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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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20.5/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
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2 APIs
EducationHigher EducationUniversityCanadaOntarioResearchOpen AccessLibrary

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 20.5/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 3.2 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 2.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 5.9 / 10
Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
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
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APIs 2

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

McMaster API Service Developer Portal

Institutional API management developer portal operated by McMaster University Technology Services. Access requires sign-in with a MacID and password plus a short registration st...

MacSphere OAI-PMH Repository Interface

Publicly accessible OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting interface for MacSphere, McMaster University Libraries' DSpace institutional repository of theses, dissertations, and open-ac...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Mcmaster Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

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.

Mcmaster Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Mcmaster Context

24 classes · 5 properties

JSON-LD

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Mcmaster Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

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
LinkedIn
 Blog
Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review
Review

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
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: '0.19'
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