UCL

aid: ucl
name: UCL
description: 'University College London (UCL) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom, ranked #9 in the
  QS World University Rankings 2025. UCL has a notably mature public developer footprint via UCL API (uclapi.com), a student-built
  but Information Services Division (ISD) backed, open-source, OAuth2-secured platform that exposes UCL digital services such
  as room bookings, timetables, staff search, desktop/study-space availability, and workspaces. UCL also operates open-research
  infrastructure including UCL Discovery (open-access repository) and the UCL Research Data Repository (Figshare-powered).
  The UCL API is free to use and requires UCL affiliation for authentication.'
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/ucl/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- United Kingdom
- Open Data
- Research
- Library
- Timetable
apis:
- aid: ucl:roombookings
  name: UCL API Room Bookings
  description: Fetch details of room bookings and free/empty rooms across UCL. Part of the UCL API platform; data is refreshed
    roughly every twenty minutes from UCL source systems.
  humanURL: https://uclapi.com/docs
  baseURL: https://uclapi.com/roombookings
  tags:
  - Room Bookings
  - Facilities
  - Education
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://uclapi.com/docs
  - type: Signup
    url: https://uclapi.com/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://github.com/uclapi/uclapi-openapi/blob/master/uclapi.json
- aid: ucl:timetable
  name: UCL API Timetable
  description: Fetch personal and module timetables with various filters for departments, modules, and student groups. Part
    of the UCL API platform.
  humanURL: https://uclapi.com/docs
  baseURL: https://uclapi.com/timetable
  tags:
  - Timetable
  - Courses
  - Education
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://uclapi.com/docs
  - type: Signup
    url: https://uclapi.com/
- aid: ucl:search
  name: UCL API Search
  description: Search for staff (people) directory information within UCL. Part of the UCL API platform.
  humanURL: https://uclapi.com/docs
  baseURL: https://uclapi.com/search
  tags:
  - Search
  - Directory
  - People
  - Education
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://uclapi.com/docs
  - type: Signup
    url: https://uclapi.com/
- aid: ucl:workspaces
  name: UCL API Workspaces
  description: Fetch library study-space (workspace) availability, sensor data, and maps throughout UCL; availability is updated
    approximately every two minutes.
  humanURL: https://uclapi.com/docs
  baseURL: https://uclapi.com/workspaces
  tags:
  - Workspaces
  - Library
  - Sensors
  - Education
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://uclapi.com/docs
  - type: Signup
    url: https://uclapi.com/
- aid: ucl:resources
  name: UCL API Resources
  description: Fetch desktop / computer availability throughout UCL. Part of the UCL API platform.
  humanURL: https://uclapi.com/docs
  baseURL: https://uclapi.com/resources
  tags:
  - Resources
  - Facilities
  - Education
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://uclapi.com/docs
  - type: Signup
    url: https://uclapi.com/
- aid: ucl:oauth
  name: UCL API OAuth
  description: Authenticate and authorise applications for UCL users via OAuth2; tokens are issued through the UCL login system
    and used across all UCL API services.
  humanURL: https://uclapi.com/docs
  baseURL: https://uclapi.com/oauth
  tags:
  - OAuth
  - Authentication
  - Identity
  - Education
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://uclapi.com/docs
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://uclapi.com/docs
- aid: ucl:discovery-oai
  name: UCL Discovery (OAI-PMH)
  description: UCL Discovery is UCL's open-access institutional repository of research outputs. It exposes an OAI-PMH metadata-harvesting
    endpoint (EPrints). Access to the OAI endpoint was protected (HTTP 403) at the time of review.
  humanURL: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/
  tags:
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Open Access
  - Research
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/
- aid: ucl:research-data-repository
  name: UCL Research Data Repository
  description: The UCL Research Data Repository is UCL's institutional data repository, built on Figshare, used to deposit,
    archive, publish and assign DOIs to research datasets and outputs. Figshare exposes a public REST/OAI API; specifics are
    governed by the underlying Figshare platform.
  humanURL: https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - Repository
  - Figshare
  - Open Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://uclapi.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://uclapi.com/docs
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/uclapi
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/uclapi/uclapi
- type: OpenAPI
  url: https://github.com/uclapi/uclapi-openapi
- type: OpenAPI
  url: openapi/ucl-uclapi.yaml
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/
- type: JSONStructure
  url: json-structure/
- type: Examples
  url: examples/
- type: Rules
  url: rules/ucl-rules.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/ucl-vocabulary.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/ucl-context.jsonld
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://uk.linkedin.com/company/uclapi
- type: Plans
  url: plans/ucl-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/ucl-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/ucl-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'