The University of California, Berkeley is a public land-grant research university and the founding campus of the University of California system. Berkeley is one of the few universities in this cohort that genuinely operates its own API program rather than merely appearing to: Berkeley IT's Engineering and Integration Services team runs an API Central developer portal and a shared API Gateway on Berkeley's own infrastructure, publishing a public catalog of roughly 28 campus APIs across Student Information, HR, finance and identity, each listed with its UC data classification (P1/P2/P3) and a named Data Owner. That program is real, but it is internal-first: the catalog is public and the contracts are not. No OpenAPI definition is retrievable without a CalNet identity and Data Owner approval, so this profile holds ZERO OpenAPI documents and that is the accurate measurement, not a gap in the research. What Berkeley does publish without credentials is narrower and mostly overlooked: a complete Shibboleth/SAML 2.0 identity provider metadata document at shib.berkeley.edu (InCommon entity urn:mace:incommon:berkeley.edu), a live GeoBlacklight JSON catalog of 5,156 geospatial datasets at geodata.lib.berkeley.edu, and a gated but well-formed research-computing API for the Savio cluster's access management system. Its research repositories are not its engineering: the Digital Collections OAI-PMH endpoint runs on TIND, and eScholarship is a California Digital Library service for the entire UC system. Both are recorded here as tenant relationships, not as Berkeley contracts.
University of California, Berkeley publishes 8 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include University, Higher Education, Education, Public Research University, and United States.
The University of California, Berkeley catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.
University of California, Berkeley’s developer surface includes API reference, documentation, support, status page, authentication, and 24 more developer resources.
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Berkeley IT's centralized API management developer portal, operated by the Engineering and Integration Services (EIS) team. The catalog itself is public: an anonymous client can...
The single centralized entry point for API requests across the Berkeley campus, operated by Berkeley IT on Berkeley's own CloudFront distribution. The gateway obfuscates the int...
UC Berkeley's Shibboleth identity provider, operated by IST-CalNet, publishes a complete unauthenticated SAML 2.0 metadata document describing how any service provider federates...
The UC Berkeley Library's GIS and map discovery application, built and hosted by the Library itself (the application source is public at BerkeleyLibrary/geodata and the host res...
Berkeley Research Computing's cluster access management system, which handles allocations, project membership and access requests for the Savio high-performance computing cluste...
Berkeley's Digital Collections repository exposes a live OAI-PMH 2.0 interface, confirmed with an actual verb=Identify response reporting repositoryName "Digital Collections", r...
eScholarship is the University of California's open-access publishing platform and institutional repository, operated system-wide by the California Digital Library, not by the B...
Library discovery for the Berkeley campus runs on Ex Libris Primo VE as part of the shared UC Library Search environment. search.library.berkeley.edu is a Berkeley-branded hostn...
aid: ucb
name: University of California, Berkeley
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
description: 'The University of California, Berkeley is a public land-grant research university and the founding campus of
the University of California system. Berkeley is one of the few universities in this cohort that genuinely operates its
own API program rather than merely appearing to: Berkeley IT''s Engineering and Integration Services team runs an API Central
developer portal and a shared API Gateway on Berkeley''s own infrastructure, publishing a public catalog of roughly 28 campus
APIs across Student Information, HR, finance and identity, each listed with its UC data classification (P1/P2/P3) and a
named Data Owner. That program is real, but it is internal-first: the catalog is public and the contracts are not. No OpenAPI
definition is retrievable without a CalNet identity and Data Owner approval, so this profile holds ZERO OpenAPI documents
and that is the accurate measurement, not a gap in the research. What Berkeley does publish without credentials is narrower
and mostly overlooked: a complete Shibboleth/SAML 2.0 identity provider metadata document at shib.berkeley.edu (InCommon
entity urn:mace:incommon:berkeley.edu), a live GeoBlacklight JSON catalog of 5,156 geospatial datasets at geodata.lib.berkeley.edu,
and a gated but well-formed research-computing API for the Savio cluster''s access management system. Its research repositories
are not its engineering: the Digital Collections OAI-PMH endpoint runs on TIND, and eScholarship is a California Digital
Library service for the entire UC system. Both are recorded here as tenant relationships, not as Berkeley contracts.'
type: Index
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-19'
accessModel:
pricing: free
onboarding: gated
trial: false
try_now: false
public: false
label: Free / Affiliation-Gated
confidence: high
source:
- plans
- authentication
generated: '2026-08-19'
method: probed
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/ucb.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ucb/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- University
- Higher Education
- Education
- Public Research University
- United States
- California
- UC System
- Research
- Identity Federation
- Research Repository
- Research Computing
- Course Catalog
- Library
- Open Data
- Geospatial Data
- OAI-PMH
x-coverage:
state: gated
reason: contracts_behind_authentication
detail: 'UC Berkeley operates a real, centrally governed API program with a publicly readable catalog of roughly 28 campus
APIs, but every contract in it is behind CalNet SSO plus Data Owner approval. developers.api.berkeley.edu/apis returns
200 to an anonymous client and lists every API''s name, description, data classification and owning organization; no API''s
interactive documentation or OpenAPI definition is reachable without a CalNet identity. This profile therefore holds no
OpenAPI, no JSON Schema and no examples, and none were generated, because generating them would credit Berkeley with contracts
it has not published. Three institution-operated machine-readable surfaces WERE found and verified by protocol response
rather than by link presence: the CalNet Shibboleth/SAML IdP metadata, the library''s GeoBlacklight JSON catalog, and
the MyBRC research-computing API (401 JSON). Two repository surfaces were found and are recorded as TENANT rather than
as Berkeley contracts. Berkeleytime (berkeleytime.com), the well-known student-built Berkeley course-data API, was probed
and is live behind a Cloudflare challenge, but it runs on a non-institution domain under the ASUC student association
and no evidence of University endorsement or operation was found, so it is deliberately NOT credited to Berkeley here.'
generated: '2026-08-19'
method: probed
evidence:
- url: https://developers.api.berkeley.edu/apis
status: 200
- url: https://developers.api.berkeley.edu/api/6
status: 200
- url: https://developers.api.berkeley.edu/terms_of_service
status: 200
- url: https://gateway.api.berkeley.edu/
status: 200
- url: https://shib.berkeley.edu/idp/shibboleth
status: 200
- url: https://geodata.lib.berkeley.edu/catalog.json?q=water
status: 200
- url: https://mybrc.brc.berkeley.edu/api/
status: 401
- url: https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/oai2d?verb=Identify
status: 200
- url: https://escholarship.org/oai?verb=Identify
status: 200
- url: https://na01.alma.exlibrisgroup.com/view/oai/01UCS_BER/request?verb=Identify
status: 200
note: Responds "Institution code 01UCS_BER is invalid" -- no Berkeley Alma OAI provider.
- url: https://www.berkeley.edu/.well-known/security.txt
status: 404
- url: https://www.berkeley.edu/llms.txt
status: 404
- url: https://berkeleytime.com/
status: 403
note: Cloudflare challenge; live but student-run, not institution-operated.
apis:
- aid: ucb:api-central
name: API Central (Developer Portal)
x-operator: institution
description: 'Berkeley IT''s centralized API management developer portal, operated by the Engineering and Integration Services
(EIS) team. The catalog itself is public: an anonymous client can read all roughly 28 published campus APIs grouped by
category (Student Information, UCB Administration, API and Integration Tools) and by Data Owner (SIS, UCB Human Resources,
Berkeley Financial System, CalNet Identity and Access Management, and others), with each API''s description, its UC data
classification rating and its owning organization''s contact address. Interactive OpenAPI documentation, access plans
and credentials all require CalNet login and Data Owner approval, so no contract document is publicly retrievable.'
humanURL: https://developers.api.berkeley.edu/
baseURL: https://developers.api.berkeley.edu/
tags:
- API Management
- Developer Portal
- API Catalog
- Authentication
properties:
- type: APIReference
url: https://developers.api.berkeley.edu/apis
- type: Documentation
url: https://integration-services.berkeley.edu/api-management/developer-portal-api-central
- type: TermsOfService
url: https://developers.api.berkeley.edu/terms_of_service
- type: Support
url: https://developers.api.berkeley.edu/contact_us
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/ucb-authentication.yml
- aid: ucb:api-gateway
name: UC Berkeley API Gateway
x-operator: institution
description: The single centralized entry point for API requests across the Berkeley campus, operated by Berkeley IT on
Berkeley's own CloudFront distribution. The gateway obfuscates the internal workings and physical host of each source
system from clients and centralizes load balancing, authentication, authorization and rate limiting. Individual endpoints
are discovered through API Central; the gateway root serves an explanatory page rather than a machine-readable index.
humanURL: https://integration-services.berkeley.edu/api-management/api-gateway
baseURL: https://gateway.api.berkeley.edu/
tags:
- API Gateway
- Authentication
- Rate Limiting
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://integration-services.berkeley.edu/api-management/api-gateway
- type: RateLimits
url: rate-limits/ucb-rate-limits.yml
- aid: ucb:calnet-shibboleth
name: CalNet Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 Metadata)
x-operator: institution
description: UC Berkeley's Shibboleth identity provider, operated by IST-CalNet, publishes a complete unauthenticated SAML
2.0 metadata document describing how any service provider federates with the institution. The EntityDescriptor carries
entityID urn:mace:incommon:berkeley.edu, a shibmd:Scope of berkeley.edu, an IDPSSODescriptor supporting Shibboleth 1.0,
SAML 1.1 and SAML 2.0 with HTTP-POST, HTTP-Redirect and HTTP-POST-SimpleSign bindings, SingleLogoutService endpoints,
and an AttributeAuthorityDescriptor exposing SAML1 and SAML2 SOAP AttributeQuery services. The signing certificate is
issued to O=UC Berkeley, OU=IST-Calnet. Berkeley's entry is also served by InCommon's MDQ service as a signed entity,
confirming active federation and eduGAIN reach. This is the most substantial machine-readable artifact the institution
publishes to an anonymous caller.
humanURL: https://calnet.berkeley.edu/
baseURL: https://shib.berkeley.edu/idp/shibboleth
tags:
- Identity Federation
- SAML
- Shibboleth
- InCommon
- Authentication
properties:
- type: IdentityFederation
url: https://shib.berkeley.edu/idp/shibboleth
- type: Documentation
url: https://calnet.berkeley.edu/
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/ucb-education-standards-conformance.yml
- aid: ucb:geodata
name: UC Berkeley Library GeoData (GeoBlacklight) Catalog API
x-operator: institution
description: The UC Berkeley Library's GIS and map discovery application, built and hosted by the Library itself (the application
source is public at BerkeleyLibrary/geodata and the host resolves inside Berkeley's own network to nginx-prod.lib.berkeley.edu).
Its Blacklight JSON interface answers anonymous requests at /catalog.json with a paginated JSON:API-shaped response over
5,156 geospatial dataset records described in OpenGeoMetadata Aardvark fields. This is the only Berkeley-operated API
that returns institutional data to a caller with no credentials at all. No OpenAPI is published for it and none was generated.
humanURL: https://geodata.lib.berkeley.edu/
baseURL: https://geodata.lib.berkeley.edu/catalog.json
tags:
- Open Data
- Geospatial Data
- Library
- Discovery
- GeoBlacklight
properties:
- type: OpenData
url: https://geodata.lib.berkeley.edu/
- type: GitHub
url: https://github.com/BerkeleyLibrary/geodata
- aid: ucb:mybrc
name: MyBRC Cluster Access Management API
x-operator: institution
description: Berkeley Research Computing's cluster access management system, which handles allocations, project membership
and access requests for the Savio high-performance computing cluster. The host resolves to Berkeley's own address space
and the API answers an unauthenticated request with a well-formed JSON 401 rather than a login redirect, which is what
distinguishes it from a web application. No schema or interactive documentation is served publicly. This is the research-computing
surface class that universities genuinely operate and rarely publish.
humanURL: https://mybrc.brc.berkeley.edu/
baseURL: https://mybrc.brc.berkeley.edu/api/
tags:
- Research Computing
- HPC
- Allocations
- Authentication
properties:
- type: ResearchComputing
url: https://research-it.berkeley.edu/services-projects/high-performance-computing-savio
- type: Documentation
url: https://research-it.berkeley.edu/
- aid: ucb:digicoll-oai
name: UC Berkeley Digital Collections OAI-PMH (TIND tenant)
x-operator: tenant
x-vendor: TIND
description: 'Berkeley''s Digital Collections repository exposes a live OAI-PMH 2.0 interface, confirmed with an actual
verb=Identify response reporting repositoryName "Digital Collections", repositoryIdentifier digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu
and adminEmail digicoll@berkeley.edu, with named collection sets available via ListSets. The metadata, the collections
and the administrative contact are Berkeley''s; the software and the protocol implementation are not. digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu
CNAMEs to berkeley.lb.service.tind.io, making this a Berkeley-specific tenancy on TIND''s platform. Recorded as a tenant
relationship: the repository is a real institutional fact and one of Berkeley''s few programmable surfaces, but the contract
belongs to TIND and is not saved under this institution.'
humanURL: https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/
baseURL: https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/oai2d
tags:
- Research Repository
- Digital Collections
- OAI-PMH
- Library
- TIND
properties:
- type: ResearchRepository
url: https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/oai2d?verb=Identify
- type: GitHub
url: https://github.com/BerkeleyLibrary/python-tind-client
- aid: ucb:escholarship
name: eScholarship Repository and OAI-PMH (California Digital Library tenant)
x-operator: tenant
x-vendor: California Digital Library (University of California)
description: eScholarship is the University of California's open-access publishing platform and institutional repository,
operated system-wide by the California Digital Library, not by the Berkeley campus. Its OAI-PMH interface is live and
was confirmed with verb=Identify (repositoryIdentifier escholarship.org, adminEmail help@escholarship.org). ListSets returns
a single set, "everything" -- there is no Berkeley-scoped OAI set, which is precisely why this cannot be attributed to
Berkeley as its own contract. Berkeley scholarship is deposited into it and surfaced under the unit path /uc/ucb. Recorded
as a tenant relationship on a sibling UC service.
humanURL: https://help.escholarship.org/support/solutions/articles/9000223035-about-escholarship-apis
baseURL: https://escholarship.org/oai
tags:
- Research Repository
- Open Access
- OAI-PMH
- Scholarly Communication
properties:
- type: ResearchRepository
url: https://escholarship.org/oai?verb=Identify
- type: Documentation
url: https://help.escholarship.org/support/solutions/articles/9000133474-using-the-oai-pmh-interface
- aid: ucb:library-search
name: UC Library Search / Primo VE Discovery (Ex Libris tenant)
x-operator: tenant
x-vendor: Ex Libris (Clarivate)
description: Library discovery for the Berkeley campus runs on Ex Libris Primo VE as part of the shared UC Library Search
environment. search.library.berkeley.edu is a Berkeley-branded hostname that CNAMEs to berkeley.primo.exlibrisgroup.com
and then to na07.primo.exlibrisgroup.com, with a Berkeley view code of 01UCS_BER:UCB. No Berkeley-operated Alma OAI provider
exists -- probing the Alma OAI endpoint with the Berkeley view code returns "Institution code 01UCS_BER is invalid", confirming
the institution is a view inside a UC-wide network zone rather than the operator of its own Alma instance. The Library
does publish its own open-source Alma and Primo tooling on GitHub. Recorded as a tenant relationship; no vendor contract
saved here.
humanURL: https://search.library.berkeley.edu/discovery/search?vid=01UCS_BER:UCB
tags:
- Library
- Discovery
- Primo
- Alma
- Metadata
properties:
- type: LibraryCatalog
url: https://search.library.berkeley.edu/discovery/search?vid=01UCS_BER:UCB
- type: GitHub
url: https://github.com/BerkeleyLibrary/alma
common:
- type: Website
url: https://www.berkeley.edu/
- type: DeveloperPortal
url: https://developers.api.berkeley.edu/
- type: APIReference
url: https://developers.api.berkeley.edu/apis
- type: Documentation
url: https://integration-services.berkeley.edu/api-management/developer-portal-api-central
- type: TermsOfService
url: https://developers.api.berkeley.edu/terms_of_service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
url: https://www.berkeley.edu/privacy-policy/
- type: Support
url: https://developers.api.berkeley.edu/contact_us
- type: Status
url: https://systemstatus.berkeley.edu/
- type: IdentityFederation
url: https://shib.berkeley.edu/idp/shibboleth
- type: OpenData
url: https://geodata.lib.berkeley.edu/
- type: ResearchRepository
url: https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/oai2d?verb=Identify
- type: LibraryCatalog
url: https://search.library.berkeley.edu/discovery/search?vid=01UCS_BER:UCB
- type: CourseCatalog
url: https://classes.berkeley.edu/
- type: ResearchComputing
url: https://research-it.berkeley.edu/services-projects/high-performance-computing-savio
- type: AIPolicy
url: https://ai.berkeley.edu/guidance
- type: AITooling
url: https://ai.berkeley.edu/tools-training
- type: GitHubOrganization
url: https://github.com/ucberkeley
- type: GitHubOrganization
url: https://github.com/BerkeleyLibrary
- type: GitHubOrganization
url: https://github.com/ets-berkeley-edu
- type: SecurityPolicy
url: https://security.berkeley.edu/
- type: LinkedIn
url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/uc-berkeley/
- type: Twitter
url: https://x.com/UCBerkeley
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/ucb-authentication.yml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/ucb-education-standards-conformance.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/ucb-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
url: plans/ucb-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
url: rate-limits/ucb-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
url: finops/ucb-finops.yml
- type: Review
url: review.yml
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