# Technical University of Munich

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/tum/  
**Website:** https://www.tum.de/en/  
**APIs profiled:** 6

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) is a public technical research university in Munich, Germany, and one of Germany's eleven Universities of Excellence. Its programmable footprint is real but small, and almost none of it comes from a central IT developer program: TUM operates no public developer portal, publishes no API terms of service, and lists no API on www.tum.de. What it does operate, verified live on 2026-08-19, is four machine-readable surfaces. Two are OpenAPI contracts built and run by Open Source @ TUM e.V. (TUM-Dev), a TUM-affiliated association: the TUM Campus App backend at api.tum.app (19 operations, Swagger 2.0 generated from tumdev/campus_backend.proto, also served over gRPC at api-grpc.tum.app, listed by TUM IT as an official TUM mobile app), and NavigaTUM at nav.tum.de (room, building and campus navigation, taken into productive operation by TUM as the official room finder). The other two are the surfaces a university operates by definition and rarely catalogues: a SAML 2.0 / Shibboleth identity provider publishing DFN-AAI-registered metadata at login.tum.de with SIRTFI2 assurance, and an OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint on mediaTUM, TUM's own institutional repository, harvestable back to 1959. Everything else is a tenant relationship on someone else's platform: the student information system TUMonline runs CAMPUSonline on campus.tum.de (live unauthenticated course REST plus a full OIDC discovery document with 108 scopes), the research information system TUMFIS runs Elsevier Pure, and the canteen menu API eat-api is static JSON on GitHub Pages carrying Studierendenwerk data. No open data portal exists: data.tum.de and opendata.tum.de do not resolve.

## Kin Score — 36.5 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+3.2 from 33.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 29.8 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 7.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 50.0 |
| Access Clarity | 50.0 |

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

## Agent readiness — 23.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| 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 (6)

- **TUM Campus App Backend API** — REST and gRPC backend behind the official TUM Campus App. 19 operations across campus news and alerts, student clubs, cinema listings, canteen and dish ratings, device registrat...
- **NavigaTUM** — Search and navigation API for TUM rooms, buildings and places — a Rust service over MeiliSearch, fully unauthenticated, documented with an OpenAPI 3 contract served live at http...
- **mediaTUM OAI-PMH Repository Interface** — OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting interface over TUM's institutional repository. Verified verbs Identify, ListMetadataFormats and ListSets all answer 200. Metadata prefixes: oai_dc, epicur...
- **TUM Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 Metadata)** — Machine-readable SAML 2.0 identity provider metadata — an EntityDescriptor with an IDPSSODescriptor supporting urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:protocol, registered in DFN-AAI since ...
- **TUMonline (CAMPUSonline) — Course Catalog and Identity** — TUM's student information system of record, running CAMPUSonline. Two machine-readable surfaces were verified live and unauthenticated on 2026-08-19: a hypermedia course catalog...
- **eat-api — Munich Student Canteen Menus** — Static JSON API for Munich student canteen menus, prices, dish labels and opening hours, regenerated on a schedule and served as flat files from GitHub Pages. Two OpenAPI files ...

## Agentic access (1)

- **Tum Agentic Access** — 19 operations · 4 acting

## Security (3)

- **Tum Authentication** — 0 schemes
- **Tum Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **Tum Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Tum Plans Pricing**

## Tags

University, Higher Education, Education, Germany, Technical University, Universities of Excellence, Campus, Course Catalog, Identity Federation, Research Repository, Open-Source, Student Information System

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