Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

aid: iit-delhi
name: Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
x-type: university
x-category: Institute of Technology
description: 'Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi) is a public technical and research university in Hauz Khas,
  New Delhi — an Institute of National Importance and an Institution of Eminence, ranked #118 in the QS World University Rankings
  2025. IIT Delhi operates no developer portal, publishes no API documentation, no OpenAPI, no terms of service for machine
  access and no security.txt or llms.txt, and nothing in this profile was published by the institute as a developer-facing
  product. What it does operate, and what this profile records, is a small set of genuinely institution-run machine-readable
  surfaces found by probing its own domain: a Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider at idp.iitd.ac.in whose metadata is self-published
  and registered in the Indian access-management federation INFED and interfederated through eduGAIN since 2020 — the institute''s
  strongest and least-known standards conformance; a DSpace 8 institutional repository at ir.iitd.ac.in with a functional
  OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint advertising thirteen metadata formats; an OAuth 2 apps server at oauth.iitd.ac.in that lets
  campus developers register applications but publishes no discovery document, endpoint list or scope vocabulary; a Moodle
  deployment whose web-service endpoint answers but is token-gated; and an undocumented JSON API behind the shared React/Express
  site platform its departments run, which answers anonymous reads on convocation.iitd.ac.in, ird.iitd.ac.in and csc.iitd.ac.in.
  Its research information system is a tenant on INFLIBNET''s national IRINS platform, and its library discovery runs through
  the DELNET consortium — both real institutional facts, neither IIT Delhi''s engineering. The 2019-era student DevClub API
  that earlier profiles listed as a surface is dead: its host redirects to a domain that no longer resolves and its TLS certificate
  expired in August 2025.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
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: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/iit-delhi.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/iit-delhi/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Institute of Technology
- Research
- India
- Open Access
- Library
- Research Repository
- Identity Federation
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-30'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
x-coverage:
  state: gated
  reason: auth_required
  detail: 'IIT Delhi is genuinely thin, and the thinness is a documentation gap rather than an absence of surfaces. Five institution-operated
    machine-readable surfaces were confirmed live on 2026-08-30 — a Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider, an OAI-PMH 2.0
    harvesting endpoint, a DSpace 8 REST API, a Moodle web-service endpoint and an undocumented departmental JSON API — and
    the institute documents none of them. The two that would most repay description are gated: the OAuth 2 apps server at
    oauth.iitd.ac.in is entirely behind an interactive login and returns 404 for both OpenID Connect discovery and RFC 8414
    authorization-server metadata, so its endpoints, grants and scopes are unreadable from outside; and the DSpace content
    endpoints return 401 to anonymous callers even though the root document and discovery search are public. No contract in
    this repo is a vendor''s, and none was saved from a vendor host. The one tenant relationship recorded — IIT Delhi''s research
    information portal on INFLIBNET''s IRINS platform — sits behind a Cloudflare bot challenge and was confirmed by name from
    third-party sources rather than read directly.'
  evidence:
  - url: https://idp.iitd.ac.in/idp/shibboleth
    status: 200
  - url: https://ir.iitd.ac.in/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
    status: 200
  - url: https://ir.iitd.ac.in/server/api
    status: 200
  - url: https://ir.iitd.ac.in/server/api/core/items
    status: 401
  - url: https://oauth.iitd.ac.in/
    status: 200
  - url: https://oauth.iitd.ac.in/.well-known/openid-configuration
    status: 404
  - url: https://oauth.iitd.ac.in/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server
    status: 404
  - url: https://convocation.iitd.ac.in/api/news
    status: 200
  - url: https://convocation.iitd.ac.in/api/gallery
    status: 401
  - url: https://moodle.iitd.ac.in/webservice/rest/server.php
    status: 200
  - url: https://iitd.irins.org/
    status: 403
  - url: http://api.devclub.in/
    status: 302
  - url: https://home.iitd.ac.in/.well-known/security.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://home.iitd.ac.in/llms.txt
    status: 404
apis:
- aid: iit-delhi:idp-shibboleth
  name: IIT Delhi Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 metadata)
  x-operator: institution
  description: IIT Delhi runs its own Shibboleth identity provider at idp.iitd.ac.in and self-publishes its SAML 2.0 metadata
    as a machine-readable EntityDescriptor. The document names the institute as the organisation, scopes assertions to iitd.ac.in,
    and advertises IDPSSODescriptor and AttributeAuthorityDescriptor roles across HTTP-Redirect, HTTP-POST, POST-SimpleSign
    and SOAP bindings. The entity is registered in INFED, the Indian access-management federation operated by INFLIBNET, and
    interfederated through eduGAIN as entity 672721 since 2020-03-28 with a passing connectivity check. Institution-operated
    by definition, and the single most substantial machine-readable artifact IIT Delhi publishes about itself.
  humanURL: https://idp.iitd.ac.in/
  baseURL: https://idp.iitd.ac.in/idp
  tags:
  - Identity
  - Federation
  - SAML
  - Shibboleth
  - Single Sign-On
  - eduGAIN
  - INFED
  properties:
  - type: IdentityFederation
    url: https://idp.iitd.ac.in/idp/shibboleth
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/iit-delhi-authentication.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/iit-delhi-conformance.yml
- aid: iit-delhi:oai-pmh
  name: IIT Delhi Institutional Repository OAI-PMH
  x-operator: institution
  description: 'OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting interface for the IIT Delhi DSpace 8 institutional repository, on the institute''s
    own host. Verified functional on 2026-08-30, not merely mounted: Identify, ListMetadataFormats, ListSets and ListRecords
    all return valid responses. Thirteen metadata formats are advertised — oai_dc, qdc, mods, mets, didl, ore, xoai, dim,
    rdf, marc, etdms, rioxx and uketd_dc — and sets include Electronic Theses and Dissertations plus decade collections from
    1961 onward. OAI-PMH is an open protocol rather than a vendor contract, so this surface is IIT Delhi''s to claim.'
  humanURL: https://ir.iitd.ac.in/
  baseURL: https://ir.iitd.ac.in/server/oai/request
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata
  - Harvesting
  - Open Access
  - Library
  - Research
  - Theses
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ir.iitd.ac.in/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/iit-delhi-conformance.yml
- aid: iit-delhi:site-platform
  name: IIT Delhi Departmental Site Platform API
  x-operator: institution
  description: Undocumented JSON API behind the shared React/Express site platform IIT Delhi runs across departmental and
    unit subdomains. Anonymous reads were confirmed on 2026-08-30 across three deployments — convocation.iitd.ac.in serves
    /api/news and /api/contact, ird.iitd.ac.in serves /api/contact, /api/circulars and /api/announcements, and csc.iitd.ac.in
    serves /api/contact and /api/pages. Media collections and writes are gated behind the institute's own OAuth 2 server,
    which the API names in its own 401 body. IIT Delhi publishes no documentation, version marker, changelog or contract for
    this surface; the OpenAPI in this repo was reverse-described entirely from live probes and is marked as such.
  humanURL: https://convocation.iitd.ac.in/
  baseURL: https://convocation.iitd.ac.in/api
  tags:
  - Content
  - Departmental
  - JSON
  - Undocumented
  - Campus
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/iit-delhi-site-platform-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/iit-delhi-site-platform-schemas.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/iit-delhi-site-platform-examples.json
  - type: Errors
    url: errors/iit-delhi-errors.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/iit-delhi-authentication.yml
- aid: iit-delhi:dspace-rest
  name: IIT Delhi Institutional Repository DSpace REST API
  x-operator: institution
  description: The IIT Delhi Central Library institutional repository runs on DSpace 8.0 and exposes the standard DSpace REST/HAL
    API at /server/api on the institute's own host. The root endpoint is public and advertises dspaceVersion "DSpace 8.0",
    an authn link and roughly seventy resource links; discovery search answers anonymously; core content endpoints such as
    core/items return HTTP 401. The contract itself is the DSpace product's and belongs to DSpace, so no DSpace OpenAPI is
    saved under this institution — what IIT Delhi operates is the deployment and the data, which is what this entry records.
  humanURL: https://ir.iitd.ac.in/
  baseURL: https://ir.iitd.ac.in/server/api
  tags:
  - Repository
  - DSpace
  - Open Access
  - Research
  - Library
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ir.iitd.ac.in/server/api
  - type: ResearchRepository
    url: https://ir.iitd.ac.in/
  - type: Errors
    url: errors/iit-delhi-errors.yml
- aid: iit-delhi:oauth2
  name: IIT Delhi OAuth 2 Authentication Server
  x-operator: institution
  description: 'IIT Delhi operates an OAuth 2 authorization server that lets developers register their own campus apps and
    authenticate users with IIT Delhi credentials, and it is the real gate for the institute''s own web APIs — the departmental
    platform''s 401 body names it directly. The portal is live but wholly behind a login, and no discovery document is published:
    both /.well-known/openid-configuration and /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server returned 404 on 2026-08-30, and no
    endpoint, grant type or scope vocabulary exists in public. Publishing RFC 8414 metadata would be the single highest-leverage
    change available to this institution.'
  humanURL: https://oauth.iitd.ac.in/
  tags:
  - Authentication
  - Identity
  - SSO
  tags_raw:
  - Authentication
  - OAuth2
  - Identity
  - SSO
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://oauth.iitd.ac.in/
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/iit-delhi-authentication.yml
- aid: iit-delhi:moodle-webservices
  name: IIT Delhi Moodle Web Services
  x-operator: institution
  description: 'IIT Delhi self-hosts Moodle for the 2025-2026 academic year at moodle.iitd.ac.in, and its web-services endpoint
    is live: an anonymous call to /webservice/rest/server.php returns Moodle''s structured invalidtoken error rather than
    a 404, so the REST protocol is enabled and token-gated. No LTI Advantage platform endpoints are exposed — /mod/lti/certs.php,
    token.php and auth.php all return 404. The host is the institution''s own; the contract is Moodle''s product contract
    and is not saved here.'
  humanURL: https://moodle.iitd.ac.in/
  baseURL: https://moodle.iitd.ac.in/webservice/rest/server.php
  tags:
  - Learning Management
  - Moodle
  - Teaching
  - Campus
  - Token Auth
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://moodle.iitd.ac.in/
  - type: Errors
    url: errors/iit-delhi-errors.yml
- aid: iit-delhi:irins
  name: IIT Delhi Research Profiles on IRINS
  x-operator: tenant
  description: IIT Delhi's research information management portal is an institution-specific tenant on IRINS, the Indian Research
    Information Network System operated by the INFLIBNET Centre, an Inter-University Centre of the University Grants Commission.
    The data — faculty profiles, publications, academic identifiers — is IIT Delhi's; the platform, the contract and any API
    belong to INFLIBNET, so nothing is saved under this institution. The host returned a Cloudflare bot challenge on 2026-08-30,
    which grades live rather than dead; the tenancy was confirmed by name from third-party sources rather than read directly.
  humanURL: https://iitd.irins.org/
  tags:
  - Research Information
  - Profiles
  - IRINS
  - INFLIBNET
  - Tenant
  properties:
  - type: Website
    url: https://iitd.irins.org/
- aid: iit-delhi:iitd-connect
  name: IITD Connect API (DevClub) — retired
  x-operator: tenant
  description: 'Backend API for IITD Connect, the student-built IIT Delhi campus app maintained by DevClub, documented via
    Postman with User, Event, Club/Hostel/Body, News and Calendar collections and a bearer-token login. The deployment is
    DEAD as of 2026-08-30: api.devclub.in and devclub.iitd.ac.in both 30x to https://devclub.in, which does not resolve, and
    their wildcard TLS certificate expired on 2025-08-01. The source repository was last pushed in September 2023 and the
    Postman collection declares only a {{url}} variable with no base URL, so no callable host exists. Kept as a recorded relationship
    rather than deleted: this is a student-club project running on institute infrastructure, not IIT Delhi''s own engineering,
    and the honest record is that it existed and has lapsed.'
  humanURL: https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/11367216/SzmmUEKQ
  tags:
  - Mobile
  - Campus
  - Students
  - Event
  - DevClub
  tags_raw:
  - Mobile
  - Campus
  - Student
  - Events
  - DevClub
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/11367216/SzmmUEKQ
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/devclub-iitd/IITDConnectServer
common:
- type: License
  name: MIT
  url: https://github.com/devclub-iitd/IITDConnectServer/blob/master/LICENSE
- type: Website
  url: https://home.iitd.ac.in/
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: https://idp.iitd.ac.in/idp/shibboleth
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://ir.iitd.ac.in/
- type: LibraryCatalog
  url: https://library.iitd.ac.in/
- type: AIPolicy
  url: https://academics.iitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/IITD-AI-Guidelines.pdf
- type: Authentication
  url: https://oauth.iitd.ac.in/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/iit-delhi
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/devclub-iitd
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/iitdelhi/
- type: OpenAPI
  url: openapi/iit-delhi-site-platform-openapi.yml
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/iit-delhi-site-platform-schemas.json
- type: Examples
  url: examples/iit-delhi-site-platform-examples.json
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/iit-delhi-authentication.yml
- type: Errors
  url: errors/iit-delhi-errors.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/iit-delhi-conformance.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/iit-delhi-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/iit-delhi-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/iit-delhi-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/iit-delhi-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com