Interfolio
Interfolio is a Faculty Information System (now an Elsevier product) that helps colleges and universities manage the full faculty lifecycle: recruiting and hiring (Faculty Search), activity reporting and reviews (Faculty180 / Faculty Activity Reporting), review, promotion and tenure (RPT), lifecycle management, faculty web profiles, and the Dossier application service for individual academics. Interfolio exposes REST and GraphQL APIs for integrating faculty, activity, position, and review data with campus systems, secured with an HMAC public/private key mechanism scoped by tenant. Surfaced as a portfolio company of Insight Partners and enriched with real developer-surface artifacts.
Interfolio publishes 18 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Activities API, Activity Classifications API, Activity Input API, and 15 more. Tagged areas include Company, Education, Higher Education, Faculty Information System, and Faculty Activity Reporting.
The Interfolio catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
Interfolio’s developer surface includes getting-started guide, documentation, API reference, support, engineering blog, signup flow, authentication, and 24 more developer resources.
What this lets a business do 2
Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →
Kin Score
Markets this provider is in provisional
The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.
| Market | Position | Depth | Registered MCP server | Declares compatibility |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Higher Education and Research | standard | 17.2 (thin) | - | - |
Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.
Standards implemented 2
Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.
APIs 18
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Interfolio Core, Search & RPT API
REST and GraphQL APIs for the Interfolio Faculty Information System covering core Units, Faculty Search (Positions, Position Types/Status, Applications, Application Documents, R...
Interfolio Activities API
Retrieve details of Activities.
Interfolio Activity Classifications API
Retrieves details regarding activity classifications.
Interfolio Activity Input API
The Activity Input API from Interfolio — 2 operation(s) for activity input.
Interfolio Courses API
Retrieve details of Courses (Prefixes, Courses Taught, Attachments).
Interfolio Download Attachments API
Retrieves an attachment.
Interfolio Emails API
Email requests.
Interfolio Evaluations API
Retrieve details of users' evaluations.
Interfolio Faculty Classifications API
Retrieve details of Faculty Classifications.
Interfolio FAQ API
Retrieves frequently asked questions.
Interfolio Permissions API
Retrieve details of users' permissions.
Interfolio Sections API
Retrieve details of Sections.
Interfolio SSO API
The SSO API from Interfolio — 1 operation(s) for sso.
Interfolio Terms API
Retrieve details of academic terms.
Interfolio Units API
Create & retrieve details of academic units.
Interfolio User Data API
Retrieves a users activity information.
Interfolio Users API
Create, update and retreive details of users.
Interfolio Vitas API
Retrieve details of users' vitaes.
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Agent Skills 2
Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.
faculty-activity-export
AGENT SKILLmanage-courses-taught
AGENT SKILLInterfolio API pricing
Pricing Plans 1
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Interfolio Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSSpectral Rules 1
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
Interfolio API Rules
SPECTRALOpenAPI Overlays 1
Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.
Interfolio Faculty180 Overlay
UNRECORDEDSecurity Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Get Started 4
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 3
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 7
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 4
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
Source (apis.yml)
Interfolio API — frequently asked questions
Does Interfolio have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 18 APIs from Interfolio, including Interfolio Core, Search & RPT API, Interfolio Activities API and Interfolio Activity Classifications API, and 15 more.
Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Interfolio API?
Yes. APIs.io indexes 17 OpenAPI specifications for Interfolio, each linked for download from this page.
How do I authenticate with the Interfolio API?
Interfolio documents its authentication (hmac · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Interfolio Authentication.
Is the Interfolio API ready for AI agents?
Interfolio has a Kin Score of 40.9 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 40.3 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.
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