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Hokkaido University

Hokkaido University (北海道大学) is a national research university in Sapporo, Japan, founded in 1876 as Sapporo Agricultural College and ranked #173 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. It operates 12 undergraduate schools, 21 graduate schools, and numerous research institutes. Its public, machine-readable developer footprint is limited and centered on scholarly infrastructure: the HUSCAP institutional repository (Hokkaido University Collection of Scholarly and Academic Papers) and public XML sitemaps. The university does not publish a dedicated developer portal or documented public REST API; most institutional systems (ELMS LMS, syllabus search, researcher directory) are web UIs without documented programmatic access.

Hokkaido University publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Research, and Open Access.

The Hokkaido University catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

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17.1/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0
AccessFree
1 APIs
EducationHigher EducationUniversityResearchOpen AccessInstitutional RepositoryJapan

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0
Composite quality — 17.1/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 2.4 / 21
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 17
Access Clarity 4.9 / 17
Operational Transparency 2.3 / 11
Contract Governance 0.0 / 10
Discoverability 5.8 / 9
Regulatory Posture 3.1 / 15
Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 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 1

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

HUSCAP XML Sitemaps

Publicly crawlable XML sitemap index for the HUSCAP repository, providing a machine-readable list of repository item URLs. This is an open, robots.txt- permitted endpoint usable...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Hokkaido Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Hokkaido Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Hokkaido Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

Hokkaido Context

10 classes · 5 properties

JSON-LD

Security Posture 1

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

Hokkaido Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

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 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review
Review
 ProductPage
ProductPage

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: hokkaido
name: Hokkaido University
description: 'Hokkaido University (北海道大学) is a national research university in Sapporo, Japan, founded in 1876 as Sapporo
  Agricultural College and ranked #173 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. It operates 12 undergraduate schools, 21
  graduate schools, and numerous research institutes. Its public, machine-readable developer footprint is limited and centered
  on scholarly infrastructure: the HUSCAP institutional repository (Hokkaido University Collection of Scholarly and Academic
  Papers) and public XML sitemaps. The university does not publish a dedicated developer portal or documented public REST
  API; most institutional systems (ELMS LMS, syllabus search, researcher directory) are web UIs without documented programmatic
  access.'
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/hokkaido.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/hokkaido/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Open Access
- Institutional Repository
- Japan
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-07-25'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: hokkaido:huscap-sitemap
  name: HUSCAP XML Sitemaps
  description: Publicly crawlable XML sitemap index for the HUSCAP repository, providing a machine-readable list of repository
    item URLs. This is an open, robots.txt- permitted endpoint usable for programmatic discovery of repository records.
  humanURL: https://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/sitemap/sitemapindex.xml
  baseURL: https://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/sitemap/sitemapindex.xml
  tags:
  - Sitemap
  - XML
  - Discovery
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/sitemap/sitemapindex.xml
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/hokkaido-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.global.hokudai.ac.jp/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/hokkaidouni/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/hokkaido-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/hokkaido-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/hokkaido-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
- type: ProductPage
  url: https://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com