Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

aid: indian-institute-of-technology-kharagpur
name: Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
x-type: university
x-category: Institute of Technology
description: 'Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT KGP) is an Institute of National Importance in West Bengal, India
  — the first of the IITs, founded 1951, and ranked #222 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. It runs no developer portal,
  publishes no OpenAPI and issues no API keys, and this profile does not pretend otherwise. What it does operate, on its own
  iitkgp.ac.in hosts, are two unauthenticated machine surfaces found by probing rather than by documentation. The Central
  Library''s Institutional Digital Repository (DSpace 6.0, 8,162 items, the first IR among the IITs) exposes an OpenSearch
  1.1 description document and an Atom query endpoint at www.idr.iitkgp.ac.in/xmlui — served over plain HTTP only, with every
  identifier in the feed emitted as http://127.0.0.1/xmlui because dspace.baseUrl is misconfigured, and with no OAI-PMH provider,
  no DSpace REST API and no registered Handle prefix. The institute''s own ERP exposes a single public JAX-RS resource, /InfoCellDetails/resources/external/cepdata,
  which returns the brochure PDF for any Continuing Education Programme course by structured course_id; the institute homepage
  links it two hundred times, and it is the only endpoint on the estate that IIT Kharagpur itself wrote and left open. Everything
  else is gated or leased: the ERP behind a bespoke session SSO whose JAX-RS WADL 302s to a login page, the PARAM Shakti HPC
  allocation system behind its own login, the IRINS research-profile portal a tenant deployment on INFLIBNET''s Cloudflare-fronted
  platform, and the alumni network a tenant on AlmaConnect. No Shibboleth or SAML identity provider for iitkgp.ac.in exists
  anywhere in eduGAIN, including in India''s own INFED federation where peer IITs are registered; the institute is not a DataCite
  or Crossref member and mints no DOIs. Its one verifiable registry membership is ROR 03w5sq511. The institute website itself
  returns HTTP 200 with an Angular shell for /llms.txt, /.well-known/security.txt and /sitemap.xml alike, so none of those
  exist either.'
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
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/indian-institute-of-technology-kharagpur/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Institute of Technology
- India
- Research
- Research Repository
- Institutional Repository
- DSpace
- OpenSearch
- Course Catalog
- Research Computing
- Library
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-09-01'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: indian-institute-of-technology-kharagpur:idr-opensearch
  name: IIT Kharagpur Institutional Digital Repository OpenSearch Interface
  x-operator: institution
  description: 'OpenSearch 1.1 query interface over the Central Library''s Institutional Digital Repository, running DSpace
    6.0 self-hosted on the institute''s own www.idr.iitkgp.ac.in. Verified live 2026-09-01 — /xmlui/open-search/description.xml
    returns a 603-byte description document naming LongName "Central Library IIT Kharagpur" and Contact dspace-help@library.iitkgp.ac.in,
    an institution address on the institution''s own domain, and /xmlui/open-search/discover returns an Atom 1.0 feed carrying
    the opensearch: and dc: namespaces. The repository holds 8,162 items; query, format, start, rpp, sort_by, order and scope
    were each exercised and confirmed. DSpace is open-source software the institute installs and runs itself, not a vendor
    tenancy, so the host, the contact, the identifiers and the content are all IIT Kharagpur''s — but the software is shared
    by thousands of deployments, so the OpenAPI stored here is a derived description of THIS deployment''s observed behaviour,
    not a DSpace product contract. Three defects are recorded rather than smoothed over: the host has no TLS listener (https://
    fails, idr.iitkgp.ac.in does not resolve), every <id> and <link> in the feed is emitted with the authority http://127.0.0.1,
    and the handle prefix is the DSpace installation default 123456789, so no item carries a persistent identifier. No OAI-PMH
    provider, DSpace REST API or SWORD service document is deployed — the nginx front end proxies only /xmlui.'
  humanURL: http://www.idr.iitkgp.ac.in/xmlui/
  baseURL: http://www.idr.iitkgp.ac.in/xmlui/open-search/discover
  tags:
  - Research Repository
  - Institutional Repository
  - DSpace
  - OpenSearch
  - Atom
  - Dublin Core
  - Open Access
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/indian-institute-of-technology-kharagpur-idr-opensearch-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: http://www.idr.iitkgp.ac.in/xmlui/open-search/description.xml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/dewitt/opensearch/blob/master/opensearch-1-1-draft-6.md
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/indian-institute-of-technology-kharagpur-idr-opensearch-feed-schema.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/indian-institute-of-technology-kharagpur-idr-opensearch-atom.xml
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/indian-institute-of-technology-kharagpur-idr-opensearch-description.xml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/indian-institute-of-technology-kharagpur-authentication.yml
  - type: Errors
    url: errors/indian-institute-of-technology-kharagpur-errors.yml
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/indian-institute-of-technology-kharagpur-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/indian-institute-of-technology-kharagpur-vocabulary.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/indian-institute-of-technology-kharagpur-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/indian-institute-of-technology-kharagpur-conformance.yml
- aid: indian-institute-of-technology-kharagpur:erp-cep-brochures
  name: IIT Kharagpur ERP Continuing Education Programme Brochure Endpoint
  x-operator: institution
  description: 'The only unauthenticated endpoint on the IIT Kharagpur estate that the institute wrote itself. The ERP at
    erp.iitkgp.ac.in is a JAX-RS application on Apache Tomcat 8.0.51 behind a bespoke session SSO — /InfoCellDetails/resources/application.wadl
    302s to /SSOAdministration/login.htm and /InfoCellDetails/ returns 403 — but one resource namespace, /InfoCellDetails/resources/external/,
    is deliberately open, and the institute''s own homepage links a single operation in it, cepdata, two hundred times, once
    per Continuing Education Programme course. GET with a structured course_id returns the course brochure as application/pdf
    with no key, cookie or Referer required. Verified live 2026-09-01 against eight course_id values: five returned PDFs of
    74 KB to 2.25 MB, three returned HTTP 200 with Content-Type text/plain and a zero-byte body, which is also the response
    to an unknown course_id and to no course_id at all — there is no 404. Accept: application/json returns 406 with a Tomcat
    error page. This is a real course-catalog surface, small and undocumented, and it is institution engineering rather than
    a vendor''s.'
  humanURL: https://www.iitkgp.ac.in/
  baseURL: https://erp.iitkgp.ac.in/InfoCellDetails/resources/external/cepdata
  tags:
  - Course Catalog
  - Continuing Education
  - ERP
  - Documents
  - Undocumented
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/indian-institute-of-technology-kharagpur-erp-cep-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/indian-institute-of-technology-kharagpur-erp-cep-request-schema.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/indian-institute-of-technology-kharagpur-erp-cep-brochure-exchange.txt
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/indian-institute-of-technology-kharagpur-authentication.yml
  - type: Errors
    url: errors/indian-institute-of-technology-kharagpur-errors.yml
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/indian-institute-of-technology-kharagpur-rules.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/indian-institute-of-technology-kharagpur-lifecycle.yml
- aid: indian-institute-of-technology-kharagpur:irins
  name: IIT Kharagpur IRINS Research Profile Portal (INFLIBNET tenant)
  x-operator: tenant
  description: 'Indian Research Information Network System (IRINS) research-profile portal for IIT Kharagpur, operated by
    INFLIBNET — an autonomous inter-university centre of the UGC — at the institution-specific subdomain iitkgp.irins.org.
    The profiles, publications and affiliations are IIT Kharagpur''s; the platform, the software and any contract are INFLIBNET''s,
    and no IRINS specification is stored in this repository. Verified 2026-09-01: iitkgp.irins.org returns HTTP 403 with a
    Cloudflare "Just a moment..." challenge to every automated client, including one sending a full Chrome header set, as
    does irins.org itself. That is a live host refusing automation, not a dead one, so no machine-readable surface behind
    it could be assessed and INFLIBNET''s platform-level claims of ORCID, Scopus and Crossref ingestion are recorded as unverified
    rather than credited to the institution.'
  humanURL: https://iitkgp.irins.org/
  tags:
  - Research Information
  - CRIS
  - IRINS
  - INFLIBNET
  - Tenant
  - Bot Blocked
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://irins.inflibnet.ac.in/
- aid: indian-institute-of-technology-kharagpur:alumni-network
  name: IIT Kharagpur Alumni Network (AlmaConnect tenant)
  x-operator: tenant
  description: The alumni network at alumni.iitkgp.ac.in is an AlmaConnect deployment. The hostname is the institute's but
    the DNS record is a CNAME to alumni.iitkgp.ac.in.s3-website.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com, and the page served is an AlmaConnect
    single-page application (title "AlmaConnect", 2,464-byte shell, HTTP only — the https:// form times out). The alumni data
    is IIT Kharagpur's; the platform and its contract are AlmaConnect's, and none of it is stored here. Recorded as a tenant
    relationship because it is a real institutional fact, not because the institute engineered anything.
  humanURL: http://alumni.iitkgp.ac.in/
  tags:
  - Alumni
  - AlmaConnect
  - Tenant
  - CNAME Tenancy
- aid: indian-institute-of-technology-kharagpur:ror
  name: Research Organization Registry membership
  x-operator: registry
  description: 'IIT Kharagpur is registered in ROR as https://ror.org/03w5sq511, "Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur"
    (aliases IIT KGP, IIT Kharagpur), linked to http://www.iitkgp.ac.in/. Retrieved from https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations
    on 2026-09-01. This is a registry the institution is registered IN — a fact about it — not a contract it operates; ROR''s
    own API belongs to ROR and is not stored here. It is the institute''s only verifiable identifier registration: DataCite
    returns zero providers and zero clients for Kharagpur, Crossref returns zero members, and the repository''s handle prefix
    is the DSpace default.'
  humanURL: https://ror.org/03w5sq511
  tags:
  - Registry
  - Identifiers
  - ROR
  - Organization Identifier
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ror.readme.io/
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.iitkgp.ac.in/
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: http://www.idr.iitkgp.ac.in/xmlui/
- type: APIReference
  url: http://www.idr.iitkgp.ac.in/xmlui/open-search/description.xml
- type: CourseCatalog
  url: https://erp.iitkgp.ac.in/InfoCellDetails/resources/external/cepdata?course_id=IIT/CEP/CFC/CFC/2025-2026/HS/144
- type: ResearchComputing
  url: https://hpc.iitkgp.ac.in/
- type: LibraryCatalog
  url: https://library.iitkgp.ac.in/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://hpc.iitkgp.ac.in/privacy-policy
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/IIT-KGP
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/indian-institute-of-technology-kharagpur/
- type: ProductPage
  url: https://iitkgp.irins.org/
- type: ProductPage
  url: https://nptel.iitkgp.ac.in/
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/indian-institute-of-technology-kharagpur-conformance.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/indian-institute-of-technology-kharagpur-authentication.yml
- type: Errors
  url: errors/indian-institute-of-technology-kharagpur-errors.yml
- type: Rules
  url: rules/indian-institute-of-technology-kharagpur-rules.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/indian-institute-of-technology-kharagpur-vocabulary.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/indian-institute-of-technology-kharagpur-lifecycle.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/indian-institute-of-technology-kharagpur-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/indian-institute-of-technology-kharagpur-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/indian-institute-of-technology-kharagpur-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/indian-institute-of-technology-kharagpur-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: covered
  detail: 'Two institution-operated machine surfaces were found and verified live on 2026-09-01, neither of them documented
    by the institute: an OpenSearch 1.1 / Atom query interface over the self-hosted DSpace 6.0 Institutional Digital Repository
    at www.idr.iitkgp.ac.in, and a public JAX-RS document endpoint in the institute''s own ERP at erp.iitkgp.ac.in/InfoCellDetails/resources/external/cepdata
    that the homepage links 200 times. Both are unauthenticated and both are described here from probed behaviour, marked
    derived. Two vendor platforms are recorded as tenant relationships rather than as IIT Kharagpur contracts — IRINS/INFLIBNET
    (iitkgp.irins.org) and AlmaConnect (alumni.iitkgp.ac.in, a CNAME to an S3 website) — and no vendor spec is stored. One
    registry membership is evidenced: ROR 03w5sq511. The absences are as measured as the presences. There is no OAI-PMH provider:
    six conventional base URLs return 404 and the nginx front end proxies only /xmlui, so the repository cannot be harvested
    by OpenAIRE, BASE or Shodhganga. There is no Shibboleth or SAML identity provider for iitkgp.ac.in anywhere in the 10,616-entity
    eduGAIN export, including the 379 entities contributed by India''s own INFED federation where peer IITs such as IIT Hyderabad
    are registered; idp., sso., shibboleth. and parichay.iitkgp.ac.in do not resolve. DataCite returns zero providers and
    zero clients for Kharagpur, Crossref zero members, and the repository''s handle prefix is the DSpace installation default
    123456789 — so repository items carry no persistent identifier at all. Of the twelve education-regime domain standards,
    none is met; the conformance file records each with the negative probe that established it, alongside four non-regime
    standards that are met (OpenSearch 1.1, Atom 1.0, Dublin Core, ROR). No developer portal, no OpenAPI, no key issuance,
    no status page, no changelog and no .well-known directory exist. www.iitkgp.ac.in is an Angular SPA that returns HTTP
    200 with a 47,510-byte shell for /llms.txt, /.well-known/security.txt, /sitemap.xml, /privacy-policy and /terms-of-use
    alike: every one is a soft 404 and none is credited. The only privacy policy published anywhere on the estate is the HPC
    facility''s, at hpc.iitkgp.ac.in/privacy-policy. Student records, timetabling, enrolment and HPC allocation sit behind
    session SSO — the ERP''s JAX-RS WADL exists but 302s to a login page — and were not probeable. No support or helpdesk
    pointer is emitted: helpdesk. and support.iitkgp.ac.in do not resolve, /contact-us is another soft 404, and cic.iitkgp.ac.in
    serves a 529-byte SPA shell on every path.'
  generated: '2026-09-01'
  method: probed
  evidence:
  - url: http://www.idr.iitkgp.ac.in/xmlui/open-search/description.xml
    status: 200
  - url: http://www.idr.iitkgp.ac.in/xmlui/open-search/discover?query=machine+learning&format=atom
    status: 200
  - url: http://www.idr.iitkgp.ac.in/xmlui/open-search/discover?query=*&format=atom&rpp=1
    status: 200
  - url: http://www.idr.iitkgp.ac.in/xmlui/open-search/discover?query=rice&format=atom&start=10&rpp=5
    status: 200
  - url: http://www.idr.iitkgp.ac.in/xmlui/open-search/discover?query=rice&format=atom&scope=123456789/1&rpp=2
    status: 200
  - url: http://www.idr.iitkgp.ac.in/xmlui/feed/rss_2.0/site
    status: 200
  - url: http://www.idr.iitkgp.ac.in/xmlui/
    status: 200
  - url: http://www.idr.iitkgp.ac.in/oai/request?verb=Identify
    status: 404
  - url: http://www.idr.iitkgp.ac.in/dspace-oai/request?verb=Identify
    status: 404
  - url: http://www.idr.iitkgp.ac.in/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
    status: 404
  - url: http://www.idr.iitkgp.ac.in/xmlui/OAI/request?verb=Identify
    status: 404
  - url: http://www.idr.iitkgp.ac.in/rest/status
    status: 404
  - url: http://www.idr.iitkgp.ac.in/sword/servicedocument
    status: 404
  - url: https://erp.iitkgp.ac.in/InfoCellDetails/resources/external/cepdata?course_id=CEP/WRK/25-26/CD/2325
    status: 200
  - url: https://erp.iitkgp.ac.in/InfoCellDetails/resources/external/cepdata?course_id=IIT/CEP/CFC/CFC/2025-2026/HS/144
    status: 200
  - url: https://erp.iitkgp.ac.in/InfoCellDetails/resources/application.wadl
    status: 302
  - url: https://erp.iitkgp.ac.in/InfoCellDetails/
    status: 403
  - url: https://erp.iitkgp.ac.in/SSOAdministration/auth.htm
    status: 405
  - url: https://technical.edugain.org/api.php?action=list_entities&format=json
    status: 200
  - url: https://technical.edugain.org/api.php?action=list_feds&format=json
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.datacite.org/providers?query=Kharagpur
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.datacite.org/clients?query=Kharagpur
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.crossref.org/members?query=Kharagpur
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations?query=Indian%20Institute%20of%20Technology%20Kharagpur
    status: 200
  - url: https://iitkgp.irins.org/
    status: 403
  - url: https://irins.org/
    status: 403
  - url: http://alumni.iitkgp.ac.in/
    status: 200
  - url: https://hpc.iitkgp.ac.in/
    status: 200
  - url: https://hpc.iitkgp.ac.in/robots.txt
    status: 200
  - url: https://hpc.iitkgp.ac.in/sitemap.xml
    status: 200
  - url: https://hpc.iitkgp.ac.in/privacy-policy
    status: 200
  - url: https://paramshakti.iitkgp.ac.in/
    status: 403
  - url: https://www.iitkgp.ac.in/
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.iitkgp.ac.in/llms.txt
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.iitkgp.ac.in/.well-known/security.txt
    status: 200
  - url: https://library.iitkgp.ac.in/
    status: 200
  - url: https://github.com/IIT-KGP
    status: 200
  - url: https://nptel.iitkgp.ac.in/
    status: 200
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com