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Université libre de Bruxelles

Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) is a major French-speaking research university in Brussels, Belgium, ranked #230 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, documented developer footprint is centered on DI-fusion, the university's institutional research repository, which exposes a documented HTTP export API for scholar and group publication lists, a search interface, RSS feeds, and an OAI-PMH harvesting service for metadata. ULB also maintains an official GitHub organization for departmental and research code. Beyond these, most ULB systems (student/SIS portals, library discovery, SSO) are gated and not publicly documented as APIs.

Université libre de Bruxelles publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Research, and Open Access.

The Université libre de Bruxelles catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

Université libre de Bruxelles’ developer surface includes GitHub presence and 8 more developer resources.

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18.9/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
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3 APIs
EducationHigher EducationUniversityResearchOpen AccessInstitutional RepositoryBelgium

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 18.9/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 3.2 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.5 / 10
Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 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 3

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

DI-fusion Scholar Export API

Documented HTTP GET API that exports the publication list for a given ULB scholar (identified by matricule or DAI). Supports output formats including APA, BibTeX, RIS, CSV, xml-...

DI-fusion Group Export API

Documented HTTP GET API that exports the publication list for a group of ULB scholars, defined either by a valid group ID or a list of scholar IDs. Shares output formats and opt...

DI-fusion OAI-PMH Harvesting Service

ULB's DI-fusion institutional repository documents an OAI-PMH harvesting service allowing third parties to harvest metadata for non-profit purposes (provided the OAI identifier ...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Ulb Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Ulb Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Ulb Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Ulb Context

11 classes · 5 properties

JSON-LD

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Ulb Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub
GitHub
 SourceCode
SourceCode

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

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
LinkedIn

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review
Review

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: ulb
name: Université libre de Bruxelles
description: 'Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) is a major French-speaking research university in Brussels, Belgium, ranked
  #230 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, documented developer footprint is centered on DI-fusion, the
  university''s institutional research repository, which exposes a documented HTTP export API for scholar and group publication
  lists, a search interface, RSS feeds, and an OAI-PMH harvesting service for metadata. ULB also maintains an official GitHub
  organization for departmental and research code. Beyond these, most ULB systems (student/SIS portals, library discovery,
  SSO) are gated and not publicly documented as APIs.'
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/ulb.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ulb/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Open Access
- Institutional Repository
- Belgium
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: ulb:difusion-scholar
  name: DI-fusion Scholar Export API
  description: Documented HTTP GET API that exports the publication list for a given ULB scholar (identified by matricule
    or DAI). Supports output formats including APA, BibTeX, RIS, CSV, xml-brief, xml-brief-ext and xml-full, with grouping,
    role filtering, markup and language options. Returns live XML/text bibliographic data.
  humanURL: https://bib.ulb.be/en/find-documents/di-fusion
  baseURL: https://difusion-svc.ulb.ac.be/scholar
  tags:
  - Research
  - Open Access
  - Institutional Repository
  - Bibliography
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://bib.ulb.be/medias/fichier/difusion-download-and-api_1678451163130-pdf?ID_FICHE=10054&INLINE=FALSE
- aid: ulb:difusion-group
  name: DI-fusion Group Export API
  description: Documented HTTP GET API that exports the publication list for a group of ULB scholars, defined either by a
    valid group ID or a list of scholar IDs. Shares output formats and options with the Scholar export API.
  humanURL: https://bib.ulb.be/en/find-documents/di-fusion
  baseURL: https://difusion-svc.ulb.ac.be/group
  tags:
  - Research
  - Open Access
  - Institutional Repository
  - Bibliography
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://bib.ulb.be/medias/fichier/difusion-download-and-api_1678451163130-pdf?ID_FICHE=10054&INLINE=FALSE
- aid: ulb:difusion-oai
  name: DI-fusion OAI-PMH Harvesting Service
  description: ULB's DI-fusion institutional repository documents an OAI-PMH harvesting service allowing third parties to
    harvest metadata for non-profit purposes (provided the OAI identifier or source link is indicated). DI-fusion is registered
    in OpenDOAR, ROAR and Sherpa as an OAI-PMH compliant repository. The repository runs on VuFind; specific OAI base URLs
    were not returning a stable public response at review time.
  humanURL: https://bib.ulb.be/en/find-documents/di-fusion/terms-of-use
  tags:
  - Research
  - Open Access
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata Harvesting
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://bib.ulb.be/medias/fichier/difusion-download-and-api_1678451163130-pdf?ID_FICHE=10054&INLINE=FALSE
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/ulb-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.ulb.be/en
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/ulb
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://be.linkedin.com/school/universite-libre-de-bruxelles/
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/ulb
- type: Plans
  url: plans/ulb-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/ulb-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/ulb-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com