King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM) is a public research university in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Its programmable footprint is small, and most of what previously appeared in this profile was not its own: 37 OpenAPI definitions attributed to KFUPM here were the Elsevier Pure Web Services contract (info.title "Pure API", contact pure-support@elsevier.com, version 5.35.3-4) served from the university's Pure tenant at pure.kfupm.edu.sa. That contract is Elsevier's and has been removed; the tenant relationship is recorded instead. What KFUPM genuinely operates is three surfaces on its own infrastructure. Its identity provider at sts.kfupm.edu.sa publishes signed SAML 2.0 federation metadata and an OpenID Connect discovery document, and is registered in eduGAIN through MAEEN, the Saudi identity federation, with scope kfupm.edu.sa — an institution-operated machine-readable surface by definition. The KFUPM ePrints repository (EPrints 3.4.1) serves a live, unauthenticated OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting interface with six working verbs and six metadata formats, plus record-level and search-level JSON export whose record model carries a KFUPM-local `arabic_abstract` field. The registrar publishes a live course offering system, but it answers only an HTML form POST and returns no machine-readable format. There is no central developer portal, no API documentation, no changelog, no status page, no robots.txt, no sitemap and no llms.txt on the university's own domain. The library discovery surface sits behind a Cloudflare bot challenge. KFUPM does not publish an OpenAPI for anything it operates; the three descriptions in this repo were derived by probing the live endpoints.
King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals publishes 6 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Discovery API, Export API, Oai Pmh API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include University, Higher Education, Education, Research, and Saudi Arabia.
King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals’ developer surface includes engineering blog, authentication, and 21 more developer resources.
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Education & Research regime, so
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carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts
themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already
holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in
front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created.
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not penalised by it.
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KFUPM runs an Elsevier Pure research information system at pure.kfupm.edu.sa and its Pure Web Services REST API is reachable at /ws/api, authenticated with a Pure api-key header...
aid: kfupm
name: King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
description: 'King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM) is a public research university in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
Its programmable footprint is small, and most of what previously appeared in this profile was not its own: 37 OpenAPI definitions
attributed to KFUPM here were the Elsevier Pure Web Services contract (info.title "Pure API", contact pure-support@elsevier.com,
version 5.35.3-4) served from the university''s Pure tenant at pure.kfupm.edu.sa. That contract is Elsevier''s and has been
removed; the tenant relationship is recorded instead.
What KFUPM genuinely operates is three surfaces on its own infrastructure. Its identity provider at sts.kfupm.edu.sa publishes
signed SAML 2.0 federation metadata and an OpenID Connect discovery document, and is registered in eduGAIN through MAEEN,
the Saudi identity federation, with scope kfupm.edu.sa — an institution-operated machine-readable surface by definition.
The KFUPM ePrints repository (EPrints 3.4.1) serves a live, unauthenticated OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting interface with six working
verbs and six metadata formats, plus record-level and search-level JSON export whose record model carries a KFUPM-local
`arabic_abstract` field. The registrar publishes a live course offering system, but it answers only an HTML form POST and
returns no machine-readable format.
There is no central developer portal, no API documentation, no changelog, no status page, no robots.txt, no sitemap and
no llms.txt on the university''s own domain. The library discovery surface sits behind a Cloudflare bot challenge. KFUPM
does not publish an OpenAPI for anything it operates; the three descriptions in this repo were derived by probing the live
endpoints.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
model: self-hosted
open_source: false
commercial: false
callable_host: true
label: Institution-operated endpoints · you call their host
confidence: high
source:
- probed
generated: '2026-08-30'
method: probed
accessModel:
pricing: free
onboarding: none
trial: false
try_now: true
public: true
label: Free · No signup, no developer portal
confidence: high
source:
- probed
- authentication
generated: '2026-08-30'
method: probed
position: Consuming
access: Public
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/kfupm.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kfupm/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- University
- Higher Education
- Education
- Research
- Saudi Arabia
- Middle East
- Identity Federation
- Research Repository
- Open Access
- OAI-PMH
- Theses
- Course Catalog
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-30'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: kfupm:pure-tenant
name: KFUPM Elsevier Pure Web Services (tenant deployment)
x-operator: tenant
x-vendor: Elsevier
x-vendor-product: Pure (Pure API 5.35.3-4)
description: KFUPM runs an Elsevier Pure research information system at pure.kfupm.edu.sa and its Pure Web Services REST
API is reachable at /ws/api, authenticated with a Pure api-key header. The deployment, the tenant and the research data
are KFUPM's; the contract is Elsevier's. Its OpenAPI declares info.title "Pure API", contact pure-support@elsevier.com
and version 5.35.3-4 — the same document at least nine other universities in this catalog were also credited with. It
is recorded here as a relationship and is deliberately NOT saved as a KFUPM contract. Score the interface against Elsevier's
own repo. Pure administration is itself fronted by KFUPM's SAML IdP (/admin/saml2/authenticate/pure).
humanURL: https://pure.kfupm.edu.sa/
baseURL: https://pure.kfupm.edu.sa/ws/api
tags:
- Research Information
- CRI
- Tenants
- Vendor Contract
- Elsevier Pure
tags_raw:
- Research Information
- CRIS
- Tenant
- Vendor Contract
- Elsevier Pure
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://pure.kfupm.edu.sa/ws/api/
- type: ResearchPortal
url: https://pure.kfupm.edu.sa/
- type: OAI-PMH
url: https://pure.kfupm.edu.sa/ws/oai
name: Pure OAI-PMH endpoint — live and unauthenticated, repositoryName "Pure OAI Repository", adminEmail pure.admin@kfupm.edu.sa,
OpenAIRE CERIF 1.2 profile. Elsevier's implementation on KFUPM's tenant, so it is recorded here rather than credited
as institutional conformance.
- aid: kfupm:kfupm-discovery-api
name: King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals Discovery API
description: Unauthenticated metadata endpoints. All three fetched live 2026-08-30.
humanURL: https://www.kfupm.edu.sa/
baseURL: https://sts.kfupm.edu.sa
tags:
- Discovery
tags_raw:
- discovery
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/kfupm-discovery-api-openapi.yml
- type: Metadata
url: https://sts.kfupm.edu.sa/FederationMetadata/2007-06/FederationMetadata.xml
- type: OpenIDConnectDiscovery
url: https://sts.kfupm.edu.sa/adfs/.well-known/openid-configuration
- type: JWKS
url: https://sts.kfupm.edu.sa/adfs/discovery/keys
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/kfupm-authentication.yml
- type: Scopes
url: scopes/kfupm-scopes.yml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/kfupm-conformance.yml
- type: Examples
url: examples/kfupm-sts-openid-configuration.json
- type: Vocabulary
url: vocabulary/kfupm-vocabulary.yml
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/kfupm-lifecycle.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://eprints.kfupm.edu.sa/
- type: Examples
url: examples/kfupm-eprints-oai-identify.xml
- type: Examples
url: examples/kfupm-eprints-oai-getrecord.xml
- type: Errors
url: errors/kfupm-errors.yml
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/kfupm-eprints-record-schema.json
- aid: kfupm:kfupm-export-api
name: King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals Export API
description: Record-level export in a named format.
humanURL: https://www.kfupm.edu.sa/
baseURL: https://sts.kfupm.edu.sa
tags:
- Export
tags_raw:
- export
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/kfupm-export-api-openapi.yml
- type: Metadata
url: https://sts.kfupm.edu.sa/FederationMetadata/2007-06/FederationMetadata.xml
- type: OpenIDConnectDiscovery
url: https://sts.kfupm.edu.sa/adfs/.well-known/openid-configuration
- type: JWKS
url: https://sts.kfupm.edu.sa/adfs/discovery/keys
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/kfupm-authentication.yml
- type: Scopes
url: scopes/kfupm-scopes.yml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/kfupm-conformance.yml
- type: Examples
url: examples/kfupm-sts-openid-configuration.json
- type: Vocabulary
url: vocabulary/kfupm-vocabulary.yml
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/kfupm-lifecycle.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://eprints.kfupm.edu.sa/
- type: Examples
url: examples/kfupm-eprints-oai-identify.xml
- type: Examples
url: examples/kfupm-eprints-oai-getrecord.xml
- type: Errors
url: errors/kfupm-errors.yml
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/kfupm-eprints-record-schema.json
- aid: kfupm:kfupm-oai-pmh-api
name: King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals Oai Pmh API
description: OAI-PMH 2.0 protocol requests. All six verbs verified live 2026-08-30.
humanURL: https://eprints.kfupm.edu.sa/
baseURL: https://eprints.kfupm.edu.sa/cgi/oai2
tags:
- OAI-PMH
tags_raw:
- oai-pmh
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/kfupm-oai-pmh-api-openapi.yml
- type: Metadata
url: https://sts.kfupm.edu.sa/FederationMetadata/2007-06/FederationMetadata.xml
- type: OpenIDConnectDiscovery
url: https://sts.kfupm.edu.sa/adfs/.well-known/openid-configuration
- type: JWKS
url: https://sts.kfupm.edu.sa/adfs/discovery/keys
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/kfupm-authentication.yml
- type: Scopes
url: scopes/kfupm-scopes.yml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/kfupm-conformance.yml
- type: Examples
url: examples/kfupm-sts-openid-configuration.json
- type: Vocabulary
url: vocabulary/kfupm-vocabulary.yml
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/kfupm-lifecycle.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://eprints.kfupm.edu.sa/
- type: Examples
url: examples/kfupm-eprints-oai-identify.xml
- type: Examples
url: examples/kfupm-eprints-oai-getrecord.xml
- type: Errors
url: errors/kfupm-errors.yml
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/kfupm-eprints-record-schema.json
- aid: kfupm:kfupm-search-api
name: King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals Search API
description: Free-text search with a machine-readable output format.
humanURL: https://www.kfupm.edu.sa/
baseURL: https://sts.kfupm.edu.sa
tags:
- Search
tags_raw:
- search
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/kfupm-search-api-openapi.yml
- type: Metadata
url: https://sts.kfupm.edu.sa/FederationMetadata/2007-06/FederationMetadata.xml
- type: OpenIDConnectDiscovery
url: https://sts.kfupm.edu.sa/adfs/.well-known/openid-configuration
- type: JWKS
url: https://sts.kfupm.edu.sa/adfs/discovery/keys
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/kfupm-authentication.yml
- type: Scopes
url: scopes/kfupm-scopes.yml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/kfupm-conformance.yml
- type: Examples
url: examples/kfupm-sts-openid-configuration.json
- type: Vocabulary
url: vocabulary/kfupm-vocabulary.yml
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/kfupm-lifecycle.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://eprints.kfupm.edu.sa/
- type: Examples
url: examples/kfupm-eprints-oai-identify.xml
- type: Examples
url: examples/kfupm-eprints-oai-getrecord.xml
- type: Errors
url: errors/kfupm-errors.yml
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/kfupm-eprints-record-schema.json
- aid: kfupm:kfupm-oauth2-api
name: King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals Oauth2 API
description: OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect endpoints as declared by KFUPM's own discovery document.
humanURL: https://pure.kfupm.edu.sa/
baseURL: https://pure.kfupm.edu.sa/ws/api
tags:
- Authentication
tags_raw:
- oauth2
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/kfupm-oauth2-api-openapi.yml
- type: Metadata
url: https://sts.kfupm.edu.sa/FederationMetadata/2007-06/FederationMetadata.xml
- type: OpenIDConnectDiscovery
url: https://sts.kfupm.edu.sa/adfs/.well-known/openid-configuration
- type: JWKS
url: https://sts.kfupm.edu.sa/adfs/discovery/keys
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/kfupm-authentication.yml
- type: Scopes
url: scopes/kfupm-scopes.yml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/kfupm-conformance.yml
- type: Examples
url: examples/kfupm-sts-openid-configuration.json
- type: Vocabulary
url: vocabulary/kfupm-vocabulary.yml
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/kfupm-lifecycle.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://eprints.kfupm.edu.sa/
- type: Examples
url: examples/kfupm-eprints-oai-identify.xml
- type: Examples
url: examples/kfupm-eprints-oai-getrecord.xml
- type: Errors
url: errors/kfupm-errors.yml
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/kfupm-eprints-record-schema.json
common:
- type: Website
url: https://www.kfupm.edu.sa/
- type: TermsOfService
url: https://www.kfupm.edu.sa/terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
url: https://www.kfupm.edu.sa/privacy-policy
- type: Blog
url: https://news.kfupm.edu.sa/
- type: LinkedIn
url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/kfupm/
- type: IdentityFederation
url: https://sts.kfupm.edu.sa/FederationMetadata/2007-06/FederationMetadata.xml
name: KFUPM SAML 2.0 identity provider metadata (eduGAIN via MAEEN)
- type: ResearchRepository
url: https://eprints.kfupm.edu.sa/
name: KFUPM ePrints — self-hosted EPrints 3.4.1 institutional repository
- type: ResearchPortal
url: https://pure.kfupm.edu.sa/
name: KFUPM Research Portal — Elsevier Pure tenant
- type: CourseCatalog
url: https://registrar.kfupm.edu.sa/courses-classes/course-offering1/
name: KFUPM course offering — institution-operated, HTML form POST only, no machine-readable format
- type: LibraryCatalog
url: https://library-web.kfupm.edu.sa/
name: KFUPM Library web — reachable (200). No documented public API or discovery endpoint found. The library.kfupm.edu.sa
host is live but returns 403 behind a Cloudflare bot challenge.
- type: AITooling
url: https://www.kfupm.edu.sa/about-us/discover/ai-x
name: KFUPM AI+X — institutional AI programme, including ChatGPT Edu deployment
- type: GitHubOrganization
url: https://github.com/KFUPM-OSC
name: KFUPM Open Source Club — student-run, 2 public repositories
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/kfupm-authentication.yml
- type: Scopes
url: scopes/kfupm-scopes.yml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/kfupm-conformance.yml
- type: Errors
url: errors/kfupm-errors.yml
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/kfupm-lifecycle.yml
- type: Vocabulary
url: vocabulary/kfupm-vocabulary.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/kfupm-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
url: plans/kfupm-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
url: rate-limits/kfupm-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
url: finops/kfupm-finops.yml
- type: Review
url: review.yml
x-coverage:
state: covered
reason: covered
detail: 'Three institution-operated surfaces were found, probed and described: a SAML 2.0 + OpenID Connect identity provider
registered in eduGAIN via MAEEN, a live OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint on a self-hosted EPrints repository, and unauthenticated
JSON record export and search on the same repository. None of them was previously in this profile. What WAS in this profile
— 37 OpenAPIs and 37 apis[] entries — was one Elsevier Pure contract served from the university''s Pure tenant; it has
been removed and the tenant recorded once instead. KFUPM publishes no developer portal, no API documentation, no OpenAPI,
no changelog, no status page, no robots.txt, no sitemap and no llms.txt on its own domain; the three OpenAPI descriptions
in this repo are derived from live probes and are marked as such. Two further institution-operated surfaces exist but
are not machine-readable: the registrar course offering system answers only an HTML form POST, and library.kfupm.edu.sa
is live behind a Cloudflare bot challenge. Expect this re-profile to lower KFUPM''s score — the previous score was largely
Elsevier''s contract quality.'
generated: '2026-08-30'
method: probed
evidence:
- url: https://sts.kfupm.edu.sa/FederationMetadata/2007-06/FederationMetadata.xml
status: 200
note: application/samlmetadata+xml, 80232 bytes, entityID http://sts.kfupm.edu.sa/adfs/services/trust
- url: https://sts.kfupm.edu.sa/adfs/.well-known/openid-configuration
status: 200
note: OIDC discovery, issuer https://sts.kfupm.edu.sa/adfs
- url: https://sts.kfupm.edu.sa/adfs/discovery/keys
status: 200
note: JWKS, 2 RSA RS256 signing keys
- url: https://technical.edugain.org/api.php?action=list_entities&format=json
status: 200
note: eduGAIN entity 671205, regauth https://www.maeen.sa, code SA-MIF, scope kfupm.edu.sa
- url: https://eprints.kfupm.edu.sa/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify
status: 200
note: OAI-PMH 2.0, KFUPM ePrints, EPrints 3.4.1
- url: https://eprints.kfupm.edu.sa/cgi/oai2?verb=ListMetadataFormats
status: 200
note: didl, mets, oai_bibl, oai_dc, rdf, uketd_dc
- url: https://eprints.kfupm.edu.sa/cgi/oai2?verb=GetRecord&identifier=oai:eprints.kfupm.edu.sa:144629&metadataPrefix=oai_dc
status: 200
- url: https://eprints.kfupm.edu.sa/cgi/oai2?verb=Bogus
status: 200
note: protocol error badVerb/badArgument returned with HTTP 200
- url: https://eprints.kfupm.edu.sa/cgi/export/eprint/144629/JSON/kfupm-eprint-144629.js
status: 200
note: application/json, 14167 bytes
- url: https://eprints.kfupm.edu.sa/cgi/search/simple?q=petroleum&output=JSON
status: 200
note: application/json, 287836 bytes
- url: https://pure.kfupm.edu.sa/ws/api/
status: 200
note: '"Pure API documentation" — Elsevier product docs on a KFUPM tenant subdomain'
- url: https://registrar.kfupm.edu.sa/courses-classes/course-offering1/
status: 200
note: course offering form; POST /course-offerings returns HTML only, no JSON
- url: https://library.kfupm.edu.sa/
status: 403
note: live, Cloudflare bot challenge — machine-unreadable, not dead
- url: https://www.kfupm.edu.sa/robots.txt
status: 404
note: no robots.txt, no sitemap.xml, no llms.txt
- url: https://pure.kfupm.edu.sa/ws/api/524/openapi.json
status: 401
note: '''Request not authorized. Please provide a valid API key for access.'' The Pure OpenAPI on this tenant is NOT publicly
fetchable — the 37 specs previously in this repo could not have come from KFUPM''s host.'
- url: https://pure.kfupm.edu.sa/ws/oai?verb=Identify
status: 200
note: Pure's own OAI-PMH endpoint, unauthenticated. repositoryName 'Pure OAI Repository', adminEmail pure.admin@kfupm.edu.sa,
OpenAIRE CERIF 1.2. Tenant-operated.
- url: https://library-web.kfupm.edu.sa/
status: 200
note: KFUPM Library web; no documented public API found
- url: https://github.com/kfupm
status: 200
note: empty unverified GitHub org — 0 public repos, no description, untouched since 2019. Removed as a pointer; ownership
by the university is unevidenced.
- url: https://www.kfupm.edu.sa/terms-of-use
status: 200
- url: https://www.kfupm.edu.sa/privacy-policy
status: 200
- url: https://www.kfupm.edu.sa/about-us/discover/ai-x
status: 200
- url: https://github.com/KFUPM-OSC
status: 200
note: student Open Source Club, 2 public repositories
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