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Peking University

Peking University (PKU) is a major public research university in Beijing, China, ranked #25 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its most clearly documented public, machine-readable API footprint is the Peking University Open Research Data Platform, a Dataverse-based research data repository operated by the PKU Library that exposes both the native Dataverse REST API and a live OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint. Campus identity is handled by the PKU IAAA unified authentication system (a CAS/SSO service), which is gated and not a public developer API. No general-purpose institutional developer portal was found at the time of review.

Peking University publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Research Data, and Open Data.

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

Peking University’s developer surface includes GitHub presence, authentication, and 8 more developer resources.

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23.0/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 12/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
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2 APIs
EducationHigher EducationUniversityResearch DataOpen DataChina

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 23.0/100 · 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 6.9 / 10
Agent readiness — 12/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 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 2

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

PKU Open Research Data Platform (Dataverse REST API)

The Peking University Open Research Data Platform is built on Dataverse and exposes the standard Dataverse native REST API for searching, retrieving, and managing dataverses, da...

PKU Open Research Data Platform (OAI-PMH)

Live OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint for the Peking University Open Research Data Platform Dataverse archive. Verified to respond to the Identify verb, supporting metad...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Peking Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Peking Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Peking Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

Peking Context

17 classes · 4 properties

JSON-LD

Security Posture 1

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

Peking Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub
GitHub
 SourceCode
SourceCode

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 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 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review
Review

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: peking
name: Peking University
description: 'Peking University (PKU) is a major public research university in Beijing, China, ranked #25 in the QS World
  University Rankings 2025. Its most clearly documented public, machine-readable API footprint is the Peking University Open
  Research Data Platform, a Dataverse-based research data repository operated by the PKU Library that exposes both the native
  Dataverse REST API and a live OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint. Campus identity is handled by the PKU IAAA unified
  authentication system (a CAS/SSO service), which is gated and not a public developer API. No general-purpose institutional
  developer portal was found at the time of review.'
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/peking.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/peking/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research Data
- Open Data
- China
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: peking:opendata-rest
  name: PKU Open Research Data Platform (Dataverse REST API)
  description: The Peking University Open Research Data Platform is built on Dataverse and exposes the standard Dataverse
    native REST API for searching, retrieving, and managing dataverses, datasets, and files. The platform hosts research data
    across social sciences, health, bioinformatics, and NLP. API behavior follows the upstream Dataverse API guides.
  humanURL: https://opendata.pku.edu.cn/
  baseURL: https://opendata.pku.edu.cn/api
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - Open Data
  - Dataverse
  - REST
  - Repository
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/
  - type: Website
    url: https://opendata.pku.edu.cn/
- aid: peking:opendata-oaipmh
  name: PKU Open Research Data Platform (OAI-PMH)
  description: Live OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint for the Peking University Open Research Data Platform Dataverse
    archive. Verified to respond to the Identify verb, supporting metadata standards including Dublin Core and DataCite, with
    YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ granularity. Implemented via the XOAI OAI-PMH Java toolkit.
  humanURL: https://opendata.pku.edu.cn/
  baseURL: https://opendata.pku.edu.cn/oai
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata
  - Harvesting
  - Research Data
  - Repository
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/oai.html
  - type: Website
    url: https://opendata.pku.edu.cn/
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/peking-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://english.pku.edu.cn/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/PKUHPC
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/peking-university/
- type: Authentication
  url: https://iaaa.pku.edu.cn/
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/pengchengluo/Peking-University-Open-Research-Data-Platform
- type: Plans
  url: plans/peking-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/peking-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/peking-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com