# University of Cape Town

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/university-of-cape-town/  
**Website:** https://www.uct.ac.za/  
**APIs profiled:** 7

The University of Cape Town (UCT) is South Africa's leading public research university, ranked #96 in the QS World University Rankings 2025 and the highest-ranked university on the African continent. UCT does not operate a single consolidated developer portal, but several of its research and library units expose public, machine-readable interfaces. DataFirst runs a NADA-based microdata catalog with a public REST API, the OpenUCT institutional repository exposes a DSpace OAI-PMH metadata harvesting endpoint, and the ZivaHub open data repository is built on Figshare for Institutions and is reachable through the public Figshare API. Most operational, student-information, and identity systems remain gated behind institutional authentication.

## Kin Score — 30.7 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 30.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 55.8 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 20.4 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 20.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| 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 | no |

## Access

Free — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (7)

- **DataFirst Microdata Catalog API (NADA)** — DataFirst is a UCT research unit and data service providing online access to survey and administrative microdata from South Africa and other African countries. Its open data por...
- **OpenUCT Institutional Repository OAI-PMH** — OpenUCT is the University of Cape Town's open access institutional repository, launched in 2014 and built on DSpace. It preserves and openly shares UCT scholarly outputs includi...
- **ZivaHub Open Data (Figshare API)** — ZivaHub is UCT's institutional open data repository for research data and scholarly outputs, powered by Figshare for Institutions and certified with the CoreTrustSeal in 2025. P...
- **University of Cape Town articles API** — Public articles (research outputs / datasets)
- **University of Cape Town catalog API** — Browse and search the microdata catalog.
- **University of Cape Town collections API** — Public collections
- **University of Cape Town projects API** — Public projects

## Agentic access (1)

- **University Of Cape Town Agentic Access** — 9 operations · 1 acting

## Security (1)

- **University Of Cape Town Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **University Of Cape Town Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, Research Data, Open Data, Institutional Repository, OAI-PMH, South Africa, Africa

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