# Peking University

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/peking/  
**Website:** https://www.pku.edu.cn/  
**APIs profiled:** 8

Peking University (北京大学, PKU) is a public research university in Beijing and, with Tsinghua, one of the two apex institutions of the Chinese system. Like most universities it operates no central developer portal and publishes no OpenAPI, but unlike most it runs three genuinely institution-operated machine-readable surfaces. Its Institutional Repository at ir.pku.edu.cn — PKU Library, Handle prefix 20.500.11897, content back to 2015 — answers an unauthenticated JSON REST API, a conforming OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint advertising twelve metadata formats, and an OpenSearch Atom feed. Its Shibboleth identity provider publishes live SAML 2.0 metadata and has been in eduGAIN production since June 2019. Most significantly, the Peking University Computer Center operates CARSI, China's national research-and-education identity federation and a full eduGAIN member, which is the registration authority for 1,042 federated entities and serves 500+ Chinese universities; PKU also runs the national eduroam service. The PKU HPC group additionally authors OpenSCOW and CraneSched, open-source HPC platform and scheduler whose APIs are defined in some forty Protocol Buffer files, though those describe self-hosted software rather than a hosted endpoint. The Dataverse-based Open Research Data Platform at opendata.pku.edu.cn was verified live in June 2026 but did not answer any HTTPS request during this pass. No API is documented for developers, none carries a versioning or deprecation policy, and campus systems — IAAA authentication, the 教学网 LMS, the registrar — are gated. The footprint is small, real, and almost entirely a by-product of scholarly infrastructure rather than a developer programme.

## Kin Score — 41.2 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: rising (+20.5 from 20.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 62.6 |
| Governance | 22.0 |
| Contract Governance | 22.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 8.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 64.8 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 36.3 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Free — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (8)

- **PKU Institutional Repository REST API** — Unauthenticated read API over the university's scholarly record — communities that mirror the faculty structure (理学部, 人文学部, 专利 with 25,721 items), their collections, items, Dubl...
- **PKU Institutional Repository OAI-PMH API** — OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint for the institutional repository, live since at least 2015-09-25 (its earliest datestamp). Advertises twelve metadata formats — oai_dc, ...
- **PKU Institutional Repository OpenSearch Feed** — OpenSearch 1.1 query interface returning an Atom feed of repository records, served from the institution's own host. Verified live 2026-08-19 (HTTP 200, 32KB Atom response for q...
- **Peking University Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 metadata)** — The university's federated identity provider, publishing live Shibboleth/SAML 2.0 metadata as machine-readable XML. Declares SAML 2.0 POST, POST-SimpleSign and Redirect SSO/SLO ...
- **CARSI — CERNET Authentication and Resource Sharing Infrastructure** — China's national identity federation for higher education and research, operated by Peking University and a full eduGAIN member. 1,042 SAML entities in eduGAIN carry CARSI as th...
- **OpenSCOW / CraneSched research-computing APIs** — OpenSCOW ("Super Computing On Web") is an HPC portal and management system authored at Peking University; CraneSched is its distributed scheduler for HPC and AI workloads. Their...
- **PKU Open Research Data Platform (Dataverse REST API)** — Dataverse-based research data repository operated by the PKU Library across social science, health, bioinformatics and NLP collections. Verified live by this catalog on 2026-06-...
- **PKU Open Research Data Platform (OAI-PMH)** — OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint for the Open Research Data Platform, verified responding to the Identify verb on 2026-06-03 with Dublin Core and DataCite support via th...

## Security (2)

- **Peking Authentication** — saml2/shibboleth/cas/oauth2/none · 4 schemes
- **Peking Domain Security** — TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Peking Plans Pricing**

## Tags

University, Higher Education, Education, China, Public Research University, C9 League, Research Repository, Identity Federation, Research Data, Open Data, Research Computing, OAI-PMH

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/peking/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.