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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18.6/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessFree

1 APIs

EducationHigher EducationUniversityResearchOpen AccessInstitutional RepositoryJapan

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Composite quality — 18.6/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 3.2 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.9 / 10

Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

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.

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.

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

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review

Review

ProductPage

ProductPage

Source (apis.yml)

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: '0.19'
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

Hokkaido University

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APIs 1

HUSCAP XML Sitemaps

Pricing Plans 1

Hokkaido Plans Pricing

Rate Limits 1

Hokkaido Rate Limits

FinOps 1

Hokkaido Finops

Semantic Vocabularies 1

Hokkaido Context

Security Posture 1

Hokkaido Domain Security

Resources