Taylor's University

Taylor's University is a private research university based in Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia, and ranked #251 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. It does not operate a formal, branded developer portal, but several real, publicly reachable machine interfaces exist across its library and research infrastructure. The Taylor's Library catalog runs on Koha (exposing a Koha REST API and an OAI-PMH data provider), and the Taylor's e-Repository runs on DSpace CRIS (exposing a HAL+JSON REST API and an OAI-PMH endpoint). Identity is federated through Microsoft Entra ID. The institution's GitHub organization exists but currently has no public repositories.

Taylor’s University publishes 6 APIs on the APIs.io network, including checkouts API, holds API, item_types API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Library, and Institutional Repository.

The Taylor’s University catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Taylor’s University’s developer surface includes authentication, GitHub presence, and 10 more developer resources.

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44.4/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessFreeSelf serve⚡ Free to try

9 APIs

EducationHigher EducationUniversityLibraryInstitutional RepositoryOpen DataMalaysiaAsia

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Composite quality — 44.4/100 · developing

Contract Quality 17.6 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 2.2 / 20

Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13

Governance 7.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 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 9

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

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Taylors Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

JSON Schema 4

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Examples 3

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Taylors Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Taylors Agentic Access

11 operations

11 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

Authentication

OAuthScopes

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

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review

Review

Source (apis.yml)

aid: taylors
name: Taylor's University
description: 'Taylor''s University is a private research university based in Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia, and ranked #251
  in the QS World University Rankings 2025. It does not operate a formal, branded developer portal, but several real, publicly
  reachable machine interfaces exist across its library and research infrastructure. The Taylor''s Library catalog runs on
  Koha (exposing a Koha REST API and an OAI-PMH data provider), and the Taylor''s e-Repository runs on DSpace CRIS (exposing
  a HAL+JSON REST API and an OAI-PMH endpoint). Identity is federated through Microsoft Entra ID. The institution''s GitHub
  organization exists but currently has no public repositories.'
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Free · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/taylors.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/taylors/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Library
- Institutional Repository
- Open Data
- Malaysia
- Asia
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: taylors:library-oai
  name: Taylor's Library OAI-PMH
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 data provider exposed by the Koha-powered Taylor's Library catalog for harvesting bibliographic
    metadata. The Identify response returns repository name "Taylor's Library" with earliest records dating to December 2019.
  humanURL: https://librarycatalogue.taylors.edu.my/
  baseURL: https://librarycatalogue.taylors.edu.my/cgi-bin/koha/oai.pl
  tags:
  - Library
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata
  - Harvesting
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://librarycatalogue.taylors.edu.my/cgi-bin/koha/oai.pl?verb=Identify
- aid: taylors:irepo-rest
  name: Taylor's e-Repository DSpace REST API
  description: The Taylor's e-Repository runs on DSpace CRIS (cris-2022.01.01) and exposes a HATEOAS HAL+JSON REST API at
    /server/api covering communities, collections, items, bundles, discovery, statistics, ORCID and external sources. It collects
    research abstracts, theses, dissertations, academic profiles, articles and creative works from Taylor's faculty, staff
    and students.
  humanURL: https://irepo.taylors.edu.my/
  baseURL: https://irepo.taylors.edu.my/server/api
  tags:
  - Repository
  - DSpace
  - REST
  - Research
  - CRIS
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://irepo.taylors.edu.my/server/api
- aid: taylors:irepo-oai
  name: Taylor's e-Repository OAI-PMH
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 data provider for the DSpace CRIS e-Repository, advertising repository name "Taylor's University
    Library" and OpenAIRE CERIF profile compliance for research-output discovery and aggregation.
  humanURL: https://irepo.taylors.edu.my/
  baseURL: https://irepo.taylors.edu.my/server/oai/request
  tags:
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata
  - OpenAIRE
  - Harvesting
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://irepo.taylors.edu.my/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
- aid: taylors:taylors-checkouts-api
  name: Taylor's University checkouts API
  description: Item checkouts (issues)
  humanURL: https://librarycatalogue.taylors.edu.my/
  baseURL: https://librarycatalogue.taylors.edu.my/api/v1
  tags:
  - checkouts
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/taylors-checkouts-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://librarycatalogue.taylors.edu.my/api/v1/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/taylors-patron-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/taylors-checkout-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/taylors-hold-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/taylors-item-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/taylors-patron-structure.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/taylors-item-structure.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/taylors-getPatron-example.json
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/taylors-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/taylors-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/taylors-context.jsonld
- aid: taylors:taylors-holds-api
  name: Taylor's University holds API
  description: Holds (reservations)
  humanURL: https://librarycatalogue.taylors.edu.my/
  baseURL: https://librarycatalogue.taylors.edu.my/api/v1
  tags:
  - holds
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/taylors-holds-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://librarycatalogue.taylors.edu.my/api/v1/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/taylors-patron-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/taylors-checkout-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/taylors-hold-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/taylors-item-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/taylors-patron-structure.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/taylors-item-structure.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/taylors-getPatron-example.json
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/taylors-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/taylors-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/taylors-context.jsonld
- aid: taylors:taylors-item-types-api
  name: Taylor's University item_types API
  description: Item types
  humanURL: https://librarycatalogue.taylors.edu.my/
  baseURL: https://librarycatalogue.taylors.edu.my/api/v1
  tags:
  - item_types
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/taylors-item-types-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://librarycatalogue.taylors.edu.my/api/v1/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/taylors-patron-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/taylors-checkout-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/taylors-hold-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/taylors-item-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/taylors-patron-structure.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/taylors-item-structure.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/taylors-getPatron-example.json
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/taylors-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/taylors-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/taylors-context.jsonld
- aid: taylors:taylors-items-api
  name: Taylor's University items API
  description: Catalog items
  humanURL: https://librarycatalogue.taylors.edu.my/
  baseURL: https://librarycatalogue.taylors.edu.my/api/v1
  tags:
  - items
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/taylors-items-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://librarycatalogue.taylors.edu.my/api/v1/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/taylors-patron-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/taylors-checkout-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/taylors-hold-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/taylors-item-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/taylors-patron-structure.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/taylors-item-structure.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/taylors-getPatron-example.json
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/taylors-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/taylors-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/taylors-context.jsonld
- aid: taylors:taylors-libraries-api
  name: Taylor's University libraries API
  description: Libraries (branches)
  humanURL: https://librarycatalogue.taylors.edu.my/
  baseURL: https://librarycatalogue.taylors.edu.my/api/v1
  tags:
  - libraries
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/taylors-libraries-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://librarycatalogue.taylors.edu.my/api/v1/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/taylors-patron-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/taylors-checkout-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/taylors-hold-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/taylors-item-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/taylors-patron-structure.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/taylors-item-structure.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/taylors-getPatron-example.json
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/taylors-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/taylors-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/taylors-context.jsonld
- aid: taylors:taylors-patrons-api
  name: Taylor's University patrons API
  description: Patron (borrower) records
  humanURL: https://librarycatalogue.taylors.edu.my/
  baseURL: https://librarycatalogue.taylors.edu.my/api/v1
  tags:
  - patrons
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/taylors-patrons-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://librarycatalogue.taylors.edu.my/api/v1/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/taylors-patron-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/taylors-checkout-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/taylors-hold-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/taylors-item-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/taylors-patron-structure.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/taylors-item-structure.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/taylors-getPatron-example.json
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/taylors-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/taylors-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/taylors-context.jsonld
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/taylors-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/taylors-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/taylors-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/taylors-scopes.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://university.taylors.edu.my/en.html
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/Taylors-University
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/taylor's-university/
- type: Authentication
  url: https://librarycatalogue.taylors.edu.my/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/taylors-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/taylors-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/taylors-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com