Tel Aviv University

aid: tel-aviv-university
name: Tel Aviv University
description: 'Tel Aviv University (TAU) is Israel''s largest public research university, located in Tel Aviv, and is ranked
  #209 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. TAU does not publish a centralized, public developer portal or open-data
  API program. Its confirmed machine-accessible surface is limited to standard third-party platform endpoints: an ExLibris
  Primo discovery interface (institution code 972TAU_INST:TAU) backed by an Alma library services platform that exposes the
  usual Primo Search REST API and Alma OAI-PMH harvesting endpoints. Student-built, unofficial tooling also scrapes/wraps
  TAU''s Moodle and information-management (IMS) systems. No officially documented, self-service public API was found.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Israel
- Library
- Discovery
- Research
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: tel-aviv-university:primo-discovery
  name: TAU Libraries Primo Discovery (DaTA Search)
  description: Tel Aviv University Libraries run ExLibris Primo for catalog/discovery (branded "DaTA Search"), institution
    code 972TAU_INST:TAU. The hosted Primo platform exposes the standard Primo Search REST API. Programmatic access requires
    ExLibris API keys provisioned through the institution; there is no TAU-specific public developer portal.
  humanURL: https://tau.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=972TAU_INST:TAU&lang=en
  baseURL: https://tau.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search
  tags:
  - Library
  - Discovery
  - Primo
  - ExLibris
  - Catalog
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/primo/apis/
  - type: Website
    url: https://en-libraries.tau.ac.il/
- aid: tel-aviv-university:alma-oai-pmh
  name: TAU Libraries Alma / OAI-PMH Metadata Harvesting
  description: The TAU Libraries Primo discovery layer is backed by the ExLibris Alma library services platform. Alma deployments
    expose the standard OAI-PMH metadata harvesting protocol and the Alma REST APIs. Endpoints and harvesting access are platform-standard
    and institution-provisioned; TAU does not publish a dedicated OAI-PMH base URL or developer docs of its own.
  humanURL: https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/alma/integrations/oai/
  tags:
  - Library
  - OAI-PMH
  - Alma
  - ExLibris
  - Metadata
  - Harvesting
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/alma/integrations/oai/
- aid: tel-aviv-university:unofficial-tau-tools
  name: Unofficial tau-tools (Moodle / IMS / course data)
  description: A community/student project (Arazim Project) that programmatically wraps several TAU web systems — including
    the Moodle LMS, the information-management (IMS) grade system, and course/study-plan data — and republishes aggregated
    course and plan JSON. This is unofficial, third-party tooling, not an official TAU API, and may break or violate terms
    of use.
  humanURL: https://github.com/arazimproject/tau-tools
  tags:
  - Unofficial
  - Moodle
  - LMS
  - Courses
  - Community
  - ThirdParty
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/arazimproject/tau-tools
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/arazimproject/tau-tools
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://english.tau.ac.il/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/arazimproject
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://il.linkedin.com/school/tel-aviv-university/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://x.com/telavivuni
- type: Plans
  url: plans/tel-aviv-university-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/tel-aviv-university-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/tel-aviv-university-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com