Indian Institute of Technology Madras

aid: iit-madras
name: Indian Institute of Technology Madras
description: 'Indian Institute of Technology Madras is a public institute of technology in Chennai, India, founded in 1959
  and consistently ranked first in India''s NIRF engineering rankings. It publishes no developer portal, no open data portal
  and no OpenAPI, AsyncAPI or other open specification of its own — api.iitm.ac.in does not resolve — but it is not empty,
  and the June 2026 profile that recorded "no APIs" missed the surfaces it does operate. Three are institution-run and machine
  readable: a Shibboleth SAML identity provider at idp.iitm.ac.in, registered in the INFLIBNET Access Management Federation
  (INFED) and flowing into eduGAIN since 2018; a self-hosted Moodle at courses.iitm.ac.in that serves a live, unauthenticated
  LTI 1.3 JWKS and an LTI Advantage token endpoint alongside the standard Moodle web-services REST server; and the Shoonya
  annotation platform API run by AI4Bharat, the institute''s language-AI centre, which ships a live drf-yasg documentation
  surface over a credentialed Django REST API. IIT Madras is also a Crossref member (49493, prefix 10.70002) and holds ROR
  03v0r5n49. Two further surfaces are real institutional facts running on someone else''s platform and are recorded as tenancies,
  not as IIT Madras contracts: the online-degree Discourse forum, which CNAMEs to iitm.hosted-by-discourse.com, and the institute''s
  IRINS research-profile instance at iitm.irins.org, operated by INFLIBNET. Everything callable here is credentialed; the
  institute''s own institutional repository host, irepose.iitm.ac.in, no longer resolves at all.'
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: institutional
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free · Institutional affiliation or federation membership required
  confidence: high
  source:
  - identity-federation
  - plans
  generated: '2026-09-01'
  method: probed
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/iit-madras.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/iit-madras/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Institute of Technology
- Research
- India
- IIT
- Identity Federation
- Learning Management
- Artificial Intelligence
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-09-01'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: iit-madras:idp
  name: IIT Madras Shibboleth Identity Provider (INFED / eduGAIN)
  description: IIT Madras's own SAML 2.0 identity provider, entityID https://idp.iitm.ac.in/idp/shibboleth, registered by
    INFED (the INFLIBNET Access Management Federation) and published into eduGAIN as entity 672697 since 2018-11-02. The eduGAIN
    record carries both an IDPSSODescriptor and an AttributeAuthorityDescriptor, a shibmd scope of iitm.ac.in, and ECCS status
    1. The entityID itself returns 403 to anonymous clients, so the authoritative machine-readable description is the federation
    aggregate rather than a per-entity metadata URL. This is the strongest institution-operated machine-readable surface in
    the profile and it was entirely absent from the June 2026 pass.
  humanURL: https://idp.iitm.ac.in/
  baseURL: https://idp.iitm.ac.in/idp/
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - SAML
  - Shibboleth
  - Single Sign-On
  properties:
  - type: IdentityFederation
    url: identity-federation/iit-madras-identity-federation.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/iit-madras-conformance.yml
  x-operator: federation
  x-operator-basis: idp.iitm.ac.in resolves through waf01.iitm.ac.in to 103.158.42.45 — IIT Madras's own address space, the
    same front end that serves www.iitm.ac.in and cenlib.iitm.ac.in — with no CNAME onto a vendor identity platform. The IdP
    is the institution's; the federation carrying it is shared by definition.
- aid: iit-madras:moodle-lti
  name: IIT Madras Moodle — LTI 1.3 platform and Moodle Web Services
  description: The institute's self-hosted Moodle at courses.iitm.ac.in. Its LTI 1.3 public JWKS at /mod/lti/certs.php returns
    HTTP 200 application/json with an RS256 signing key and no credentials required; the LTI Advantage token endpoint at /mod/lti/token.php
    is live and rejects unsigned requests; and the Moodle web-services REST server answers core_webservice_get_site_info with
    a structured invalidtoken exception, i.e. the API is enabled and every useful call is credentialed. No OpenAPI is published,
    and Moodle's own generic contract belongs to Moodle — it is deliberately not saved under this institution.
  humanURL: https://courses.iitm.ac.in/
  baseURL: https://courses.iitm.ac.in/
  tags:
  - Learning Management
  - LTI
  - Course Catalog
  - Moodle
  properties:
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/iit-madras-lti-platform.yml
  - type: CourseCatalog
    url: https://courses.iitm.ac.in/
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/iit-madras-conformance.yml
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-basis: courses.iitm.ac.in is an IIT Madras hostname fronted by a Barracuda WAF (app981586.prod.cudawaas.com)
    with the origin behind it. A WAF is not a tenancy — there is no moodlecloud.com, Canvas or Blackboard host in the chain,
    and the deployment is the institute's own.
- aid: iit-madras:shoonya
  name: Shoonya annotation platform API (AI4Bharat, IIT Madras)
  description: A Django REST Framework API operated by AI4Bharat, IIT Madras's language-AI centre, behind the Shoonya data-annotation
    platform. The API root returns a browsable JSON index of /task/, /annotation/ and /prediction/; each of those returns
    HTTP 401 {"detail":"Authentication credentials were not provided."}. A drf-yasg documentation surface is live at /swagger/
    ("Shoonya API Docs") and /redoc, but the generated specification at /swagger.json, /swagger.yaml and /swagger/?format=openapi
    all return HTTP 500 — the docs render and the machine-readable contract does not. Recorded as an institution-operated
    API with no retrievable specification rather than padded with one we do not have.
  humanURL: https://backend.shoonya.ai4bharat.org/swagger/
  baseURL: https://backend.shoonya.ai4bharat.org/
  tags:
  - Artificial Intelligence
  - Data Annotation
  - Natural Language Processing
  - Research
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://backend.shoonya.ai4bharat.org/swagger/
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/AI4Bharat/Shoonya-Backend
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-basis: 'AI4Bharat is a centre of IIT Madras: its canonical website is ai4bharat.iitm.ac.in, on the institute''s
    own registrable domain, and ai4bharat.org 301s to it. The service host backend.shoonya.ai4bharat.org is the centre''s
    own domain, not a vendor''s shared platform, and the source is published by the institute''s own GitHub organisation,
    github.com/AI4Bharat. Recorded as institution with the domain caveat stated rather than silently upgraded.'
- aid: iit-madras:discourse
  name: IIT Madras Online Degree community forum (Discourse tenant)
  description: The discussion forum for the IIT Madras BS in Data Science and Applications programme, running on Discourse's
    hosted service. Discourse's JSON API is present at every route — /site.json, /latest.json and /categories.json all return
    application/json — but all three return HTTP 403 {"errors":["You need to be logged in to do that."]}, so the forum is
    a closed community rather than a public read surface. /srv/status returns 200 "ok". The content and the community are
    IIT Madras's; the contract is Discourse's and is not saved here.
  humanURL: https://discourse.onlinedegree.iitm.ac.in/
  baseURL: https://discourse.onlinedegree.iitm.ac.in/
  tags:
  - Community
  - Forum
  - Online Degree
  properties:
  - type: Website
    url: https://discourse.onlinedegree.iitm.ac.in/
  x-operator: tenant
  x-operator-basis: discourse.onlinedegree.iitm.ac.in CNAMEs to iitm.hosted-by-discourse.com (184.104.178.43) — an institution-specific
    hostname on Discourse's managed platform. Classic tenancy.
- aid: iit-madras:irins
  name: IIT Madras research profiles (IRINS tenant)
  description: IIT Madras's instance of IRINS, the Indian Research Information Network System operated by the INFLIBNET Centre,
    linked from the Central Library as the institute's research-profile directory. The host is live but sits behind a Cloudflare
    managed challenge and returns HTTP 403 "Just a moment..." to non-browser clients, so no ORCID or Scopus integration could
    be dereferenced from outside. The profiles and the publication records are IIT Madras's; the platform and its contract
    are INFLIBNET's.
  humanURL: https://iitm.irins.org/
  baseURL: https://iitm.irins.org/
  tags:
  - Research Repository
  - CRIS
  - Research Outputs
  properties:
  - type: ResearchRepository
    url: https://iitm.irins.org/
  x-operator: tenant
  x-operator-basis: iitm.irins.org is an institution-specific subdomain of irins.org, INFLIBNET's national research information
    platform shared by hundreds of Indian institutions. Linked from cenlib.iitm.ac.in.
- aid: iit-madras:crossref
  name: Crossref membership (member 49493)
  description: IIT Madras is a Crossref member in its own right — member 49493, primary name "Indian Institute of Technology
    Madras", location Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, DOI prefix 10.70002, 11 current DOIs as of 2026-09-01. This is a fact about
    the institution, recorded as a membership; the Crossref REST API contract is Crossref's and is not saved here.
  humanURL: https://www.crossref.org/
  baseURL: https://api.crossref.org/members/49493
  tags:
  - Registry
  - DOI
  - Scholarly Metadata
  properties:
  - type: Registry
    url: https://api.crossref.org/members/49493
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/iit-madras-conformance.yml
  x-operator: registry
  x-operator-basis: api.crossref.org is an identifier registry IIT Madras is registered in, not a vendor platform running
    under its name. The membership is evidenced by a dereferenceable member record.
- aid: iit-madras:ror
  name: ROR registration (03v0r5n49)
  description: IIT Madras is registered in the Research Organization Registry as https://ror.org/03v0r5n49, established 1959,
    domain iitm.ac.in, with cross-references to Funder ID 501100003845, GRID grid.417969.4, ISNI 0000 0001 2315 1926 and Wikidata
    Q858662. Recorded as a registry membership; the ROR API contract is ROR's.
  humanURL: https://ror.org/03v0r5n49
  baseURL: https://api.ror.org/organizations/03v0r5n49
  tags:
  - Registry
  - Organization Identifier
  properties:
  - type: Registry
    url: https://ror.org/03v0r5n49
  x-operator: registry
  x-operator-basis: An identifier registry IIT Madras is registered in. Shared with every other registered organisation by
    design, which is not misattribution.
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.iitm.ac.in/
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: identity-federation/iit-madras-identity-federation.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/iit-madras-conformance.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/iit-madras-lti-platform.yml
- type: CourseCatalog
  url: https://courses.iitm.ac.in/
- type: LibraryCatalog
  url: https://webopac.iitm.ac.in/
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://iitm.irins.org/
- type: AIPolicy
  url: https://cerai.iitm.ac.in/
- type: Registry
  url: https://ror.org/03v0r5n49
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.iitm.ac.in/privacy-policy
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.iitm.ac.in/happenings/press-releases-and-coverages
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/IIT-Madras
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/AI4Bharat
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://in.linkedin.com/school/reachiitm/
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/iit-madras-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/iit-madras-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/iit-madras-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/iit-madras-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/iit-madras-context.jsonld
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-type: university
x-category: Institute of Technology
x-coverage:
  state: gated
  reason: auth_required
  detail: 'IIT Madras operates real machine-readable surfaces and publishes no contract for any of them. Three are institution-run
    and were confirmed live on 2026-09-01: the Shibboleth SAML identity provider at idp.iitm.ac.in, registered by INFED and
    visible in eduGAIN as entity 672697 with scope iitm.ac.in; the self-hosted Moodle at courses.iitm.ac.in, whose LTI 1.3
    JWKS is served unauthenticated at HTTP 200 while its web-services REST server returns a structured invalidtoken exception;
    and the AI4Bharat Shoonya API, whose /task/, /annotation/ and /prediction/ resources all return HTTP 401 with a JSON detail
    body. The Shoonya drf-yasg docs page renders, but every machine-readable form of that specification — /swagger.json, /swagger.yaml,
    /swagger/?format=openapi — returns HTTP 500, so no contract could be harvested and none was invented.

    Nothing here is a vendor contract wearing an IIT Madras name. Two surfaces are genuine tenancies and are recorded as relationships
    rather than as institute contracts: the online-degree Discourse forum, which CNAMEs to iitm.hosted-by-discourse.com and
    returns 403 not-logged-in on every JSON route, and the IRINS research-profile instance at iitm.irins.org, which is behind
    a Cloudflare managed challenge — live-but-unreadable to a non-browser client, a limit of our probe rather than a finding
    about the institute. Two registry memberships are facts about the institution and are kept as such: Crossref member 49493
    (prefix 10.70002) and ROR 03v0r5n49. DataCite returns zero providers and zero repositories for IIT Madras.

    The gaps are real and probed, not assumed. api.iitm.ac.in, data.iitm.ac.in, dspace.iitm.ac.in, ir.iitm.ac.in and repository.iitm.ac.in
    do not resolve. No OAI-PMH endpoint exists: cenlib.iitm.ac.in/oai and webopac.iitm.ac.in/oai/request?verb=Identify both
    404, and irepose.iitm.ac.in — the DSpace-CRIS "Knowledge Repository at IIT Madras" still linked from the Central Library
    — is NXDOMAIN from IIT Madras''s own authoritative nameservers, so the institute''s institutional repository is currently
    off the air. The library discovery layer at webopac.iitm.ac.in is a live SirsiDynix Enterprise deployment on IIT Madras
    address space with no RSS or OAI output. www.iitm.ac.in answers 200 for unknown paths with the site homepage, so /sso,
    /terms-of-use, /sitemap.xml and /.well-known/security.txt are soft-404s; the previously recorded ProductPage pointer to
    https://www.iitm.ac.in/sso has been removed for exactly that reason.'
  assessed: '2026-09-01'
  method: probed
  evidence:
  - url: https://technical.edugain.org/api.php?action=list_entities&format=json
    status: 200
  - url: https://idp.iitm.ac.in/
    status: 200
  - url: https://idp.iitm.ac.in/idp/shibboleth
    status: 403
  - url: https://courses.iitm.ac.in/mod/lti/certs.php
    status: 200
  - url: https://courses.iitm.ac.in/mod/lti/token.php
    status: 400
  - url: https://courses.iitm.ac.in/webservice/rest/server.php
    status: 200
  - url: https://backend.shoonya.ai4bharat.org/
    status: 200
  - url: https://backend.shoonya.ai4bharat.org/swagger/
    status: 200
  - url: https://backend.shoonya.ai4bharat.org/swagger.json
    status: 500
  - url: https://backend.shoonya.ai4bharat.org/task/
    status: 401
  - url: https://discourse.onlinedegree.iitm.ac.in/site.json
    status: 403
  - url: https://iitm.irins.org/
    status: 403
  - url: https://api.crossref.org/members/49493
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.ror.org/organizations?query=Indian+Institute+of+Technology+Madras
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.datacite.org/providers?query=Indian+Institute+of+Technology+Madras
    status: 200
  - url: https://webopac.iitm.ac.in/
    status: 200
  - url: https://ai4bharat.iitm.ac.in/
    status: 200
  - url: https://cerai.iitm.ac.in/
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.iitm.ac.in/privacy-policy
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.iitm.ac.in/happenings/press-releases-and-coverages
    status: 200
  - url: https://cenlib.iitm.ac.in/oai
    status: 404
  - url: https://webopac.iitm.ac.in/oai/request?verb=Identify
    status: 404
  - url: https://courses.iitm.ac.in/.well-known/openid-configuration
    status: 404
  - url: https://irepose.iitm.ac.in/
    status: 0
  - url: https://api.iitm.ac.in/
    status: 0
  - url: https://data.iitm.ac.in/
    status: 0