University of Cambridge

aid: university-of-cambridge
name: University of Cambridge
description: 'The University of Cambridge (founded 1209; QS World 2025 #5) is a public collegiate research university with
  a real, documented developer footprint operated mainly by University Information Services (UIS): a central API Gateway /
  developer portal (developer.api.apps.cam.ac.uk) fronting identity-oriented REST APIs, the long-standing Lookup/Ibis directory
  web service, the Raven central authentication service (OAuth2 / OpenID Connect), and the Apollo institutional repository
  (DSpace REST + OAI-PMH). UIS open-source code is published on a self-hosted GitLab.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-cambridge/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- United Kingdom
- Identity
- API Gateway
- Developer Portal
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: university-of-cambridge:lookup
  name: Lookup / Ibis Web Service API
  description: Read/write HTTP API over the University directory of people and institutions. Returns XML, JSON, or text; path
    style /person/crsid/{id}. Anonymous read-only within the Cambridge University Data Network; HTTP Basic auth (group credentials)
    for external or read-write access. Swagger 2.0 / OpenAPI 3.0 specs published, with Java/Python/PHP client libraries.
  humanURL: https://www.lookup.cam.ac.uk/doc/ws-doc/
  baseURL: https://www.lookup.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/
  tags:
  - Directory
  - Identity
  - REST
  - OpenAPI
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.lookup.cam.ac.uk/doc/ws-doc/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-cambridge-lookup.yaml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-cambridge-person-schema.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/university-of-cambridge-person-structure.json
  - type: x-examples
    url: examples/university-of-cambridge-person-example.json
  - type: x-spectral-rules
    url: rules/university-of-cambridge-rules.yml
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-cambridge-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-json-ld-context
    url: json-ld/university-of-cambridge-context.jsonld
- aid: university-of-cambridge:raven
  name: Raven Authentication (OAuth2 / OpenID Connect)
  description: The University's central web authentication service. Raven OAuth2 conforms to OpenID Connect; applications
    register client credentials to authenticate Cambridge users. An identity/SSO interface rather than a data REST API.
  humanURL: https://docs.raven.cam.ac.uk/
  tags:
  - Identity
  - Authentication
  - OAuth2
  - OpenID Connect
  - SSO
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.raven.cam.ac.uk/
  - type: Signup
    url: https://docs.raven.cam.ac.uk/en/latest/creating-oauth2-client-credentials/
- aid: university-of-cambridge:gateway
  name: Cambridge API Gateway (Card / Student / HR)
  description: UIS API Gateway (ALPHA) publishing read-oriented REST APIs — University Card, University Student (CamSIS-sourced),
    and University Human Resources (CHRIS-sourced). Interactive "try this API" docs on the developer portal. Student and HR
    APIs are documented as ALPHA and not under active development.
  humanURL: https://developer.api.apps.cam.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://api.apps.cam.ac.uk/
  tags:
  - Identity
  - Students
  - Human Resources
  - REST
  - API Gateway
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.api.apps.cam.ac.uk/
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://guidebook.devops.uis.cam.ac.uk/services/api-gateway/
- aid: university-of-cambridge:apollo
  name: Apollo Institutional Repository API (DSpace)
  description: Cambridge's open-access research repository (Apollo) on the DSpace platform, exposing OAI-PMH metadata harvesting
    and a DSpace REST API. Managed by Cambridge University Library Open Research Systems.
  humanURL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://api.repository.cam.ac.uk/server/
  tags:
  - Repository
  - Open Access
  - DSpace
  - OAI-PMH
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100010620
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.cam.ac.uk/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developer.api.apps.cam.ac.uk/
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://gitlab.developers.cam.ac.uk/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://x.com/Cambridge_Uni
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-cambridge/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-cambridge-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-cambridge-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-cambridge-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com