations.

Fudan University publishes 1 API contract indexed on the APIs.io network: Authorization API, Discovery API, and Identity API. Tagged areas include University, Higher Education, Education, China, and Shanghai.

The Fudan University catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Fudan University’s developer surface includes support, engineering blog, and 18 more developer resources.

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22.8/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 89/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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University Higher Education Education China Shanghai C9 League Identity Federation Research Data SSO

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Composite quality — 22.8/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 4.8 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 2.9 / 15

Access Clarity 0.8 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.8 / 10

Contract Governance 1.6 / 9

Discoverability 4.3 / 8

Regulatory Posture 4.9 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 20/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document

9 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 5.3 — up to +18.9 composite points
Contract Quality scores 25.6 — up to +18.6 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 19.0 — up to +16.2 composite points

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SSO

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

OpenAPI

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APIs 5

Individual APIs this provider publishes. MODELED: a real API behind a partner or contract gate; there is no public reference, so API Evangelist drew its shape. NOT AN API: a product area with no API behind it, not counted.

Fudan University Shibboleth Identity Provider (CARSI / eduGAIN)

Fudan's SAML 2.0 identity provider, entityID https://idpfudan.fudan.edu.cn/idp/shibboleth, asserting scope fudan.edu.cn. It is registered with CARSI, China's education federatio...

Fudan University Social Science Data Platform (复旦大学社会科学数据平台)

Fudan's institutional research data repository, operated by the Research Center for Social Sciences. It moved off Dataverse: dvn.fudan.edu.cn now only meta-refreshes to rdr.fuda...

NOT AN API

Fudan University Authorization API

End-user authentication and token issuance.

Fudan University Discovery API

Machine-readable metadata about the provider.

Fudan University Identity API

Claims about the authenticated end user.

Fudan University API pricing

Not yet checked against Fudan University's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-06-03 from raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/fudan/refs/heads...; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free / Open free	Free
Affiliation / Credentialed free	Free

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Fudan Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Fudan Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Fudan University

SLA

FinOps 1

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

Fudan Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Fudan Context

15 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Fudan University API Rules

55 rules · 53 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 1

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

Fudan University OpenID Connect discovery document

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 2

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Fudan Idp Jwks

1 fields

EXAMPLE

Fudan Openid Configuration

13 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Fudan Authentication

0 schemes

SECURITY

Fudan Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Fudan Vulnerability Disclosure

no policy recorded

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Fudan Scopes

1 scope

1 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

LibraryCatalog

LibraryCatalog

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

CourseCatalog

CourseCatalog

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Other 5

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

IdentityFederation

IdentityFederation

IdentityFederation

IdentityFederation

ResearchRepository

ResearchRepository

AIPolicy

AIPolicy

Review

Review

Source (apis.yml)

aid: fudan
name: Fudan University
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
description: 'Fudan University is a public research university in Shanghai, China, and a member of the national C9 League
  and Double First-Class programme. Its programmable footprint is small and almost entirely internal, but — unusually for
  this cohort — none of it is a vendor''s contract wearing the university''s name: every surface catalogued here runs on a
  host under fudan.edu.cn and is operated by Fudan itself. The real find is identity federation. Fudan operates a Shibboleth
  SAML 2.0 identity provider, registered with the CARSI federation and published to eduGAIN since February 2020, and it serves
  its own SAML metadata live at idpfudan.fudan.edu.cn. Alongside it, id.fudan.edu.cn publishes a working OpenID Connect discovery
  document and JWKS with no authentication required. Both are genuinely machine-readable and neither is documented anywhere
  Fudan publishes. Beyond identity, the Social Science Data Platform migrated off Dataverse to a custom application at rdr.fudan.edu.cn/datahome;
  its JSON backend answers, but it is undocumented, session-bound, and returns application-level refusals with HTTP 200. There
  is no developer portal, no public API key programme, no OAI-PMH, no open data portal, no robots.txt and no llms.txt on the
  main site, and the official GitHub organisation has zero public repositories — the university''s public code lives instead
  in departmental lab organisations.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - probe
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: closed
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Institution-internal
  confidence: high
  source:
  - probe
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/fudan.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/fudan/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- University
- Higher Education
- Education
- China
- Shanghai
- C9 League
- Identity Federation
- Research Data
- SSO
tags_raw:
- University
- Higher Education
- Education
- China
- Shanghai
- C9 League
- Identity Federation
- Research Data
- Single Sign-On
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-30'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
x-coverage:
  state: gated
  reason: auth-required
  detail: 'Fudan operates real, institution-owned surfaces and two of them publish machine-readable metadata anonymously —
    the SAML 2.0 IdP metadata at idpfudan.fudan.edu.cn/idp/shibboleth and the OpenID Connect discovery document plus JWKS
    at id.fudan.edu.cn/idp. Those are captured and described here in full. Everything the institution actually runs behind
    them is closed: the OIDC endpoints need a client_id issued by the IT Office and there is no public registration; the research
    data platform''s JSON backend answers every unauthenticated call with HTTP 200 and the body {"status":4000,"message":"状态锁不得为空"}.
    No developer portal, no API key programme and no documentation exists for any of it. This is not a bot block and not a
    language barrier — Chinese-language surfaces were searched and read, and the Chinese Information Technology Office pages
    were the source for several corrections here.'
  evidence:
  - url: https://idpfudan.fudan.edu.cn/idp/shibboleth
    status: 200
  - url: https://id.fudan.edu.cn/idp/.well-known/openid-configuration
    status: 200
  - url: https://id.fudan.edu.cn/idp/oidc/getPublicKey
    status: 200
  - url: https://rdr.fudan.edu.cn/datahome/open/admin/loginUserInfo.do
    status: 200
  - url: https://rdr.fudan.edu.cn/api/info/version
    status: 404
  - url: https://dvn.fudan.edu.cn/oai?verb=Identify
    status: 404
  - url: https://library.fudan.edu.cn/oai?verb=Identify
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.fudan.edu.cn/robots.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.fudan.edu.cn/llms.txt
    status: 404
apis:
- aid: fudan:identity-saml
  name: Fudan University Shibboleth Identity Provider (CARSI / eduGAIN)
  x-operator: institution
  description: 'Fudan''s SAML 2.0 identity provider, entityID https://idpfudan.fudan.edu.cn/idp/shibboleth, asserting scope
    fudan.edu.cn. It is registered with CARSI, China''s education federation, and interfederated into eduGAIN, where it has
    carried entity id 671764 since 2020-02-12. Fudan serves the metadata itself: a 14,734-byte EntityDescriptor with both
    an IDPSSODescriptor and an AttributeAuthorityDescriptor, supporting SAML 2.0, SAML 1.1 and the Shibboleth 1.0 profile.
    This is a machine-readable institutional surface that almost no university in this cohort has catalogued, and it is the
    basis of the shibboleth and saml conformance recorded here. One operational note: the self-served copy still carries the
    stock Shibboleth mdui:DisplayName ("A Name for the IdP at idpfudan.fudan.edu.cn"), while the CARSI-registered copy carries
    the proper English and Chinese names.'
  humanURL: https://idpfudan.fudan.edu.cn/idp/shibboleth
  baseURL: https://idpfudan.fudan.edu.cn/idp
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - SAML
  - Shibboleth
  - eduGAIN
  - CARSI
  properties:
  - type: Metadata
    url: examples/fudan-idp-saml-metadata.xml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/fudan-authentication.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/fudan-conformance.yml
- aid: fudan:research-data-platform
  x-published: false
  name: Fudan University Social Science Data Platform (复旦大学社会科学数据平台)
  x-operator: institution
  description: 'Fudan''s institutional research data repository, operated by the Research Center for Social Sciences. It moved
    off Dataverse: dvn.fudan.edu.cn now only meta-refreshes to rdr.fudan.edu.cn/datahome, which is a Vue single-page application
    over a Spring Boot backend. That backend is live and returns JSON, but it is undocumented, session-bound, and refuses
    unauthenticated calls with HTTP 200 and an in-body status 4000. No Dataverse REST API, no OAI-PMH and no published API
    of any kind responds on either host, so no contract is saved for this surface. re3data still records the software as Dataverse
    and the PID system as Handle; that record was last updated 2025-07-24 and is stale.'
  humanURL: https://rdr.fudan.edu.cn/datahome/open/dataResource
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - Research Repository
  - Undocumented
  - Gated
  properties:
  - type: Errors
    url: errors/fudan-errors.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/fudan-lifecycle.yml
- aid: fudan:fudan-authorization-api
  name: Fudan University Authorization API
  description: End-user authentication and token issuance.
  humanURL: https://id.fudan.edu.cn/
  baseURL: https://id.fudan.edu.cn/idp
  tags:
  - Authorization
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/fudan-authorization-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/fudan-authentication.yml
  - type: Scopes
    url: scopes/fudan-scopes.yml
  - type: Errors
    url: errors/fudan-errors.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/fudan-openid-configuration-schema.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/fudan-openid-configuration.json
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/fudan-vocabulary.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/fudan-conformance.yml
- aid: fudan:fudan-discovery-api
  name: Fudan University Discovery API
  description: Machine-readable metadata about the provider.
  humanURL: https://id.fudan.edu.cn/
  baseURL: https://id.fudan.edu.cn/idp
  tags:
  - Discovery
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/fudan-discovery-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/fudan-authentication.yml
  - type: Scopes
    url: scopes/fudan-scopes.yml
  - type: Errors
    url: errors/fudan-errors.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/fudan-openid-configuration-schema.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/fudan-openid-configuration.json
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/fudan-vocabulary.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/fudan-conformance.yml
- aid: fudan:fudan-identity-api
  name: Fudan University Identity API
  description: Claims about the authenticated end user.
  humanURL: https://id.fudan.edu.cn/
  baseURL: https://id.fudan.edu.cn/idp
  tags:
  - Identity
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/fudan-identity-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/fudan-authentication.yml
  - type: Scopes
    url: scopes/fudan-scopes.yml
  - type: Errors
    url: errors/fudan-errors.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/fudan-openid-configuration-schema.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/fudan-openid-configuration.json
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/fudan-vocabulary.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/fudan-conformance.yml
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.fudan.edu.cn
- type: Website
  url: https://www.fudan.edu.cn/en/
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: https://idpfudan.fudan.edu.cn/idp/shibboleth
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: https://id.fudan.edu.cn/idp/.well-known/openid-configuration
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://rdr.fudan.edu.cn/datahome/open/dataResource
- type: LibraryCatalog
  url: https://library.fudan.edu.cn/
- type: CourseCatalog
  url: https://jwc.fudan.edu.cn/
- type: AIPolicy
  url: https://news.fudan.edu.cn/2024/1220/c3163a143685/page.htm
- type: Support
  url: https://xxb.fudan.edu.cn/
- type: Blog
  url: https://news.fudan.edu.cn/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/FudanUniversity
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/FudanNLP
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/FudanSELab
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/fudan-university/
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/fudan-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/fudan-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/fudan-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/fudan-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/fudan-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Fudan University API — frequently asked questions

Does Fudan University have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 5 APIs from Fudan University, including Fudan University Shibboleth Identity Provider (CARSI / eduGAIN), Fudan University Social Science Data Platform (复旦大学社会科学数据平台) and Fudan University Authorization API, and 2 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Fudan University API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 3 OpenAPI specifications for Fudan University, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Fudan University API?

Fudan University uses bearer-token authentication (0 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Fudan Authentication.

How much does the Fudan University API cost?

APIs.io lists 2 pricing plans for Fudan University, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Fudan University API ready for AI agents?

Fudan University has a Kin Score of 22.8 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 20.3 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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