McGill University

McGill University is a public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, ranked #64 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-readable developer footprint is centered on research-data infrastructure rather than a unified developer portal: the McGill University Dataverse is published through the Borealis (Scholars Portal) Dataverse platform, which exposes the full Dataverse Native and Search REST APIs over the McGill collection. Identity is federated through a Shibboleth SAML single sign-on service. Most other institutional systems (course catalogue, Minerva/Banner registration, library discovery) are gated behind authentication or web UIs and do not publish open, documented public APIs.

McGill University publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: Dataverses API, Info API, and Search API. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Research Data, and Open Data.

The McGill University catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

McGill University’s developer surface includes authentication and 10 more developer resources.

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37.8/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessFreeSelf serve⚡ Free to try

4 APIs

EducationHigher EducationUniversityResearch DataOpen DataCanadaQuebec

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

Composite quality — 37.8/100 · thin

Contract Quality 14.7 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 2.2 / 20

Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13

Governance 7.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.5 / 10

Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 4

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Mcgill Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Examples 3

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

AGENTIC

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Twitter

Twitter

LinkedIn

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review

Review

Source (apis.yml)

aid: mcgill
name: McGill University
description: 'McGill University is a public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, ranked #64 in the QS World University
  Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-readable developer footprint is centered on research-data infrastructure rather than
  a unified developer portal: the McGill University Dataverse is published through the Borealis (Scholars Portal) Dataverse
  platform, which exposes the full Dataverse Native and Search REST APIs over the McGill collection. Identity is federated
  through a Shibboleth SAML single sign-on service. Most other institutional systems (course catalogue, Minerva/Banner registration,
  library discovery) are gated behind authentication or web UIs and do not publish open, documented public APIs.'
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Free · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/mcgill.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/mcgill/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research Data
- Open Data
- Canada
- Quebec
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
properties:
- type: x-vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/mcgill-vocabulary.yml
- type: x-json-ld
  url: json-ld/mcgill-context.jsonld
- type: x-rules
  url: rules/mcgill-rules.yml
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: mcgill:shibboleth-sso
  name: McGill Shibboleth SAML Single Sign-On
  description: 'McGill University Authentication Service, a Shibboleth Identity Provider offering SAML 2.0 federated single
    sign-on for McGill web applications and federation partners. This is an identity/SSO endpoint, not an open data API. Verified
    live: the IdP host responds (HTTP 200).'
  humanURL: https://shibboleth.mcgill.ca/
  tags:
  - Identity
  - Authentication
  - SAML
  - SSO
  - Shibboleth
  properties:
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://shibboleth.mcgill.ca/
- aid: mcgill:mcgill-dataverses-api
  name: McGill University Dataverses API
  description: The Dataverses API from McGill University — 2 operation(s) for dataverses.
  humanURL: https://borealisdata.ca/guides/en/latest/api/native-api.html
  baseURL: https://borealisdata.ca/api
  tags:
  - Dataverses
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/mcgill-dataverses-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://borealisdata.ca/guides/en/latest/api/native-api.html
  - type: Website
    url: https://borealisdata.ca/dataverse/mcgill
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/mcgill-dataverse-schema.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/mcgill-get-dataverse-example.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/search.html
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/mcgill-search-item-schema.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/mcgill-search-example.json
- aid: mcgill:mcgill-info-api
  name: McGill University Info API
  description: The Info API from McGill University — 2 operation(s) for info.
  humanURL: https://borealisdata.ca/guides/en/latest/api/native-api.html
  baseURL: https://borealisdata.ca/api
  tags:
  - Info
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/mcgill-info-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://borealisdata.ca/guides/en/latest/api/native-api.html
  - type: Website
    url: https://borealisdata.ca/dataverse/mcgill
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/mcgill-dataverse-schema.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/mcgill-get-dataverse-example.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/search.html
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/mcgill-search-item-schema.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/mcgill-search-example.json
- aid: mcgill:mcgill-search-api
  name: McGill University Search API
  description: The Search API from McGill University — 2 operation(s) for search.
  humanURL: https://borealisdata.ca/guides/en/latest/api/native-api.html
  baseURL: https://borealisdata.ca/api
  tags:
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/mcgill-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://borealisdata.ca/guides/en/latest/api/native-api.html
  - type: Website
    url: https://borealisdata.ca/dataverse/mcgill
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/mcgill-dataverse-schema.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/mcgill-get-dataverse-example.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/search.html
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/mcgill-search-item-schema.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/mcgill-search-example.json
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/mcgill-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/mcgill-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/mcgill-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.mcgill.ca/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/mcgillu
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/mcgill-university/
- type: Authentication
  url: https://shibboleth.mcgill.ca/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/mcgill-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/mcgill-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/mcgill-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

McGill University

APIs 4

Pricing Plans 1

Rate Limits 1

FinOps 1

Semantic Vocabularies 1

Spectral Rules 2