The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom, a member of the Russell Group and the University of London, ranked in the QS World University Rankings top 40 and specialised in the social sciences. LSE operates no public developer portal, no open data portal, no course-catalog or timetable API, and no official GitHub organisation — github.com/lse is an unrelated systems-programming lab. Re-profiled on 2026-08-19 against the operator axis, its genuinely institution-operated machine-readable footprint is two things: a SAML2 Shibboleth identity provider registered in the UK Access Management Federation under entityID https://lse.ac.uk/idp, and an IMS LTI 1.3 platform on its own Moodle VLE serving a live JWKS, OAuth 2.0 token endpoint and OIDC authorization endpoint. Everything else that appears to be an LSE API is a vendor contract running under an LSE tenancy — EPrints Services hosts the research repository, Ex Libris Primo VE the library discovery layer, Quartex the digital library, Epexio the archive catalogue, and DataCite the DOI registration. Those tenancies are real institutional facts and are recorded as such; the contracts behind them belong to the vendors, not to LSE.
London School of Economics and Political Science publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network: LTI API. Tagged areas include University, Higher Education, Education, United Kingdom, and Russell Group.
The London School of Economics and Political Science catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.
London School of Economics and Political Science’s developer surface includes authentication, engineering blog, and 20 more developer resources.
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LSE operates its own SAML2 Shibboleth identity provider for staff, students and library resource access, registered in the UK Access Management Federation under entityID https:/...
LSE Research Online is LSE's institutional repository — LSE's research outputs, LSE's metadata, LSE's registered OAI-PMH base URL and admin contact (lseresearchonline@lse.ac.uk)...
LSE library discovery runs on Ex Libris Primo VE at librarysearch.lse.ac.uk, which CNAMEs to lse.primo.exlibrisgroup.com and then eu00.primo.exlibrisgroup.com, under LSE's insti...
The LSE Digital Library publishes digitised and born-digital material from LSE Library collections. The host CNAMEs to lse.custom.url.quartexcollections.com, an LSE tenancy on A...
The LSE Library archive catalogue at archives.lse.ac.uk runs on Epexio, a hosted archival discovery platform, served from AWS behind a certificate issued to LSE's own hostname. ...
LSE is a registered DataCite provider — member identifier lcqr, "London School of Economics", memberType consortium_organization, region EMEA, registered 2020-09-01, linked to R...
aid: lse
name: London School of Economics and Political Science
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
description: 'The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a public research university in London, United
Kingdom, a member of the Russell Group and the University of London, ranked in the QS World University Rankings top 40 and
specialised in the social sciences. LSE operates no public developer portal, no open data portal, no course-catalog or timetable
API, and no official GitHub organisation — github.com/lse is an unrelated systems-programming lab. Re-profiled on 2026-08-19
against the operator axis, its genuinely institution-operated machine-readable footprint is two things: a SAML2 Shibboleth
identity provider registered in the UK Access Management Federation under entityID https://lse.ac.uk/idp, and an IMS LTI
1.3 platform on its own Moodle VLE serving a live JWKS, OAuth 2.0 token endpoint and OIDC authorization endpoint. Everything
else that appears to be an LSE API is a vendor contract running under an LSE tenancy — EPrints Services hosts the research
repository, Ex Libris Primo VE the library discovery layer, Quartex the digital library, Epexio the archive catalogue, and
DataCite the DOI registration. Those tenancies are real institutional facts and are recorded as such; the contracts behind
them belong to the vendors, not to LSE.'
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/lse.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lse/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-api-posture: no-product-api
x-api-posture-basis: observed
tags:
- University
- Higher Education
- Education
- United Kingdom
- Russell Group
- Social Sciences
- Identity Federation
- Learning Management
- Research Repository
- Library
- Open Research
- OAI-PMH
- SAML
- LTI
- IIIF
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
x-coverage:
state: covered
reason: institution_operates_minimal_public_surface
detail: 'LSE was fully probed on 2026-08-19 and the profile is thin because the institution is thin, not because the probe
failed. Twelve candidate hosts were resolved and fetched: api., data., developer. and opendata.lse.ac.uk do not exist
(NXDOMAIN); www.lse.ac.uk publishes no llms.txt and no security.txt; there is no course-catalog or timetable API behind
the programme search; there is no official GitHub organisation. Two institution-operated surfaces were found and verified
live — the Shibboleth IdP and the Moodle LTI 1.3 platform — and five vendor tenancies were confirmed by DNS CNAME or platform
fingerprint. Two negative findings are recorded deliberately: LSE''s UKAMF-published POST-SimpleSign SSO endpoint has
a doubled host that does not resolve, and a second LSE federation entity self-labels "Test IdP - DO NOT USE" and is excluded
from the surface inventory as a placeholder. The EPrints search and export endpoints are behind a Cloudflare challenge
and Apache auth respectively — live but not readable, which is a gate, not an absence.'
evidence:
- url: https://www.lse.ac.uk/
status: 200
- url: https://gate.library.lse.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth
status: 200
- url: https://moodle.lse.ac.uk/mod/lti/certs.php
status: 200
- url: https://moodle.lse.ac.uk/mod/lti/token.php
status: 400
- url: https://moodle.lse.ac.uk/auth/saml2/sp/metadata.php
status: 200
- url: https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify
status: 200
- url: https://librarysearch.lse.ac.uk/discovery/search?vid=44LSE_INST
status: 200
- url: https://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/about
status: 200
- url: https://archives.lse.ac.uk/api
status: 200
- url: https://api.datacite.org/providers/lcqr
status: 200
- url: https://www.lse.ac.uk/llms.txt
status: 404
- url: https://www.lse.ac.uk/.well-known/security.txt
status: 404
- url: https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/cgi/search?q=brexit&output=JSON
status: 403
- url: https://api.lse.ac.uk/
status: 0
- url: https://data.lse.ac.uk/
status: 0
- url: https://idp.lse.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth
status: 0
generated: '2026-08-19'
method: probed
apis:
- aid: lse:identity-federation
name: LSE Shibboleth Identity Provider (UK Access Management Federation)
x-operator: institution
description: LSE operates its own SAML2 Shibboleth identity provider for staff, students and library resource access, registered
in the UK Access Management Federation under entityID https://lse.ac.uk/idp with the scope lse.ac.uk. The IdP metadata
is published as machine-readable XML and returned 200 on 2026-08-19, listing HTTP-Redirect, HTTP-POST and HTTP-POST-SimpleSign
SSO bindings plus SAML1 and SAML2 SOAP artifact resolution on port 8443. This is the clearest institution-operated programmable
surface LSE has — identity federation is institution-operated by definition. One published Location is malformed (gate.library.lse.ac.uk.lse.ac.uk,
NXDOMAIN); a second LSE entity registered at idp.lse.ac.uk self-labels "Test IdP - DO NOT USE" and is not recorded here.
humanURL: https://www.lse.ac.uk/
baseURL: https://gate.library.lse.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth
tags:
- Identity
- Identity Federation
- SAML
- Shibboleth
- SSO
- UKAMF
properties:
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/lse-authentication.yml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/lse-domain-standards.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.ukfederation.org.uk/
- aid: lse:research-online-oai
name: LSE Research Online (EPrints, OAI-PMH)
x-operator: tenant
description: 'LSE Research Online is LSE''s institutional repository — LSE''s research outputs, LSE''s metadata, LSE''s
registered OAI-PMH base URL and admin contact (lseresearchonline@lse.ac.uk). It is not LSE''s engineering: the host CNAMEs
to lse-eprints-cs.com, EPrints Services'' managed hosting, and the software self-reports as EPrints 3.4.6. The OAI-PMH
2.0 interface returned a valid Identify response on 2026-08-19 (it was returning HTTP 500 at the June 2026 review and
has since recovered), with deletedRecord=persistent and earliestDatestamp 2010-10-01. Item-level export returns 401 and
the search endpoint is behind a Cloudflare challenge. The Identify response still carries EPrints'' default unconfigured
rights text, so harvesters are told to assume no rights are granted.'
humanURL: https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/
baseURL: https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
tags:
- Research Repository
- OAI-PMH
- Open Research
- EPrints
- Metadata
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
- type: Registry
url: https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100011218
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/lse-domain-standards.yml
- aid: lse:library-search
name: LSE Library Search (Ex Libris Primo VE / Alma)
x-operator: tenant
description: LSE library discovery runs on Ex Libris Primo VE at librarysearch.lse.ac.uk, which CNAMEs to lse.primo.exlibrisgroup.com
and then eu00.primo.exlibrisgroup.com, under LSE's institutional view identifier vid=44LSE_INST. Programmatic access (Primo
Search/PNX, Alma REST) follows the Ex Libris developer model and is governed by LSE's institutional configuration and
credentials. The tenancy is LSE's; the API contract is Ex Libris'. The June 2026 profile recorded this surface against
www.lse.ac.uk, which misattributed a vendor platform to the institution's own host; corrected 2026-08-19.
humanURL: https://librarysearch.lse.ac.uk/discovery/search?vid=44LSE_INST
baseURL: https://librarysearch.lse.ac.uk/discovery/
tags:
- Library
- Library Catalog
- Discovery
- Alma
- Primo
- Ex Libris
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.lse.ac.uk/library/using-the-library/catalogues
- type: Documentation
url: https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/
- aid: lse:digital-library
name: LSE Digital Library (Quartex — IIIF / OAI-PMH)
x-operator: tenant
description: The LSE Digital Library publishes digitised and born-digital material from LSE Library collections. The host
CNAMEs to lse.custom.url.quartexcollections.com, an LSE tenancy on Adam Matthew Digital's Quartex platform, and all assets
and service endpoints resolve to *.quartexcollections.com. The About page states IIIF manifests are available per item
and that metadata can be downloaded at scale via OAI-PMH, directing large-scale users to library.enquiries@lse.ac.uk.
No OAI-PMH base URL is published — /oai and /OAI on this host return the site's SPA shell with HTTP 200, which is a soft-404,
not an endpoint. The collection is LSE's; the platform, the manifests and the APIs are Quartex's.
humanURL: https://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/about
baseURL: https://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/
tags:
- Library
- Digital Collections
- IIIF
- OAI-PMH
- Metadata
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/about
- aid: lse:archives-catalogue
name: LSE Archives Catalogue (Epexio)
x-operator: tenant
description: The LSE Library archive catalogue at archives.lse.ac.uk runs on Epexio, a hosted archival discovery platform,
served from AWS behind a certificate issued to LSE's own hostname. The page markup carries the epexio-discover fingerprint
and /api returns a live JSON health response. No public API documentation, schema or OAI-PMH endpoint was found for this
surface — /oai returns 404. Recorded because the tenancy is a real institutional fact; not credited as an LSE contract.
humanURL: https://archives.lse.ac.uk/
baseURL: https://archives.lse.ac.uk/api
tags:
- Library
- Archives
- Discovery
- Epexio
- Metadata
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://archives.lse.ac.uk/
- aid: lse:datacite-doi
name: LSE DOI Registration (DataCite)
x-operator: tenant
description: 'LSE is a registered DataCite provider — member identifier lcqr, "London School of Economics", memberType consortium_organization,
region EMEA, registered 2020-09-01, linked to ROR https://ror.org/0090zs177. Three repositories mint DOIs under it: bl.lse
(institutional), lcqr.lsedl (LSE Digital Library) and lcqr.plmezb (Houghton St Press). The registration and the minted
identifiers are LSE''s; the API that exposes them is DataCite''s, so this is recorded as a tenancy rather than an LSE-operated
interface. It is nonetheless one of the few genuinely machine-queryable facts about LSE''s research output.'
humanURL: https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/information.html
baseURL: https://api.datacite.org/providers/lcqr
tags:
- Research Repository
- DataCite
- DOI
- Persistent Identifiers
- Open Research
properties:
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/lse-domain-standards.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://support.datacite.org/docs/api
- aid: lse:lse-lti-api
name: London School of Economics and Political Science LTI API
description: IMS Global Learning Tools Interoperability 1.3 / LTI Advantage platform endpoints.
humanURL: https://www.lse.ac.uk/
baseURL: https://gate.library.lse.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth
tags:
- LTI
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/lse-lti-api-openapi.yml
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/lse-lti-jwks-schema.json
- type: Examples
url: examples/lse-lti-jwks-response.json
- type: Errors
url: errors/lse-errors.yml
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/lse-authentication.yml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/lse-domain-standards.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://moodle.lse.ac.uk/auth/saml2/sp/metadata.php
common:
- type: Website
url: https://www.lse.ac.uk/
- type: TermsOfService
url: https://www.lse.ac.uk/lse-information/terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
url: https://www.lse.ac.uk/lse-information/privacy-policy
- type: IdentityFederation
url: https://gate.library.lse.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth
- type: ResearchRepository
url: https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/
- type: LibraryCatalog
url: https://librarysearch.lse.ac.uk/discovery/search?vid=44LSE_INST
- type: AIPolicy
url: https://info.lse.ac.uk/staff/divisions/Eden-Centre/Artificial-Intelligence-Education-and-Assessment/School-position-on-generative-AI
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/lse-authentication.yml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/lse-domain-standards.yml
- type: Vocabulary
url: vocabulary/lse-vocabulary.yml
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/lse-lifecycle.yml
- type: Errors
url: errors/lse-errors.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/lse-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/the-london-school-of-economics-and-political-science/
- type: Twitter
url: https://twitter.com/LSEnews
- type: Plans
url: plans/lse-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
url: rate-limits/lse-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
url: finops/lse-finops.yml
- type: Review
url: review.yml
- type: Blog
url: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/
- type: BlogRSS
url: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/feed/
- type: JSONLD
url: json-ld/lse-context.jsonld
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