University of California, San Diego

aid: ucsd
name: University of California, San Diego
description: 'University of California, San Diego (UCSD) is a public research university in La Jolla, California, ranked #36
  in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its developer and API footprint is operated primarily by Information Technology
  Services (ITS) through a developer guide and an SSO-gated Web API Portal, with most institutional APIs restricted to UCSD
  staff, students, and faculty who hold a Single Sign-On account. UCSD also runs TritonAI, an LLM gateway for campus users,
  and maintains active open-source GitHub organizations and a publicly browsable Library Digital Collections repository.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ucsd/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- United States
- California
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: ucsd:developer-portal
  name: UC San Diego ITS Developer Guide
  description: The UC San Diego ITS developer guide provides the information needed to understand and navigate campus systems
    and build applications that conform to recommended architecture and guidelines. It is the entry point to the campus developer
    community and Web API resources.
  humanURL: https://developer.ucsd.edu/
  baseURL: https://developer.ucsd.edu/
  tags:
  - Developer Portal
  - Documentation
  - Higher Education
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsd.edu/
- aid: ucsd:web-api-portal
  name: UC San Diego Web API Portal
  description: The UC San Diego API Portal documents campus Web APIs and REST guidelines. APIs are available to UCSD developers
    (staff, students, and faculty) who have a Single Sign-On account; at this time the APIs are not open to developers outside
    of UCSD.
  humanURL: https://collab.ucsd.edu/api/api-documentation
  tags:
  - API Portal
  - REST
  - SSO
  - Gated
  - Documentation
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://collab.ucsd.edu/api/api-documentation
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://collab.ucsd.edu/api/api-documentation/rest-api-guidelines
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://ucsdcollab.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/API/pages/22544505/FAQ
- aid: ucsd:tritonai
  name: TritonAI Developer API
  description: TritonAI provides programmatic access to a curated selection of large language models through a secure, centralized
    LLM gateway powered by LiteLLM. It supports chat, reasoning, vision, image generation, OCR, and coding. Access is restricted
    to approved UC San Diego faculty, staff, researchers, and campus teams, authenticated with issued API keys.
  humanURL: https://tritonai.ucsd.edu/developer-apis/index.html
  baseURL: https://tritonai-api.ucsd.edu/
  tags:
  - AI
  - LLM
  - Gateway
  - Gated
  - Documentation
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://tritonai.ucsd.edu/developer-apis/index.html
  - type: Signup
    url: https://tritonai.ucsd.edu/developer-apis/index.html
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ucsd-tritonai.yaml
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/ucsd-chat-completion-request-schema.json
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/ucsd-embedding-request-schema.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/ucsd-chat-completion-structure.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/ucsd-embedding-structure.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/ucsd-chat-completion-example.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/ucsd-embeddings-example.json
  - type: x-spectral-rules
    url: rules/ucsd-rules.yml
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/ucsd-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-json-ld
    url: json-ld/ucsd-context.jsonld
- aid: ucsd:library-digital-collections
  name: UC San Diego Library Digital Collections
  description: The UC San Diego Library Digital Collections is a public search and discovery interface for over 100,000 digital
    objects (documents, photographs, audio, video, and datasets) managed in the locally developed Digital Asset Management
    System (DAMS). It is registered as a research data repository on re3data. No formally documented public REST/IIIF/OAI-PMH
    API surface was confirmed during this review.
  humanURL: https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/
  tags:
  - Library
  - Digital Collections
  - Research Data
  - Repository
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100011577
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.ucsd.edu/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developer.ucsd.edu/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/UCSD
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/ucsdlib
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/uc-san-diego/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/ucsd-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/ucsd-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/ucsd-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com