McMaster University

McMaster University is a public research university in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, ranked #176 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its developer and API presence is centered on a gated API service developer portal operated by University Technology Services, which requires institutional MacID authentication and a registration step before any API can be subscribed to; the underlying API catalog is therefore not publicly browsable. The most openly accessible programmatic interface is the library's MacSphere institutional repository, a DSpace platform that exposes a public OAI-PMH metadata-harvesting endpoint.

McMaster University publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Canada, and Ontario.

The McMaster University catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

McMaster University’s developer surface includes GitHub presence, status page, engineering blog, and 9 more developer resources.

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17.4/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

AccessFree

2 APIs

EducationHigher EducationUniversityCanadaOntarioResearchOpen AccessLibrary

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 17.4/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 2.4 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.4 / 17

Access Clarity 4.9 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.9 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.0 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.1 / 15

Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 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

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Education & Research regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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APIs 2

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

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Mcmaster Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLD

JSONLD

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Status

Status

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

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review

Review

Source (apis.yml)

aid: mcmaster
name: McMaster University
description: 'McMaster University is a public research university in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, ranked #176 in the QS World
  University Rankings 2025. Its developer and API presence is centered on a gated API service developer portal operated by
  University Technology Services, which requires institutional MacID authentication and a registration step before any API
  can be subscribed to; the underlying API catalog is therefore not publicly browsable. The most openly accessible programmatic
  interface is the library''s MacSphere institutional repository, a DSpace platform that exposes a public OAI-PMH metadata-harvesting
  endpoint.'
type: Index
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: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/mcmaster.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/mcmaster/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Canada
- Ontario
- Research
- Open Access
- Library
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: mcmaster:developer-portal
  name: McMaster API Service Developer Portal
  description: Institutional API management developer portal operated by McMaster University Technology Services. Access requires
    sign-in with a MacID and password plus a short registration step; APIs and products cannot be browsed or subscribed to
    without authentication, so the catalog is gated and not publicly documented.
  humanURL: https://developer.api.mcmaster.ca/
  tags:
  - Developer Portal
  - Authentication
  - Gated
  - API Management
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.api.mcmaster.ca/
  - type: Signup
    url: https://developer.api.mcmaster.ca/
- aid: mcmaster:macsphere-oai
  name: MacSphere OAI-PMH Repository Interface
  description: Publicly accessible OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting interface for MacSphere, McMaster University Libraries'
    DSpace institutional repository of theses, dissertations, and open-access research outputs. Supports the standard OAI-PMH
    verbs (Identify, ListRecords, ListSets, GetRecord) over HTTP returning XML metadata.
  humanURL: https://library.mcmaster.ca/research/getting-started-macsphere
  baseURL: https://macsphere.mcmaster.ca/server/oai/request
  tags:
  - Library
  - OAI-PMH
  - DSpace
  - Open Access
  - Institutional Repository
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://library.mcmaster.ca/research/getting-started-macsphere
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/mcmaster-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.mcmaster.ca/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developer.api.mcmaster.ca/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/mcmaster-university
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://ca.linkedin.com/school/mcmaster-university/
- type: Status
  url: https://uts.mcmaster.ca/status/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/mcmaster-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/mcmaster-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/mcmaster-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/mcmaster-context.jsonld
- type: Blog
  url: blogs/blogs.json
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

McMaster University

Kin Score

APIs 2

McMaster API Service Developer Portal

MacSphere OAI-PMH Repository Interface

Pricing Plans 1

Mcmaster Plans Pricing

Rate Limits 1

Mcmaster Rate Limits

FinOps 1

Mcmaster Finops

Semantic Vocabularies 1

Mcmaster Context

Security Posture 1

Mcmaster Domain Security

Resources