University of Freiburg

aid: university-of-freiburg
name: University of Freiburg
description: 'The University of Freiburg (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) is a public research university in Freiburg
  im Breisgau, Germany, founded in 1457 and ranked #212 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. It does not operate a centralized
  public developer portal, but its university library (Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg) exposes several real, publicly reachable
  programmatic interfaces. The FreiDok plus institutional repository offers a JSON API and an OAI-PMH metadata-harvesting
  endpoint, and the FreiData research-data repository (built on InvenioRDM) provides a REST API. These are open, unauthenticated
  read endpoints intended for metadata harvesting and discovery rather than a formal developer program.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-freiburg/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Open Data
- Library
- Germany
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: university-of-freiburg:freidok-json
  name: FreiDok plus JSON API
  description: Read-only JSON API for the FreiDok plus institutional repository and university bibliography, returning publication
    and research-data metadata records. Supports pagination via startitem/maxitems parameters (max 100 items per request).
    Confirmed live returning ~265k publication records.
  humanURL: https://freidok.uni-freiburg.de/_/site/about
  baseURL: https://freidok.uni-freiburg.de/jsonApi/v1/
  tags:
  - Research
  - Repository
  - Bibliography
  - Open Data
  - JSON
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://freidok.uni-freiburg.de/_/site/about
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://pypi.org/project/freidok-cli/
- aid: university-of-freiburg:freidok-oai
  name: FreiDok plus OAI-PMH
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint for the FreiDok plus repository. Supports multiple metadata formats
    including oai_dc, marcxml, xMetaDissPlus, opusButton, and epicur. Used by aggregators such as BASE and bwScienceToShare
    to harvest the university's research metadata.
  humanURL: https://www.ub.uni-freiburg.de/en/open-science/open-access/freidok/
  baseURL: https://freidok.uni-freiburg.de/oai/oai2.php
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata Harvesting
  - Research
  - Repository
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://freidok.uni-freiburg.de/oai/oai2.php?verb=Identify
- aid: university-of-freiburg:freidata-rest
  name: FreiData InvenioRDM REST API
  description: REST API for the FreiData research-data repository, the university's InvenioRDM-based platform for publishing
    and discovering research datasets. Exposes a records search and retrieval API returning JSON, including DOI, file, and
    metadata links.
  humanURL: https://freidata.uni-freiburg.de/
  baseURL: https://freidata.uni-freiburg.de/api/
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - Repository
  - InvenioRDM
  - REST
  - Open Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://freidata.uni-freiburg.de/
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.uni-freiburg.de/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/albert-ludwigs-universitaet-freiburg/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-freiburg-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-freiburg-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-freiburg-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com