Hamad Bin Khalifa University

Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) is a research-intensive graduate university founded in 2010 as part of Qatar Foundation, located in Education City, Doha, Qatar, and ranked #183 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. HBKU does not operate a centralized public developer portal or documented institutional API; its student information, academic catalog, and library discovery systems are gated behind authentication. The most significant public, machine-readable footprint is its scholarly research output, which is deposited in Manara - Qatar Research Repository, a Figshare-powered repository hosted by Qatar National Library that exposes HBKU works through Figshare's public REST API v2 and OAI-PMH metadata harvesting endpoint.

Hamad Bin Khalifa University publishes 10 APIs on the APIs.io network, including altmetric API, articles API, authors API, and 7 more. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Research, and Open Access.

The Hamad Bin Khalifa University catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s developer surface includes authentication, GitHub presence, engineering blog, and 12 more developer resources.

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42.9/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 41/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

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11 APIs

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Composite quality — 42.9/100 · developing

Contract Quality 16.7 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 2.6 / 20

Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13

Governance 7.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 41/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 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

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APIs 11

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Hbku Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

JSON Schema 3

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

Examples 3

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Hbku Scopes

1 scope · authorizationCode

1 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

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Hbku Agentic Access

157 operations · 81 acting · 2 human-in-the-loop

157 operations · 81 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

Library

Library

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

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

LinkedIn

Twitter

Twitter

Blog

Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Repository

Repository

Review

Review

Source (apis.yml)

aid: hbku
name: Hamad Bin Khalifa University
description: 'Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) is a research-intensive graduate university founded in 2010 as part of Qatar
  Foundation, located in Education City, Doha, Qatar, and ranked #183 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. HBKU does
  not operate a centralized public developer portal or documented institutional API; its student information, academic catalog,
  and library discovery systems are gated behind authentication. The most significant public, machine-readable footprint is
  its scholarly research output, which is deposited in Manara - Qatar Research Repository, a Figshare-powered repository hosted
  by Qatar National Library that exposes HBKU works through Figshare''s public REST API v2 and OAI-PMH metadata harvesting
  endpoint.'
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Free · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/hbku.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/hbku/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Open Access
- Repository
- Qatar
- Middle East
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: hbku:figshare-oai
  name: Figshare OAI-PMH (Manara - HBKU Research)
  description: Figshare exposes an OAI-PMH v2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint that provides access to public article metadata
    across the platform, including HBKU works hosted in Manara - Qatar Research Repository. Harvesting can be filtered to
    a specific portal/set, and supported metadata formats include Dublin Core (oai_dc), DataCite, RDF, CERIF, Qualified Dublin
    Core, METS, and UKETD_DC. This is third-party infrastructure hosting HBKU content.
  humanURL: https://docs.figshare.com/
  baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2/oai
  tags:
  - Research
  - Open Access
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata
  - Harvesting
  - Figshare
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://help.figshare.com/article/how-to-use-the-oai-pmh
- aid: hbku:hbku-altmetric-api
  name: Hamad Bin Khalifa University altmetric API
  description: The altmetric API from Hamad Bin Khalifa University — 1 operation(s) for altmetric.
  humanURL: https://docs.figshare.com/
  baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2
  tags:
  - altmetric
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hbku-altmetric-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/#figshare_documentation_oauth
- aid: hbku:hbku-articles-api
  name: Hamad Bin Khalifa University articles API
  description: The articles API from Hamad Bin Khalifa University — 34 operation(s) for articles.
  humanURL: https://docs.figshare.com/
  baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2
  tags:
  - articles
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hbku-articles-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/#figshare_documentation_oauth
- aid: hbku:hbku-authors-api
  name: Hamad Bin Khalifa University authors API
  description: The authors API from Hamad Bin Khalifa University — 2 operation(s) for authors.
  humanURL: https://docs.figshare.com/
  baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2
  tags:
  - authors
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hbku-authors-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/#figshare_documentation_oauth
- aid: hbku:hbku-collections-api
  name: Hamad Bin Khalifa University collections API
  description: The collections API from Hamad Bin Khalifa University — 21 operation(s) for collections.
  humanURL: https://docs.figshare.com/
  baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2
  tags:
  - collections
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hbku-collections-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/#figshare_documentation_oauth
- aid: hbku:hbku-institutions-api
  name: Hamad Bin Khalifa University institutions API
  description: The institutions API from Hamad Bin Khalifa University — 20 operation(s) for institutions.
  humanURL: https://docs.figshare.com/
  baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2
  tags:
  - institutions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hbku-institutions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/#figshare_documentation_oauth
- aid: hbku:hbku-oauth-api
  name: Hamad Bin Khalifa University oauth API
  description: The oauth API from Hamad Bin Khalifa University — 1 operation(s) for oauth.
  humanURL: https://docs.figshare.com/
  baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2
  tags:
  - oauth
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hbku-oauth-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/#figshare_documentation_oauth
- aid: hbku:hbku-other-api
  name: Hamad Bin Khalifa University other API
  description: The other API from Hamad Bin Khalifa University — 7 operation(s) for other.
  humanURL: https://docs.figshare.com/
  baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2
  tags:
  - other
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hbku-other-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/#figshare_documentation_oauth
- aid: hbku:hbku-profiles-api
  name: Hamad Bin Khalifa University profiles API
  description: The profiles API from Hamad Bin Khalifa University — 2 operation(s) for profiles.
  humanURL: https://docs.figshare.com/
  baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2
  tags:
  - profiles
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hbku-profiles-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/#figshare_documentation_oauth
- aid: hbku:hbku-projects-api
  name: Hamad Bin Khalifa University projects API
  description: The projects API from Hamad Bin Khalifa University — 17 operation(s) for projects.
  humanURL: https://docs.figshare.com/
  baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2
  tags:
  - projects
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hbku-projects-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/#figshare_documentation_oauth
- aid: hbku:hbku-symplectic-api
  name: Hamad Bin Khalifa University symplectic API
  description: The symplectic API from Hamad Bin Khalifa University — 5 operation(s) for symplectic.
  humanURL: https://docs.figshare.com/
  baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2
  tags:
  - symplectic
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hbku-symplectic-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/#figshare_documentation_oauth
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/hbku-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/hbku-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/hbku-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/hbku-scopes.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.hbku.edu.qa/en/home
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/cri-lab-hbku
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/hamad-bin-khalifa-university/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://x.com/hbku
- type: Library
  url: https://www.hbku.edu.qa/en/hbku-library
- type: Repository
  url: https://manara.qnl.qa/hbku
- 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
- url: https://www.hbku.edu.qa/en/news
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com