University of California, San Francisco

aid: ucsf
name: University of California, San Francisco
description: 'The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a public health-sciences university and the only UC campus
  dedicated exclusively to graduate and health professions education, biomedical research, and patient care. It is ranked
  #39 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. UCSF maintains a public developer presence centered on the CTSI-operated UCSF
  Profiles research-networking platform, which exposes an open JSON API covering 8,000+ researchers, faculty, and postdocs.
  UCSF also runs an internal developer portal (developer.ucsf.edu) and a MuleSoft Anypoint API platform managed by ITS Integration
  Services that catalogs SIS course enrollment, building metadata, ServiceNow, and CV APIs, but those are gated behind MyAccess
  SSO and the campus network and are not publicly consumable.'
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/ucsf.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ucsf/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Health Sciences
- Research
- Researcher Profiles
- Open Data
- United States
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: ucsf:profiles-json
  name: UCSF Profiles JSON API
  description: 'Open JSON API from the CTSI-operated UCSF Profiles research-networking platform, providing data on 8,000+
    UCSF researchers, faculty, and postdocs: name, school, department, title, ORCID, education, research interests, publications,
    grants, and more. GET requests return JSON (v2), with CORS and JSONP support. A source parameter identifying the calling
    application is required; no advance permission is needed to begin, but developers are asked to contact UCSF before production
    use and to refresh cached data weekly.'
  humanURL: https://profilesdeveloper.ucsf.edu/json-api
  baseURL: https://api.profiles.ucsf.edu/json/v2/
  tags:
  - Research
  - Researcher Profiles
  - Open Data
  - JSON
  - Publications
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://profilesdeveloper.ucsf.edu/json-api
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://profilesdeveloper.ucsf.edu/
- aid: ucsf:developer-portal
  name: Developer@UCSF API Portal (internal)
  description: UCSF's institutional API catalog and developer portal, operated by ITS Integration Services on the MuleSoft
    Anypoint Platform. It documents APIs such as SIS Course Enrollment, Building Metadata (Archibus), ServiceNow incident
    creation, and CV/Advance data. Access requires MyAccess SSO and the UCSF network/VPN, so these APIs are not publicly consumable;
    listed here for completeness of the institutional API footprint.
  humanURL: https://developer.ucsf.edu/all-apis
  tags:
  - Internal
  - Gated
  - MuleSoft
  - SIS
  - Identity
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsf.edu/all-apis
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://developer.ucsf.edu/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://developer.ucsf.edu/apisucsf
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/ucsf-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.ucsf.edu/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/UCSF
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/ucsf/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developer.ucsf.edu/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/ucsf-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/ucsf-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/ucsf-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/ucsf-context.jsonld
- type: Blog
  url: blogs/blogs.json
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com