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Politecnico di Milano

Politecnico di Milano is Italy's largest technical university, focused on engineering, architecture, and design, and ranked #111 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-readable developer footprint is limited and not consolidated into a single developer portal. The most concrete public API surface is the OAI-PMH metadata endpoint of its IRIS Re.Public@Polimi institutional research repository (CINECA platform), an open data portal at opendata.polimi.it (browse/download, with no documented programmatic API), and a Shibboleth/SAML2 identity provider participating in the Italian IDEM (GARR) federation. Most student-facing service APIs (online services / mobile app backends) are gated behind authentication and are not publicly documented.

Politecnico di Milano publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Research, and Open Data.

The Politecnico di Milano catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

Politecnico di Milano’s developer surface includes authentication and 7 more developer resources.

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22.1/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 12/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
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3 APIs
EducationHigher EducationUniversityResearchOpen DataRepositoryOAI-PMHIdentityItaly

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 22.1/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 3.2 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 2.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.5 / 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 3

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

IRIS Re.Public@Polimi OAI-PMH

Public OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for the IRIS Re.Public@Polimi institutional research repository (CINECA platform). The endpoint resolves and returns a valid Iden...

Politecnico di Milano Open Data Portal

Institutional open data portal (opendata.polimi.it) publishing the university's public datasets. The portal resolves and serves dataset browsing and download, but exposes no doc...

Politecnico di Milano Shibboleth Identity Provider

Shibboleth/SAML2 identity provider for Politecnico di Milano, serving federated single sign-on as part of the Italian IDEM (GARR) academic identity federation. The IdP metadata ...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Politecnico Di Milano Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Politecnico Di Milano Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Politecnico Di Milano Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

Politecnico Di Milano Context

19 classes · 5 properties

JSON-LD

Security Posture 1

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

Politecnico Di Milano Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

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: politecnico-di-milano
name: Politecnico di Milano
description: 'Politecnico di Milano is Italy''s largest technical university, focused on engineering, architecture, and design,
  and ranked #111 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-readable developer footprint is limited and
  not consolidated into a single developer portal. The most concrete public API surface is the OAI-PMH metadata endpoint of
  its IRIS Re.Public@Polimi institutional research repository (CINECA platform), an open data portal at opendata.polimi.it
  (browse/download, with no documented programmatic API), and a Shibboleth/SAML2 identity provider participating in the Italian
  IDEM (GARR) federation. Most student-facing service APIs (online services / mobile app backends) are gated behind authentication
  and are not publicly documented.'
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/politecnico-di-milano.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/politecnico-di-milano/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Open Data
- Repository
- OAI-PMH
- Identity
- Italy
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: politecnico-di-milano:iris-oai-pmh
  name: IRIS Re.Public@Polimi OAI-PMH
  description: Public OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for the IRIS Re.Public@Polimi institutional research repository
    (CINECA platform). The endpoint resolves and returns a valid Identify response naming the repository "IRIS - POLIMI -
    prod" with Dublin Core and other metadata formats available via ListMetadataFormats. Supports standard OAI-PMH verbs (Identify,
    ListMetadataFormats, ListRecords, ListSets, GetRecord).
  humanURL: https://re.public.polimi.it/
  baseURL: https://re.public.polimi.it/oai/request
  tags:
  - Research
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Open Access
  - IRIS
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://re.public.polimi.it/
  - type: API
    url: https://re.public.polimi.it/oai/request?verb=Identify
- aid: politecnico-di-milano:open-data
  name: Politecnico di Milano Open Data Portal
  description: Institutional open data portal (opendata.polimi.it) publishing the university's public datasets. The portal
    resolves and serves dataset browsing and download, but exposes no documented programmatic API at the time of review (CKAN
    package_list, Socrata, and data.json probes returned 404). Listed as a data access point rather than a confirmed machine
    API.
  humanURL: https://opendata.polimi.it/
  tags:
  - Open Data
  - Datasets
  - Research
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://opendata.polimi.it/
- aid: politecnico-di-milano:shibboleth-idp
  name: Politecnico di Milano Shibboleth Identity Provider
  description: Shibboleth/SAML2 identity provider for Politecnico di Milano, serving federated single sign-on as part of the
    Italian IDEM (GARR) academic identity federation. The IdP metadata endpoint resolves publicly; it is an authentication/federation
    service rather than a general-purpose data API.
  humanURL: https://www.polimi.it/onlineservices
  baseURL: https://shibidp.polimi.it/idp/shibboleth
  tags:
  - Identity
  - Authentication
  - SAML
  - Shibboleth
  - SSO
  - IDEM
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.polimi.it/onlineservices
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://shibidp.polimi.it/idp/shibboleth
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/politecnico-di-milano-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.polimi.it/en/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/polimi/
- type: Authentication
  url: https://shibidp.polimi.it/idp/shibboleth
- type: Plans
  url: plans/politecnico-di-milano-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/politecnico-di-milano-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/politecnico-di-milano-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com