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. Unlike most universities in this cohort, UCSF operates two genuinely institution-owned public APIs rather than renting them from a platform vendor: the UCSF Profiles JSON API, run by the UCSF Clinical and Translational Science Institute over 8,000+ researcher records, and the UCSF Industry Documents Library Solr API, run by the UCSF Library Center for Knowledge Management over 28.2 million internal industry documents produced in tobacco, drug, chemical, food, fossil fuel and opioid litigation. Both are anonymous, read-only, and documented by UCSF itself. UCSF also operates a Shibboleth identity provider registered in the InCommon Federation as urn:mace:incommon:ucsf.edu. Everything else in UCSF's machine-readable footprint is a vendor platform running under a UCSF name — Dryad for research data, Ex Libris Primo for library discovery, CourseLeaf for the course catalog, and the California Digital Library's eScholarship for OAI-PMH harvesting — and is recorded here as a tenant relationship, not as UCSF engineering. There is no central UCSF developer portal: the developer.ucsf.edu host recorded in the June 2026 profile does not resolve on any public DNS resolver and has never been archived, and UCSF's API gateway at unified-api.ucsf.edu answers only with a Citrix challenge. UCSF publishes no OpenAPI, no changelog, and no status feed for either API it does run.
University of California, San Francisco publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network: Documents API and Profiles API. Tagged areas include University, Higher Education, Education, United States, and California.
The University of California, San Francisco catalog on APIs.io includes 2 JSON-LD contexts and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
University of California, San Francisco’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, GitHub presence, support, engineering blog, code examples, authentication, and 29 more developer resources.
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Education & Research regime, so
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no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's
denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to
upsert.
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because the conditional facet above carries the other
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UCSF's institutional research-data repository, delivered on the Dryad platform. 1,306 DataCite DOIs carry a UCSF publisher string. Dryad operates a public REST API, but it is Dr...
UCSF's open-access scholarly output is harvestable as a named OAI-PMH set on the University of California's eScholarship repository, returning oai_dc records with ark:/13030/ id...
UCSF Library's discovery layer, delivered on Ex Libris Primo. No UCSF-operated catalog API was found; the Primo and Alma APIs are Ex Libris products and are not attributed to UC...
The 2026–27 UCSF course catalog, published through Leepfrog's CourseLeaf. No public course, timetable or registrar API exists — the CourseLeaf JSON endpoints that some instituti...
aid: ucsf
name: University of California, San Francisco
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
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. Unlike most universities
in this cohort, UCSF operates two genuinely institution-owned public APIs rather than renting them from a platform vendor:
the UCSF Profiles JSON API, run by the UCSF Clinical and Translational Science Institute over 8,000+ researcher records,
and the UCSF Industry Documents Library Solr API, run by the UCSF Library Center for Knowledge Management over 28.2 million
internal industry documents produced in tobacco, drug, chemical, food, fossil fuel and opioid litigation. Both are anonymous,
read-only, and documented by UCSF itself. UCSF also operates a Shibboleth identity provider registered in the InCommon Federation
as urn:mace:incommon:ucsf.edu. Everything else in UCSF''s machine-readable footprint is a vendor platform running under
a UCSF name — Dryad for research data, Ex Libris Primo for library discovery, CourseLeaf for the course catalog, and the
California Digital Library''s eScholarship for OAI-PMH harvesting — and is recorded here as a tenant relationship, not as
UCSF engineering. There is no central UCSF developer portal: the developer.ucsf.edu host recorded in the June 2026 profile
does not resolve on any public DNS resolver and has never been archived, and UCSF''s API gateway at unified-api.ucsf.edu
answers only with a Citrix challenge. UCSF publishes no OpenAPI, no changelog, and no status feed for either API it does
run.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
model: saas
open_source: false
commercial: true
callable_host: true
label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
confidence: high
source:
- openapi
- pricing
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: derived
accessModel:
pricing: free
onboarding: none
trial: false
try_now: true
public: true
label: Free
confidence: high
source:
- probed
generated: '2026-08-19'
method: probed
position: Producing
access: Public
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:
- University
- Higher Education
- Education
- United States
- California
- UC System
- Public Research University
- Health Sciences
- Research
- Researcher Profiles
- Research Data
- Open Data
- Library
- Digital Archive
- Identity Federation
- Research Computing
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: ucsf:incommon-idp
name: UCSF Identity Provider (Shibboleth / InCommon)
x-operator: institution
x-operator-evidence: A SAML identity provider is institution-operated by definition — the entity asserts UCSF's own users.
UCSF self-publishes the metadata on its own host, https://dp.ucsf.edu/idp/shibboleth (an EntitiesDescriptor named https://ucsf-federation.edu/metadata/myaccess-ucsf.xml,
carrying entityIDs urn:mace:incommon:ucsf.edu and https://dp.ucsf.edu/idp/shibboleth, with shibmd:Scope ucsf.edu). The
InCommon MDQ service redistributes a signed copy; the running IdP is UCSF's.
description: UCSF's Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider, registered in the InCommon Federation and re-exported to eduGAIN.
Signed, versioned, publicly retrievable federation metadata describing SingleSignOnService and SingleLogoutService endpoints
at dp.ucsf.edu across HTTP-Redirect, HTTP-POST, HTTP-POST-SimpleSign and the Shibboleth 1.0 AuthnRequest binding, with
shibmd:Scope ucsf.edu declarations, an AttributeAuthorityDescriptor and an SPSSODescriptor. UCSF serves the metadata itself
at https://dp.ucsf.edu/idp/shibboleth and InCommon redistributes a signed copy. This is the most standards-conformant
machine-readable artifact UCSF publishes, and it is the education regime's `saml` and `shibboleth` domain standards in
one document. UCSF separately fronts interactive login with Okta at login.ucsf.edu; the federated entity remains dp.ucsf.edu.
Verified live 2026-08-19.
humanURL: https://it.ucsf.edu/
baseURL: https://dp.ucsf.edu/idp/shibboleth
tags:
- Identity Federation
- SAML
- Shibboleth
- InCommon
- eduGAIN
- Authentication
properties:
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/ucsf-authentication.yml
- type: Metadata
url: authentication/ucsf-idp-self-published-metadata.xml
- type: Metadata
url: authentication/ucsf-incommon-saml-metadata.xml
- type: IdentityFederation
url: https://mdq.incommon.org/entities/urn%3Amace%3Aincommon%3Aucsf.edu
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/ucsf-education-standards-conformance.yml
- aid: ucsf:idl-content-api
name: UCSF Industry Documents Library Content API
x-operator: institution
x-operator-evidence: Payload CMS deployment operated by the UCSF Library Center for Knowledge Management on its own libckm.org
infrastructure domain, serving the content layer of www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu. The CMS software is third-party; the
deployment, the content and the operation are UCSF's. The host is not under ucsf.edu, so this attribution rests on the
CKM infrastructure evidence rather than on the domain test alone.
description: Publicly readable REST content API behind the Industry Documents Library website, exposing 320 editorial pages
— collection guides, curated document sets, field-name references, dataset listings, policies and release notes — as JSON.
Undocumented and unversioned by UCSF; it exists because the IDL site is a decoupled single-page application. Recorded
as a real institutional surface, but no derived OpenAPI is claimed for it because UCSF publishes no contract and makes
no stability commitment. Verified live 2026-08-19, returning 320 documents.
humanURL: https://www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/
baseURL: https://cms.libckm.org/api/
tags:
- content-api
- CMS
- Digital Archive
- JSON
tags_raw:
- Content API
- CMS
- Digital Archive
- JSON
properties:
- type: Website
url: https://www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/
- aid: ucsf:datashare-dryad
name: UCSF DataShare (Dryad)
x-operator: tenant
x-operator-evidence: datashare.ucsf.edu is a UCSF-branded subdomain serving the Dryad application (page title "Dryad | Publish
and preserve your data"). The data and DOIs are UCSF's; the repository software, the API and the DataCite integration
are Dryad's and the California Digital Library's. No Dryad contract is saved under this institution.
description: UCSF's institutional research-data repository, delivered on the Dryad platform. 1,306 DataCite DOIs carry a
UCSF publisher string. Dryad operates a public REST API, but it is Dryad's contract serving every Dryad customer, so it
is recorded here as a tenant relationship rather than as a UCSF API. Verified live 2026-08-19.
humanURL: https://datashare.ucsf.edu/
tags:
- Research Data
- Repository
- Dryad
- DataCite
- Tenant
properties:
- type: ResearchRepository
url: https://datashare.ucsf.edu/
- aid: ucsf:escholarship-oai
name: UCSF scholarly output via eScholarship OAI-PMH
x-operator: tenant
x-operator-evidence: escholarship.org is operated by the California Digital Library for the whole University of California
system. UCSF is one named OAI-PMH set (`ucsf`) on a shared endpoint, not the operator of it.
description: UCSF's open-access scholarly output is harvestable as a named OAI-PMH set on the University of California's
eScholarship repository, returning oai_dc records with ark:/13030/ identifiers. This satisfies the education regime's
`oai-pmh` domain standard for UCSF's content, but the OAI-PMH implementation belongs to the California Digital Library.
Verified live 2026-08-19.
humanURL: https://escholarship.org/uc/ucsf
baseURL: https://escholarship.org/oai?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&set=ucsf
tags:
- OAI-PMH
- Open Access
- Repository
- Tenant
- Harvesting
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://escholarship.org/oai?verb=Identify
- aid: ucsf:library-discovery
name: UCSF Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo)
x-operator: tenant
x-operator-evidence: search.library.ucsf.edu is a UCSF-branded subdomain running Ex Libris Primo. Any API is Ex Libris's,
published on developers.exlibrisgroup.com and shared by every Primo customer.
description: UCSF Library's discovery layer, delivered on Ex Libris Primo. No UCSF-operated catalog API was found; the Primo
and Alma APIs are Ex Libris products and are not attributed to UCSF. Recorded to make the library surface class explicit
rather than to imply a UCSF contract. Verified live 2026-08-19.
humanURL: https://search.library.ucsf.edu/
tags:
- Library
- Discovery
- Primo
- Ex Libris
- Tenant
properties:
- type: LibraryCatalog
url: https://search.library.ucsf.edu/
- aid: ucsf:course-catalog
name: UCSF Course Catalog (CourseLeaf)
x-operator: tenant
x-operator-evidence: coursecatalog.ucsf.edu is a UCSF-branded subdomain running Leepfrog's CourseLeaf catalog product. CourseLeaf's
ribbit/getcourse.rjs endpoint returned 404, so no course API is exposed here at all.
description: The 2026–27 UCSF course catalog, published through Leepfrog's CourseLeaf. No public course, timetable or registrar
API exists — the CourseLeaf JSON endpoints that some institutions leave open are not exposed on this deployment, and UCSF's
Office of the Registrar publishes no API. As a graduate-and-professional-only campus, UCSF has none of the student-built
timetable APIs that undergraduate institutions in this cohort produce. Verified 2026-08-19.
humanURL: https://coursecatalog.ucsf.edu/
tags:
- Course Catalog
- Registrar
- CourseLeaf
- Tenant
properties:
- type: CourseCatalog
url: https://coursecatalog.ucsf.edu/
- aid: ucsf:ucsf-documents-api
name: University of California, San Francisco Documents API
description: Query the IDL document corpus by identifier or by Solr query syntax.
humanURL: https://profilesdeveloper.ucsf.edu/json-api
baseURL: https://api.profiles.ucsf.edu/json/v2/
tags:
- Documents
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/ucsf-documents-api-openapi.yml
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/ucsf-profile.json
- type: Examples
url: examples/ucsf-profiles-json-api-response.json
- type: Documentation
url: https://profilesdeveloper.ucsf.edu/json-api
- type: DeveloperPortal
url: https://profilesdeveloper.ucsf.edu/
- type: Support
url: https://profilesdeveloper.ucsf.edu/contact-and-support
- type: JSONLD
url: json-ld/ucsf-context.jsonld
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/ucsf-industry-document.json
- type: Examples
url: examples/ucsf-industry-documents-single-document.json
- type: Website
url: https://www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/
- type: Documentation
url: https://web.archive.org/web/20220301000000/https://www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/IndustryDocumentsDataAPI_v5.pdf
- type: JSONLD
url: json-ld/ucsf-industry-documents-context.jsonld
- aid: ucsf:ucsf-profiles-api
name: University of California, San Francisco Profiles API
description: Look up a UCSF person's public research profile.
humanURL: https://profilesdeveloper.ucsf.edu/json-api
baseURL: https://api.profiles.ucsf.edu/json/v2/
tags:
- Profiles
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/ucsf-profiles-api-openapi.yml
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/ucsf-profile.json
- type: Examples
url: examples/ucsf-profiles-json-api-response.json
- type: Documentation
url: https://profilesdeveloper.ucsf.edu/json-api
- type: DeveloperPortal
url: https://profilesdeveloper.ucsf.edu/
- type: Support
url: https://profilesdeveloper.ucsf.edu/contact-and-support
- type: JSONLD
url: json-ld/ucsf-context.jsonld
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/ucsf-industry-document.json
- type: Examples
url: examples/ucsf-industry-documents-single-document.json
- type: Website
url: https://www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/
- type: Documentation
url: https://web.archive.org/web/20220301000000/https://www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/IndustryDocumentsDataAPI_v5.pdf
- type: JSONLD
url: json-ld/ucsf-industry-documents-context.jsonld
common:
- type: Website
url: https://www.ucsf.edu/
- type: Documentation
url: https://profilesdeveloper.ucsf.edu/json-api
- type: APIReference
url: https://profilesdeveloper.ucsf.edu/json-api
- type: DeveloperPortal
url: https://profilesdeveloper.ucsf.edu/
- type: GitHubOrganization
url: https://github.com/UCSF
- type: GitHub
url: https://github.com/ucsf-ckm
- type: LinkedIn
url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/ucsf/
- type: TermsOfService
url: https://www.ucsf.edu/terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
url: https://www.ucsf.edu/website-privacy-policy
- type: Support
url: https://profilesdeveloper.ucsf.edu/contact-and-support
- type: Blog
url: https://www.ucsf.edu/news
- type: OpenData
url: https://data.ucsf.edu/
- type: ResearchRepository
url: https://datashare.ucsf.edu/
- type: LibraryCatalog
url: https://search.library.ucsf.edu/
- type: CourseCatalog
url: https://coursecatalog.ucsf.edu/
- type: IdentityFederation
url: https://mdq.incommon.org/entities/urn%3Amace%3Aincommon%3Aucsf.edu
- type: ResearchComputing
url: https://wynton.ucsf.edu/hpc/
- type: AIPolicy
url: https://ai.ucsf.edu/
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/ucsf-profiles-json-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/ucsf-industry-documents-solr-openapi.yml
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/ucsf-profile.json
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/ucsf-industry-document.json
- type: Examples
url: examples/README.md
- type: Vocabulary
url: vocabulary/ucsf-vocabulary.yml
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/ucsf-authentication.yml
- type: Scopes
url: scopes/ucsf-scopes.yml
- type: Errors
url: errors/ucsf-errors.yml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/ucsf-education-standards-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/ucsf-lifecycle.yml
- type: Rules
url: rules/ucsf-governance-rules.yml
- type: JSONLD
url: json-ld/ucsf-context.jsonld
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/ucsf-domain-security.yml
- 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
x-coverage:
state: covered
reason: institution_operated_surfaces_verified
detail: 'UCSF is one of the few institutions in this cohort with a genuinely institution-operated programmable footprint,
and it was fully reachable. Two public APIs on ucsf.edu hosts were probed live and returned real data — the UCSF Profiles
JSON API and the UCSF Industry Documents Library Solr API (28,298,987 documents) — and UCSF''s Shibboleth SAML metadata
was retrieved signed from the InCommon MDQ service. Three education-regime domain standards are met on institution-operated
surfaces (saml, shibboleth, orcid) and two more on tenant surfaces (oai-pmh via the California Digital Library''s eScholarship,
datacite via Dryad). What UCSF does NOT have is equally clear and is recorded rather than padded: no OpenAPI, no changelog,
no status feed, no scopes, no machine-readable error contract, no course or registrar API, and no central developer portal.
The developer.ucsf.edu host carried in the 2026-06-03 profile was removed after returning NXDOMAIN from three independent
public resolvers with zero Internet Archive history, meaning it was never a publicly reachable surface. UCSF''s API gateway
at unified-api.ucsf.edu is live but answers every request with a Citrix NetScaler JavaScript challenge, so nothing is
claimed from it. Four vendor-platform surfaces (Dryad, Ex Libris Primo, CourseLeaf, eScholarship) are recorded as tenant
relationships; no vendor contract is saved.'
evidence:
- url: https://api.profiles.ucsf.edu/json/v2/?source=apievangelist.com&ProfilesURLName=kirsten.bibbins-domingo
status: 200
- url: https://api.profiles.ucsf.edu/json/v2/
status: 400
- url: https://solr.idl.ucsf.edu/solr/ltdl3/query?q=*:*&rows=0&wt=json
status: 200
- url: https://solr.idl.ucsf.edu/solr/ltdl3/query?q=id:kylw0221&wt=json
status: 200
- url: https://dp.ucsf.edu/idp/shibboleth
status: 200
- url: https://mdq.incommon.org/entities/urn%3Amace%3Aincommon%3Aucsf.edu
status: 200
- url: https://cms.libckm.org/api/pages
status: 200
- url: https://escholarship.org/oai?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&set=ucsf
status: 200
- url: https://api.datacite.org/dois?query=publisher:%22UCSF%22
status: 200
- url: https://datashare.ucsf.edu/
status: 200
- url: https://search.library.ucsf.edu/
status: 200
- url: https://coursecatalog.ucsf.edu/
status: 200
- url: https://coursecatalog.ucsf.edu/ribbit/index.cgi?page=getcourse.rjs&code=EPI
status: 404
- url: https://data.ucsf.edu/
status: 200
- url: https://data.ucsf.edu/api/3/action/package_list
status: 404
- url: https://wynton.ucsf.edu/hpc/
status: 200
- url: https://ai.ucsf.edu/
status: 200
- url: https://unified-api.ucsf.edu/
status: 403
- url: https://developer.ucsf.edu/
status: 0
- url: https://web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?url=developer.ucsf.edu*
status: 200
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
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