University of California, San Diego

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.

University of California, San Diego publishes 6 APIs on the APIs.io network, including audio API, chat API, completions API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Research, and United States.

The University of California, San Diego catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

University of California, San Diego’s developer surface includes authentication, GitHub presence, and 10 more developer resources.

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43.2/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 38/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessFreeSelf serve⚡ Free to try

9 APIs

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Composite quality — 43.2/100 · developing

Contract Quality 16.6 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 3.9 / 20

Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13

Governance 7.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.5 / 10

Agent readiness — 38/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 9

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Ucsd Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Examples 2

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review

Review

Source (apis.yml)

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
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Free · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/ucsd.png
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: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
- aid: ucsd:ucsd-audio-api
  name: University of California, San Diego audio API
  description: Speech synthesis and transcription endpoints.
  humanURL: https://developer.ucsd.edu/
  baseURL: https://developer.ucsd.edu/
  tags:
  - audio
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ucsd-audio-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://tritonai.ucsd.edu/developer-apis/index.html
  - type: Signup
    url: https://tritonai.ucsd.edu/developer-apis/index.html
  - 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:ucsd-chat-api
  name: University of California, San Diego chat API
  description: Chat completion endpoints.
  humanURL: https://developer.ucsd.edu/
  baseURL: https://developer.ucsd.edu/
  tags:
  - chat
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ucsd-chat-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://tritonai.ucsd.edu/developer-apis/index.html
  - type: Signup
    url: https://tritonai.ucsd.edu/developer-apis/index.html
  - 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:ucsd-completions-api
  name: University of California, San Diego completions API
  description: Text completion endpoints.
  humanURL: https://developer.ucsd.edu/
  baseURL: https://developer.ucsd.edu/
  tags:
  - completions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ucsd-completions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://tritonai.ucsd.edu/developer-apis/index.html
  - type: Signup
    url: https://tritonai.ucsd.edu/developer-apis/index.html
  - 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:ucsd-embeddings-api
  name: University of California, San Diego embeddings API
  description: Embedding generation endpoints.
  humanURL: https://developer.ucsd.edu/
  baseURL: https://developer.ucsd.edu/
  tags:
  - embeddings
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ucsd-embeddings-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://tritonai.ucsd.edu/developer-apis/index.html
  - type: Signup
    url: https://tritonai.ucsd.edu/developer-apis/index.html
  - 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:ucsd-images-api
  name: University of California, San Diego images API
  description: Image generation endpoints.
  humanURL: https://developer.ucsd.edu/
  baseURL: https://developer.ucsd.edu/
  tags:
  - images
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ucsd-images-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://tritonai.ucsd.edu/developer-apis/index.html
  - type: Signup
    url: https://tritonai.ucsd.edu/developer-apis/index.html
  - 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:ucsd-models-api
  name: University of California, San Diego models API
  description: Model discovery endpoints.
  humanURL: https://developer.ucsd.edu/
  baseURL: https://developer.ucsd.edu/
  tags:
  - models
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ucsd-models-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://tritonai.ucsd.edu/developer-apis/index.html
  - type: Signup
    url: https://tritonai.ucsd.edu/developer-apis/index.html
  - 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
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/ucsd-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/ucsd-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/ucsd-authentication.yml
- 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