Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) is a research-intensive graduate university founded in 2010 within Qatar Foundation, in Education City, Doha, Qatar. Its central administration publishes no developer portal, no open-data portal and no identity federation entry — HBKU appears in no eduGAIN federation, and api.hbku.edu.qa answers every request with a WAF rejection. What it does operate comes almost entirely from one research institute, the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), whose domain qcri.org redirects into hbku.edu.qa: Fanar, Qatar's Arabic generative-AI platform, which publishes a first-party OpenAPI 3.1 at api.fanar.qa/openapi.json covering chat, speech, vision, translation, poetry and moderation, with a fourteen-code error vocabulary and a published per-model rate-limit table; and Farasa, a keyed Arabic NLP web API. Three further surfaces are tenant deployments on HBKU hosts and are recorded as relationships, not as HBKU contracts: a working public OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint over its Elsevier Pure research portal at elmi.hbku.edu.qa/ws/oai, a CourseLeaf course-search API at catalog.hbku.edu.qa whose term database is currently unavailable, and its research deposits in Manara — Qatar Research Repository, a Figshare platform run by Qatar National Library. The eleven "HBKU" Figshare API definitions this profile previously carried were one vendor contract, split eleven ways by tag and recorded under the university's name; they have been removed.
Hamad Bin Khalifa University publishes 13 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Arabic NLP API, Audio API, Images API, and 10 more. Tagged areas include University, Higher Education, Education, Research, and Qatar.
The Hamad Bin Khalifa University catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s developer surface includes engineering blog, authentication, and 23 more developer resources.
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holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in
front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created.
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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
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)
A2A Agent Card+8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Delegated User Identity+6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)
7 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.
Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):
Access Clarityscores 39.5 — up to +12.1 composite points
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.
HBKU's research information system, Elmi, runs Elsevier Pure on the university's own subdomain and exposes a public, unauthenticated OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint at elmi.hbku...
HBKU publishes its academic catalog on its own host, catalog.hbku.edu.qa, running CourseLeaf. The catalog ships a JSON course-search endpoint at /course-search/api/ that answers...
HBKU's scholarly output is deposited in Manara — Qatar Research Repository, a Figshare platform operated by Qatar National Library, with an HBKU portal at manara.qnl.qa/hbku. Th...
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description: 'Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) is a research-intensive graduate university founded in 2010 within Qatar
Foundation, in Education City, Doha, Qatar. Its central administration publishes no developer portal, no open-data portal
and no identity federation entry — HBKU appears in no eduGAIN federation, and api.hbku.edu.qa answers every request with
a WAF rejection. What it does operate comes almost entirely from one research institute, the Qatar Computing Research Institute
(QCRI), whose domain qcri.org redirects into hbku.edu.qa: Fanar, Qatar''s Arabic generative-AI platform, which publishes
a first-party OpenAPI 3.1 at api.fanar.qa/openapi.json covering chat, speech, vision, translation, poetry and moderation,
with a fourteen-code error vocabulary and a published per-model rate-limit table; and Farasa, a keyed Arabic NLP web API.
Three further surfaces are tenant deployments on HBKU hosts and are recorded as relationships, not as HBKU contracts: a
working public OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint over its Elsevier Pure research portal at elmi.hbku.edu.qa/ws/oai, a CourseLeaf course-search
API at catalog.hbku.edu.qa whose term database is currently unavailable, and its research deposits in Manara — Qatar Research
Repository, a Figshare platform run by Qatar National Library. The eleven "HBKU" Figshare API definitions this profile previously
carried were one vendor contract, split eleven ways by tag and recorded under the university''s name; they have been removed.'
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description: 'HBKU''s research information system, Elmi, runs Elsevier Pure on the university''s own subdomain and exposes
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url: authentication/hbku-authentication.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: errors/hbku-fanar-errors.yml
- type: RateLimits
url: rate-limits/hbku-rate-limits.yml
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/hbku-fanar-error-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/hbku-fanar-models-response-schema.json
- type: Examples
url: examples/hbku-fanar-models-401-example.json
- type: Examples
url: examples/hbku-fanar-chat-completion-example.json
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/hbku-lifecycle.yml
- type: SourceCode
url: https://huggingface.co/QCRI
- type: Documentation
url: https://farasa.qcri.org/
- type: Reference
url: https://alt.qcri.org/farasa/
- type: SignUp
url: https://farasa.qcri.org/
- type: Examples
url: examples/hbku-farasa-invalid-key-example.json
- aid: hbku:hbku-chat-completions-api
name: Hamad Bin Khalifa University Chat Completions API
description: The Chat Completions API from Hamad Bin Khalifa University — 1 operation(s) for chat completions.
humanURL: https://elmi.hbku.edu.qa/
baseURL: https://elmi.hbku.edu.qa/ws/oai
tags:
- Chat Completions
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/hbku-chat-completions-api-openapi.yml
- type: APIReference
url: https://api.fanar.qa/docs
- type: Documentation
url: https://fanar.qa/en
- type: SignUp
url: https://api.fanar.qa/request/en
- type: TermsOfService
url: https://fanar.qa/en/terms-of-services
- type: PrivacyPolicy
url: https://fanar.qa/en/privacy-policy
- type: ReleaseNotes
url: https://fanar.qa/en/2-0-release-notes
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/hbku-authentication.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: errors/hbku-fanar-errors.yml
- type: RateLimits
url: rate-limits/hbku-rate-limits.yml
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/hbku-fanar-error-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/hbku-fanar-models-response-schema.json
- type: Examples
url: examples/hbku-fanar-models-401-example.json
- type: Examples
url: examples/hbku-fanar-chat-completion-example.json
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/hbku-lifecycle.yml
- type: SourceCode
url: https://huggingface.co/QCRI
- type: Documentation
url: https://farasa.qcri.org/
- type: Reference
url: https://alt.qcri.org/farasa/
- type: SignUp
url: https://farasa.qcri.org/
- type: Examples
url: examples/hbku-farasa-invalid-key-example.json
common:
- type: Website
url: https://www.hbku.edu.qa/en/home
- type: PrivacyPolicy
url: https://www.hbku.edu.qa/en/privacy-policy
- type: Blog
url: https://www.hbku.edu.qa/en/news
- type: AITooling
url: https://fanar.qa/en
name: Fanar — Qatar's Arabic generative-AI platform, built by QCRI at HBKU
- type: DeveloperPortal
url: https://api.fanar.qa/docs
- type: ResearchComputing
url: https://www.hbku.edu.qa/en/qcri
name: Qatar Computing Research Institute
- type: CourseCatalog
url: https://catalog.hbku.edu.qa/
name: HBKU Academic Catalog (CourseLeaf)
- type: ResearchRepository
url: https://elmi.hbku.edu.qa/
name: Elmi — HBKU research portal (tenant; Elsevier Pure, with a public OAI-PMH endpoint)
- type: ResearchRepository
url: https://manara.qnl.qa/hbku
name: Manara — Qatar Research Repository (tenant; operated by Qatar National Library on Figshare)
- type: Library
url: https://www.hbku.edu.qa/en/hbku-library
- type: GitHubOrganization
url: https://github.com/qcri
- type: SourceCode
url: https://huggingface.co/QCRI
- type: LinkedIn
url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/hamad-bin-khalifa-university/
- type: x
url: https://x.com/hbku
- type: Vocabulary
url: vocabulary/hbku-vocabulary.yml
- type: JSONLD
url: json-ld/hbku-context.jsonld
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/hbku-education-standards.yml
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/hbku-lifecycle.yml
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/hbku-authentication.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: errors/hbku-fanar-errors.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/hbku-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
url: plans/hbku-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
url: rate-limits/hbku-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
url: finops/hbku-finops.yml
- type: Review
url: review.yml
x-coverage:
state: covered
reason: covered
detail: 'Two institution-operated APIs were found, read and probed live: the Fanar API (first-party OpenAPI 3.1.0, 11 paths
/ 12 operations, retrieved from api.fanar.qa/openapi.json) and the Farasa Web API (no published contract; six endpoints
confirmed by probe). Both are operated by the Qatar Computing Research Institute, a research institute of HBKU — qcri.org
redirects to hbku.edu.qa/en/qcri, and fanar.qa states "Developed by Qatar Computing Research Institute at Hamad Bin Khalifa
University". Three tenant surfaces on HBKU hosts were also confirmed by protocol rather than by link: a fully answering
unauthenticated OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint over Elsevier Pure at elmi.hbku.edu.qa/ws/oai (Identify, ListMetadataFormats, ListSets
and ListRecords all served), a CourseLeaf JSON course-search API at catalog.hbku.edu.qa that responds but whose term database
is missing server-side, and the Manara research repository on Qatar National Library''s Figshare platform. The negatives
were probed, not assumed: no open-data portal (data.hbku.edu.qa does not resolve), no registrar/SIS API (sis. and banner.
do not resolve), no identity federation (no Qatari federation among eduGAIN''s 92 and no hbku.edu.qa entity; idp.hbku.edu.qa
does not resolve, sso.hbku.edu.qa serves a mismatched certificate), no security.txt and no llms.txt. api.hbku.edu.qa resolves
but every request is refused by a BIG-IP WAF with no documented interface behind it.'
evidence:
- url: https://api.fanar.qa/openapi.json
status: 200
- url: https://api.fanar.qa/v1/models
status: 401
- url: https://api.fanar.qa/docs
status: 200
- url: https://farasa.qcri.org/webapi/lemmatization/
status: 400
- url: https://farasa.qcri.org/
status: 200
- url: https://qcri.org/
status: 200
- url: https://www.hbku.edu.qa/en/home
status: 200
- url: https://www.hbku.edu.qa/.well-known/security.txt
status: 404
- url: https://www.hbku.edu.qa/llms.txt
status: 404
- url: https://api.hbku.edu.qa/
status: 200
- url: https://data.hbku.edu.qa/
status: 0
- url: https://sis.hbku.edu.qa/
status: 0
- url: https://idp.hbku.edu.qa/idp/shibboleth
status: 0
- url: https://technical.edugain.org/api.php?action=list_feds
status: 200
- url: https://manara.qnl.qa/oai?verb=Identify
status: 202
- url: https://elmi.hbku.edu.qa/ws/oai?verb=Identify
status: 200
- url: https://elmi.hbku.edu.qa/ws/api/persons
status: 401
- url: https://catalog.hbku.edu.qa/course-search/api/?page=fose&route=search
status: 200
- url: https://sso.hbku.edu.qa/
status: 0
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
Hamad Bin Khalifa University API — frequently asked questions
Does Hamad Bin Khalifa University have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 13 APIs from Hamad Bin Khalifa University, including Elmi Research Portal — OAI-PMH, HBKU Academic Catalog — Course Search and Manara — Qatar Research Repository (HBKU portal), and 10 more.
Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Hamad Bin Khalifa University API?
Yes. APIs.io indexes 10 OpenAPI specifications for Hamad Bin Khalifa University, each linked for download from this page.
How do I authenticate with the Hamad Bin Khalifa University API?
Hamad Bin Khalifa University uses bearer-token authentication (http-bearer/api-key-in-body · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Hbku Authentication.
How much does the Hamad Bin Khalifa University API cost?
APIs.io lists 2 pricing plans for Hamad Bin Khalifa University, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.
Is the Hamad Bin Khalifa University API ready for AI agents?
Hamad Bin Khalifa University has a Kin Score of 39.8 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 30.1 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.
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