# University of Bristol

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/university-of-bristol/  
**Website:** https://www.bristol.ac.uk/  
**APIs profiled:** 4

The University of Bristol is a public research university in Bristol, United Kingdom, ranked #58 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer/API footprint is research-oriented rather than a centralized developer portal: the Bristol Research Portal (Pure, by Elsevier) exposes a documented REST API and an OAI-PMH 2.0 interface over its open-access research outputs, and data.bris is the institution's open research data repository with DataCite DOIs. Department-level engineering groups (notably HPC and Computer Science) publish open-source code on GitHub, but the university does not operate a single unified institutional API/developer program.

## Kin Score — 39.2 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 39.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 66.1 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 21.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 31.5 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 34.7 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Free · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (4)

- **University of Bristol data-set API** — The data-set API from University of Bristol — 2 operation(s) for data-set.
- **University of Bristol person API** — The person API from University of Bristol — 2 operation(s) for person.
- **University of Bristol project API** — The project API from University of Bristol — 2 operation(s) for project.
- **University of Bristol research-output API** — The research-output API from University of Bristol — 2 operation(s) for research-output.

## Agentic access (1)

- **University Of Bristol Agentic Access** — 8 operations

## Security (2)

- **University Of Bristol Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **University Of Bristol Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **University Of Bristol Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, Research, Open Data, United Kingdom

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-bristol/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.