Purdue University

aid: purdue
name: Purdue University
description: 'Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, United States, ranked
  #99 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-readable developer footprint is limited and largely community-
  or service-specific rather than a single centralized developer portal. Confirmed public interfaces include the community-built
  Purdue.io OData course-catalog API and the Purdue University Research Repository (PURR) OAI-PMH metadata endpoint. A Purdue
  Libraries API host exists but currently serves only a placeholder page.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/purdue/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Open Data
- United States
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: purdue:catalog
  name: Purdue.io Course Catalog API
  description: A community-built, public OData/REST API exposing Purdue's course catalog data, including Campuses, Buildings,
    Rooms, Terms, Courses, Subjects, Sections and related entities. Started as a Purdue CS senior design project; queryable
    via standard OData query options. Confirmed live returning real catalog data.
  humanURL: https://github.com/Purdue-io/PurdueApi
  baseURL: https://api.purdue.io/odata/
  tags:
  - Courses
  - Catalog
  - OData
  - Education
  - Course Catalog
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/Purdue-io/PurdueApi
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/Purdue-io
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/purdue-catalog.yaml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/purdue-course-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/purdue-subject-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/purdue-section-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/purdue-meeting-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/purdue-course-structure.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/purdue-section-structure.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/purdue-listCourses-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/purdue-listSubjects-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/purdue-listCampuses-example.json
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/purdue-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/purdue-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/purdue-context.jsonld
- aid: purdue:purr-oaipmh
  name: PURR OAI-PMH Metadata API
  description: The Purdue University Research Repository (PURR) exposes an OAI-PMH endpoint for harvesting research dataset
    metadata, supporting standard verbs (Identify, ListSets, ListMetadataFormats, ListIdentifiers, ListRecords, GetRecord)
    with the oai_dc (Dublin Core) metadata prefix. Confirmed live via the Identify verb.
  humanURL: https://purr.purdue.edu/kb/finduse/oaipmh
  baseURL: https://purr.purdue.edu/oaipmh
  tags:
  - Research
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata
  - Open Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://purr.purdue.edu/kb/finduse/oaipmh
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.purdue.edu/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/Purdue
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/purdue-university/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/purdue-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/purdue-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/purdue-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/purdue-context.jsonld
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com