The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur), founded in 1959 in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, is an Institute of National Importance and one of India's premier engineering and research institutions. It operates no central developer portal, no open-data portal, and no institutional GitHub organization. Its entire verified public programmatic footprint is the P.K. Kelkar (PKK) Library, which self-hosts Koha 23.11 on the institution's own host libserv.iitk.ac.in and exposes exactly two live machine-readable surfaces: a Koha REST API at /api/v1 whose /public/* subset answers unauthenticated (the rest returns 401), and an OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint serving oai_dc, marc21 and marcxml. Because Koha is open-source software the library runs itself rather than a hosted vendor platform, both surfaces are institution-operated even though the Koha community authored the contract. Two earlier claims in this profile were wrong and are corrected here: the ILS-DI service is NOT available — its describe page renders 200 but every actual call returns "ILS-DI is disabled" — and this repository's 64 apis[] entries were one Koha contract split by tag, presenting a single library API as 64 surfaces. Pingala, the ERP/SIS, is login-gated with no documented public API. No Shibboleth/SAML identity federation, no DataCite or Crossref membership, and no research-data repository were found; the institution is registered in ROR. Numerous student clubs and departments run their own GitHub organizations, but none is institution-operated.
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network: IIT Kanpur PKK Library Koha REST API and IIT Kanpur PKK Library OAI-PMH API. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Institute of Technology, and India.
The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, and 11 more developer resources.
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The REST API of the Koha 23.11 integrated library system that the P.K. Kelkar Library self-hosts at libserv.iitk.ac.in. Verified live on 2026-09-01: the spec is served at /api/v...
OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint for the P.K. Kelkar Library catalog, operated on the institution's own Koha installation. Verified live on 2026-09-01: Identify returns ...
aid: iit-kanpur
name: Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
description: 'The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur), founded in 1959 in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, is an Institute
of National Importance and one of India''s premier engineering and research institutions. It operates no central developer
portal, no open-data portal, and no institutional GitHub organization. Its entire verified public programmatic footprint
is the P.K. Kelkar (PKK) Library, which self-hosts Koha 23.11 on the institution''s own host libserv.iitk.ac.in and exposes
exactly two live machine-readable surfaces: a Koha REST API at /api/v1 whose /public/* subset answers unauthenticated (the
rest returns 401), and an OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint serving oai_dc, marc21 and marcxml. Because Koha is open-source
software the library runs itself rather than a hosted vendor platform, both surfaces are institution-operated even though
the Koha community authored the contract. Two earlier claims in this profile were wrong and are corrected here: the ILS-DI
service is NOT available — its describe page renders 200 but every actual call returns "ILS-DI is disabled" — and this repository''s
64 apis[] entries were one Koha contract split by tag, presenting a single library API as 64 surfaces. Pingala, the ERP/SIS,
is login-gated with no documented public API. No Shibboleth/SAML identity federation, no DataCite or Crossref membership,
and no research-data repository were found; the institution is registered in ROR. Numerous student clubs and departments
run their own GitHub organizations, but none is institution-operated.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
model: saas
open_source: false
commercial: true
callable_host: true
label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
confidence: high
source:
- openapi
- 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-kanpur.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/iit-kanpur/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Institute of Technology
- India
- Research
- Library
- Library Catalog
- Metadata
- Open Access
- OAI-PMH
- Koha
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-09-01'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
x-type: university
x-category: Institute of Technology
x-coverage:
state: covered
reason: covered
detail: 'Both institution-operated surfaces were probed live and both answer. The Koha REST API at https://libserv.iitk.ac.in/api/v1
serves its own specification (200, 667KB), renders a Swagger UI at /api/v1/.html (200), and answers /api/v1/public/libraries
anonymously with IIT Kanpur''s own records (200); staff routes return 401, which is a correct auth boundary, not a block.
The OAI-PMH endpoint answers Identify, ListMetadataFormats and ListIdentifiers (all 200). What is genuinely absent is
absent, not unreachable: api.iitk.ac.in, data.iitk.ac.in, ir.iitk.ac.in, idp.iitk.ac.in, webshib.iitk.ac.in, students.iitk.ac.in
and library.iitk.ac.in all fail DNS resolution; there is no institutional GitHub organization (api.github.com/orgs/iitk
returns 404 — only student club orgs such as pclubiitk and AUV-IITK exist); no Indian identity federation is listed among
eduGAIN''s 92 federations; DataCite and Crossref return zero matches. The previously claimed ILS-DI service is disabled
at the source: the describe page returns 200 but a real call returns <code>NotAllowed</code> "ILS-DI is disabled", which
is exactly the link-presence-is-not-liveness trap, and the claim has been removed.'
evidence:
- url: https://libserv.iitk.ac.in/api/v1/
status: 200
- url: https://libserv.iitk.ac.in/api/v1/.html
status: 200
- url: https://libserv.iitk.ac.in/api/v1/public/libraries
status: 200
- url: https://libserv.iitk.ac.in/api/v1/libraries
status: 401
- url: https://libserv.iitk.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/oai.pl?verb=Identify
status: 200
- url: https://libserv.iitk.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/oai.pl?verb=ListMetadataFormats
status: 200
- url: https://libserv.iitk.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/oai.pl?verb=ListIdentifiers&metadataPrefix=oai_dc
status: 200
- url: https://libserv.iitk.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/ilsdi.pl?service=GetAvailability&id=1&id_type=bib
status: 200
detail: Body is <code>NotAllowed</code> "ILS-DI is disabled" — a soft failure behind a 200.
- url: https://libserv.iitk.ac.in/opac/oai.pl?verb=Identify
status: 404
detail: The baseURL the repository advertises about itself in Identify is dead.
- url: https://www.iitk.ac.in/
status: 200
- url: https://api.github.com/orgs/iitk
status: 404
- url: https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations/05pjsgx75
status: 200
- url: https://api.crossref.org/members?query=Indian+Institute+of+Technology+Kanpur
status: 200
detail: total-results 0
- url: https://api.datacite.org/providers?query=kanpur
status: 200
detail: total 0
- url: https://technical.edugain.org/api?action=list_feds&format=json
status: 200
detail: 92 federations, none for India.
- url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/indian-institute-of-technology-kanpur/
status: 999
detail: LinkedIn bot challenge — live, not dead.
apis:
- aid: iit-kanpur:iit-kanpur-koha-rest-api
name: IIT Kanpur PKK Library Koha REST API
description: 'The REST API of the Koha 23.11 integrated library system that the P.K. Kelkar Library self-hosts at libserv.iitk.ac.in.
Verified live on 2026-09-01: the spec is served at /api/v1 (Swagger 2.0 on the wire, 667KB), a Swagger UI renders at /api/v1/.html,
/api/v1/public/libraries returns IIT Kanpur''s own library records with no authentication, and staff endpoints such as
/api/v1/libraries return 401 Authentication failure. This is ONE API with 64 resource groups, not 64 APIs. The 64 OpenAPI
documents below are per-tag splits of a single source contract (openapi/_original/iit-kanpur-library-rest.yaml) produced
by the API Evangelist refine step, and they are listed here as properties of one surface rather than as 64 separate entries.'
humanURL: https://libserv.iitk.ac.in/api/v1/.html
baseURL: https://libserv.iitk.ac.in/api/v1
x-operator: institution
x-operator-basis: Host libserv.iitk.ac.in is under the institution's own registrable domain iitk.ac.in, and Koha is open-source
software the library installs and runs itself — there is no vendor operating this endpoint. The CONTRACT, however, is
authored by the Koha Development Team (info.contact, GPL v3), not by IIT Kanpur; the institution operates the service,
the community wrote the spec.
x-contract-author: Koha Development Team (https://koha-community.org/)
tags:
- Library
- Library Catalog
- Koha
tags_raw:
- library
- library_catalog
- koha
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-2fa-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-article-requests-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-authorised-value-categories-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-authorised-values-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-authorities-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-baskets-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-batch-import-profiles-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-biblios-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-bookings-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-cash-registers-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-cashups-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-checkouts-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-circulation-rules-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-cities-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-clubs-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-desks-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-erm-agreements-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-erm-config-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-erm-counter-files-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-erm-counter-logs-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-erm-counter-registry-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-erm-default-usage-reports-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-erm-documents-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-erm-eholdings-packages-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-erm-eholdings-resources-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-erm-eholdings-titles-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-erm-licences-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-erm-sushi-service-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-erm-usage-data-providers-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-erm-usage-databases-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-erm-usage-items-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-erm-usage-platforms-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-erm-usage-reports-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-erm-usage-titles-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-erm-users-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-funds-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-holds-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-identity-providers-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-ill-backends-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-ill-batches-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-ill-batchstatuses-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-ill-requests-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-import-batches-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-item-groups-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-item-types-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-items-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-jobs-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-libraries-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-macros-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-oauth-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-orders-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-patron-categories-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-patrons-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-preservation-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-quotes-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-recalls-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-return-claims-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-rotas-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-search-filters-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-smtp-servers-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-suggestions-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-tickets-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-transfer-limits-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-vendors-api-openapi.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://libserv.iitk.ac.in/api/v1/.html
- type: APIReference
url: https://libserv.iitk.ac.in/api/v1/
- type: LibraryCatalog
url: https://libserv.iitk.ac.in/
- type: x-json-schema
url: json-schema/iit-kanpur-item-schema.json
- type: x-json-schema
url: json-schema/iit-kanpur-library-schema.json
- type: x-vocabulary
url: vocabulary/iit-kanpur-vocabulary.yml
- type: x-json-ld
url: json-ld/iit-kanpur-context.jsonld
- type: x-rules
url: rules/iit-kanpur-rules.yml
- type: x-examples
url: examples/iit-kanpur-list-libraries-example.json
- type: x-examples
url: examples/iit-kanpur-get-items-example.json
- aid: iit-kanpur:iit-kanpur-oai-pmh-api
name: IIT Kanpur PKK Library OAI-PMH API
description: 'OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint for the P.K. Kelkar Library catalog, operated on the institution''s
own Koha installation. Verified live on 2026-09-01: Identify returns repositoryName "PKK Library", adminEmail libcirc@iitk.ac.in,
granularity YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ, deletedRecord persistent and earliestDatestamp 2016-09-28T08:43:15Z; ListMetadataFormats
returns oai_dc, marc21 and marcxml; ListIdentifiers returns live records. ListSets returns noSetHierarchy — no sets are
defined. Requires no authentication. OAI-PMH is a named standard in the Kin Score education regime and this is IIT Kanpur''s
one domain-standard conformance.'
humanURL: https://libserv.iitk.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/oai.pl?verb=Identify
baseURL: https://libserv.iitk.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/oai.pl
x-operator: institution
x-operator-basis: Host libserv.iitk.ac.in is the institution's own; OAI-PMH is an Open Archives Initiative protocol, not
a vendor product, and the repository it exposes is IIT Kanpur's own catalog.
tags:
- Metadata
- OAI-PMH
- Open Access
- Library
tags_raw:
- metadata
- oai_pmh
- open_access
- library
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/iit-kanpur-oai-pmh-api-openapi.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
- type: x-conformance
url: conformance/iit-kanpur-conformance.yml
- aid: iit-kanpur:iit-kanpur-ror-registry-record
name: IIT Kanpur ROR Registry Record
description: 'IIT Kanpur''s registration in the Research Organization Registry (ROR), identifier https://ror.org/05pjsgx75,
active, domain iitk.ac.in, display names "IIT Kanpur" and "IITK". This records a MEMBERSHIP, not a surface the institution
operates: no ROR contract is saved under this slug and none should be. The entry exists because a registry registration
is a fact about the institution, and deleting it to avoid a shared host would destroy a real institutional identity record.'
humanURL: https://ror.org/05pjsgx75
baseURL: https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations/05pjsgx75
x-operator: registry
x-operator-basis: ror.org is an identifier registry IIT Kanpur is REGISTERED IN. The registry is operated by ROR; the registration
is IIT Kanpur's.
tags:
- Research
- Metadata
tags_raw:
- research
- metadata
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://ror.org/05pjsgx75
- type: x-conformance
url: conformance/iit-kanpur-conformance.yml
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
url: capabilities/iit-kanpur-capability-edges.yml
name: Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
url: agentic-access/iit-kanpur-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/iit-kanpur-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
url: https://www.iitk.ac.in/
- type: LinkedIn
url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/indian-institute-of-technology-kanpur/
- type: Documentation
url: https://libserv.iitk.ac.in/api/v1/.html
name: Koha REST API reference (Swagger UI) for the PKK Library
- type: APIReference
url: https://libserv.iitk.ac.in/api/v1/
name: Machine-readable Koha REST API specification
- type: LibraryCatalog
url: https://libserv.iitk.ac.in/
name: P.K. Kelkar Library catalog (Koha OPAC)
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/iit-kanpur-conformance.yml
name: Education-regime domain-standard conformance, probed
- type: Plans
url: plans/iit-kanpur-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
url: rate-limits/iit-kanpur-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
url: finops/iit-kanpur-finops.yml
- type: Review
url: review.yml
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