The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is the public land-grant flagship of the University of Illinois System and a founding Big Ten institution. It is one of the few universities in this cohort that genuinely ENGINEERS a public API estate rather than buying one: the Rokwire platform behind the official Illinois app is UIUC's own open-source work, published under Apache 2.0 in github.com/rokwire and deployed on the institution's own host at api.rokwire.illinois.edu, where nine building blocks answer an unauthenticated /version endpoint and two of them (Core 1.62.0, Gateway 2.21.1) publish OpenAPI 3.0 through Swagger UI. Around it sit four more institution-operated machine-readable surfaces: the Course Information Suite (CISAPI) Course Explorer, which serves class schedule and catalog XML with no authentication; the IDEALS institutional repository's OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint, running on Illinois Library's own Rails application rather than a vendor platform; the Illinois Data Bank, an in-house research data repository that has minted 1,306 DataCite DOIs under prefix 10.13012 and exposes its catalog as JSON; and the campus Shibboleth identity provider, registered in InCommon as urn:mace:incommon:uiuc.edu. The estate is real but uneven — errors are documented in prose with no schemas, no deprecation policy or Sunset header exists anywhere, seven live Rokwire building blocks ship no contract at all, and illinois.edu answers /llms.txt and /.well-known/security.txt with a soft-404 that returns HTTP 200. Research profiles (Illinois Experts / Elsevier Pure) and library discovery (Ex Libris Primo) are vendor platforms recorded here as tenant relationships: the data is the university's, the contract is not.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network: Rokwire Core Building Block API and Rokwire Gateway Building Block API. Tagged areas include University, Higher Education, Education, Public Research University, and United States.
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s developer surface includes API reference, documentation, GitHub presence, status page, support, engineering blog, authentication, and 31 more developer resources.
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the
Education & Research regime, so
Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite.
If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your
provider repo — the
applicability map is public and we will correct it.
The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them,
because the conditional facet above carries the other
15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped
maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal
weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.
The identity, account and authorization service at the centre of UIUC's Rokwire platform — accounts, profiles, applications, organizations, service registrations, permissions, r...
The Rokwire service that fronts external and campus systems for the Illinois app — wayfinding and building/floorplan data, campus data streams, and third-party service integrati...
The Course Information Suite API — RESTful resources over Class Schedule and Course Catalog data, organised as Schedule, Catalog, GenEd, Term and Subjects modules and served as ...
The OAI-PMH 2.0 data provider for IDEALS, the Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship. Identify reports repositoryName "IDEALS @ University of Illino...
The campus research data repository, built and run in-house by the University Library (github.com/medusa-project/databank, Ruby on Rails) rather than bought from Figshare, Dryad...
The campus SAML identity provider — the one surface a university operates by definition and almost never has catalogued. https://shibboleth.illinois.edu/idp/shibboleth serves a ...
TENANT RELATIONSHIP, not a UIUC contract. Illinois Experts is the university's research information and expert-profile portal, and the data in it — people, publications, project...
TENANT RELATIONSHIP, not a UIUC contract. Library discovery at Illinois runs on Ex Libris Primo — search.library.illinois.edu redirects into primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery wi...
aid: university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign
name: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
description: 'The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is the public land-grant flagship of the University of Illinois
System and a founding Big Ten institution. It is one of the few universities in this cohort that genuinely ENGINEERS a public
API estate rather than buying one: the Rokwire platform behind the official Illinois app is UIUC''s own open-source work,
published under Apache 2.0 in github.com/rokwire and deployed on the institution''s own host at api.rokwire.illinois.edu,
where nine building blocks answer an unauthenticated /version endpoint and two of them (Core 1.62.0, Gateway 2.21.1) publish
OpenAPI 3.0 through Swagger UI. Around it sit four more institution-operated machine-readable surfaces: the Course Information
Suite (CISAPI) Course Explorer, which serves class schedule and catalog XML with no authentication; the IDEALS institutional
repository''s OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint, running on Illinois Library''s own Rails application rather than a vendor platform;
the Illinois Data Bank, an in-house research data repository that has minted 1,306 DataCite DOIs under prefix 10.13012 and
exposes its catalog as JSON; and the campus Shibboleth identity provider, registered in InCommon as urn:mace:incommon:uiuc.edu.
The estate is real but uneven — errors are documented in prose with no schemas, no deprecation policy or Sunset header exists
anywhere, seven live Rokwire building blocks ship no contract at all, and illinois.edu answers /llms.txt and /.well-known/security.txt
with a soft-404 that returns HTTP 200. Research profiles (Illinois Experts / Elsevier Pure) and library discovery (Ex Libris
Primo) are vendor platforms recorded here as tenant relationships: the data is the university''s, the contract is not.'
type: Index
accessModel:
pricing: free
onboarding: self-serve
trial: false
try_now: true
public: false
label: Free · Institutional affiliation for authenticated surfaces
confidence: high
source:
- plans
- authentication
generated: '2026-08-19'
method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- University
- Higher Education
- Education
- Public Research University
- United States
- Illinois
- Big Ten
- Land-Grant University
- Course Catalog
- Research Data
- Research Repository
- Open Data
- Identity Federation
- OAI-PMH
- Library
- Research Computing
- Open-Source
tags_raw:
- University
- Higher Education
- Education
- Public Research University
- United States
- Illinois
- Big Ten
- Land-Grant University
- Course Catalog
- Research Data
- Research Repository
- Open Data
- Identity Federation
- OAI-PMH
- Library
- Research Computing
- Open Source
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
x-coverage:
state: covered
reason: null
detail: 'No wall. Every institution-operated surface claimed here was fetched and read, not linked: both Rokwire OpenAPI
documents and nine live /version endpoints on api.rokwire.illinois.edu, the Course Explorer XML, the IDEALS OAI-PMH Identify/ListMetadataFormats/ListSets
responses, the Illinois Data Bank catalog JSON (1,259 released datasets) and its DataCite registration, and the Shibboleth
IdP metadata both on the campus host and through the InCommon metadata query service. Negative results are equally probed:
illinois.edu returns HTTP 200 with a "404 - Page not found" body for /llms.txt and /.well-known/security.txt, so neither
was credited. Two vendor tenancies (Elsevier Pure, Ex Libris Primo) were identified by fingerprinting the served page
and are recorded as relationships without importing the vendors'' contracts. Remaining gap is a harvest backlog, not a
wall: seven live Rokwire building blocks (calendar, social, notifications, appointments, content, surveys, polls) are
catalogued in lifecycle/ but have no contract in this repo yet.'
evidence:
- url: https://api.rokwire.illinois.edu/core/version
status: 200
- url: https://api.rokwire.illinois.edu/gateway/doc/ui/
status: 200
- url: https://api.rokwire.illinois.edu/core/.well-known/openid-configuration
status: 200
- url: https://api.rokwire.illinois.edu/gateway/api/wayfinding/buildings
status: 401
- url: https://courses.illinois.edu/cisapp/explorer/schedule.xml
status: 200
- url: https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/oai-pmh?verb=Identify
status: 200
- url: https://databank.illinois.edu/datasets.json
status: 200
- url: https://api.datacite.org/clients/illinois.databank
status: 200
- url: https://shibboleth.illinois.edu/idp/shibboleth
status: 200
- url: https://mdq.incommon.org/entities/urn:mace:incommon:uiuc.edu
status: 200
- url: https://illinois.edu/llms.txt
status: 200
- url: https://illinois.edu/.well-known/security.txt
status: 404
checked: '2026-08-19'
apis:
- aid: university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign:rokwire-core-building-block
name: Rokwire Core Building Block API
x-operator: institution
description: The identity, account and authorization service at the centre of UIUC's Rokwire platform — accounts, profiles,
applications, organizations, service registrations, permissions, roles and scopes. Written and operated by the university,
deployed at api.rokwire.illinois.edu/core, and published as Apache-2.0 source in github.com/rokwire/core-building-block.
Version 1.62.0, 105 paths / 151 operations, bearer JWT throughout, with a minimal OIDC discovery document and a live JWKS.
The repo holds the pristine specification in openapi/_original/ plus nine tag-refined slices.
humanURL: https://api.rokwire.illinois.edu/core/doc/ui/
baseURL: https://api.rokwire.illinois.edu/core
tags:
- Identity
- Authentication
- Authorization
- Account
- Rokwire
- Open-Source
tags_raw:
- Identity
- Authentication
- Authorization
- Accounts
- Rokwire
- Open Source
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-services-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-admin-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-system-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-bbs-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-third-party-services-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-enc-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-ui-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-version-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-well-known-api-openapi.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://api.rokwire.illinois.edu/core/doc/ui/
- type: SourceCode
url: https://github.com/rokwire/core-building-block
- aid: university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign:rokwire-gateway-building-block
name: Rokwire Gateway Building Block API
x-operator: institution
description: The Rokwire service that fronts external and campus systems for the Illinois app — wayfinding and building/floorplan
data, campus data streams, and third-party service integration. University-written, deployed at api.rokwire.illinois.edu/gateway,
source at github.com/rokwire/gateway-building-block under Apache 2.0. Version 2.21.1, 34 paths / 45 operations. An anonymous
call to /api/wayfinding/buildings returns 401 with the Rokwire error envelope, confirming the surface is live and bearer-gated
rather than absent.
humanURL: https://api.rokwire.illinois.edu/gateway/doc/ui/
baseURL: https://api.rokwire.illinois.edu/gateway
tags:
- Wayfinding
- Campus
- Integration
- Buildings
- Rokwire
- Open-Source
tags_raw:
- Wayfinding
- Campus
- Integration
- Buildings
- Rokwire
- Open Source
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-client-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-tps-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-default-api-openapi.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://api.rokwire.illinois.edu/gateway/doc/ui/
- type: SourceCode
url: https://github.com/rokwire/gateway-building-block
- aid: university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign:cisapi-course-explorer
name: Course Explorer (CISAPI)
x-operator: institution
description: 'The Course Information Suite API — RESTful resources over Class Schedule and Course Catalog data, organised
as Schedule, Catalog, GenEd, Term and Subjects modules and served as XML in a campus-local namespace (http://rest.cis.illinois.edu).
No authentication, no rate limit published, no versioning: content versions by academic term rather than by API version.
Operated by the university on its own host. No OpenAPI is published for it and none is derived here.'
humanURL: https://courses.illinois.edu/cisdocs/api
baseURL: https://courses.illinois.edu/cisapp/explorer
tags:
- Course Catalog
- Courses
- Schedule
- Registrar
- Open Data
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://courses.illinois.edu/cisdocs/api
- type: Website
url: https://courses.illinois.edu/cisdocs/
- aid: university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign:ideals-oai-pmh
name: IDEALS OAI-PMH
x-operator: institution
description: The OAI-PMH 2.0 data provider for IDEALS, the Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship.
Identify reports repositoryName "IDEALS @ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign", adminEmail ideals@library.illinois.edu,
earliestDatestamp 2022-06-06, deletedRecord "persistent" and second-granularity datestamps; four metadata formats are
served (oai_dc, qdc, etdms, native) across 100 sets. Institution-operated rather than tenant — the repository runs on
Illinois Library's own Rails codebase (github.com/medusa-project/ideals), not on a vendor repository platform.
humanURL: https://guides.library.illinois.edu/ideals
baseURL: https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/oai-pmh
tags:
- Research Repository
- OAI-PMH
- Library
- Metadata
- Open Data
- Dublin Core
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://guides.library.illinois.edu/ideals
- type: Website
url: https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/
- type: SourceCode
url: https://github.com/medusa-project
- aid: university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign:illinois-data-bank
name: Illinois Data Bank Dataset Metadata
x-operator: institution
description: 'The campus research data repository, built and run in-house by the University Library (github.com/medusa-project/databank,
Ruby on Rails) rather than bought from Figshare, Dryad or Dataverse — which makes it one of the few genuinely institution-ENGINEERED
research repositories in this cohort. Its catalog is machine-readable without authentication: /datasets.json returns all
1,259 released datasets with identifier, subject, publication and hold state, timestamps, citation and a per-dataset JSON
URL. As a registered DataCite repository (client illinois.databank, member since 2018) it has minted 1,306 DOIs under
prefix 10.13012, 1,082 of which carry ORCID creator identifiers. There is no published API reference, no OAI-PMH endpoint
on this host, and /api/* is a soft-404.'
humanURL: https://databank.illinois.edu/help
baseURL: https://databank.illinois.edu
tags:
- Research Data
- Open Data
- DataCite
- ORCID
- Repository
- DOI
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://databank.illinois.edu/help
- type: Website
url: https://databank.illinois.edu/
- type: SourceCode
url: https://github.com/medusa-project
- aid: university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign:incommon-shibboleth-idp
name: Illinois Shibboleth Identity Provider (InCommon)
x-operator: institution
description: The campus SAML identity provider — the one surface a university operates by definition and almost never has
catalogued. https://shibboleth.illinois.edu/idp/shibboleth serves a Shibboleth EntityDescriptor with entityID urn:mace:incommon:uiuc.edu,
an IDPSSODescriptor supporting SAML 1.1 and SAML 2.0, and shibmd:Scope illinois.edu; the signing certificate is issued
to shibboleth.illinois.edu, O=University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, OU=CITES. The same entity resolves through the
InCommon metadata query service, so federated relying parties can consume it without a bilateral exchange. Machine-readable,
unauthenticated, and stable.
humanURL: https://techservices.illinois.edu/
baseURL: https://shibboleth.illinois.edu/idp/shibboleth
tags:
- Identity Federation
- Shibboleth
- SAML
- InCommon
- eduGAIN
- Single Sign-On
properties:
- type: Metadata
url: https://shibboleth.illinois.edu/idp/shibboleth
- type: Metadata
url: https://mdq.incommon.org/entities/urn:mace:incommon:uiuc.edu
- type: Documentation
url: https://techservices.illinois.edu/
- aid: university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign:illinois-experts
name: Illinois Experts (Elsevier Pure)
x-operator: tenant
x-vendor: Elsevier
x-vendor-platform: Pure / Pure Portal
description: 'TENANT RELATIONSHIP, not a UIUC contract. Illinois Experts is the university''s research information and expert-profile
portal, and the data in it — people, publications, projects, units — is the university''s. The software is Elsevier Pure:
the served page identifies itself as "Pure Portal" and carries the Elsevier Fingerprint Engine, and the Pure web service
under /ws/api redirects rather than answering anonymously. The Pure API contract belongs in Elsevier''s own repo and is
deliberately NOT saved here. Recorded because operating a research information system is a real institutional fact and
one of the few programmable surfaces most universities have.'
humanURL: https://experts.illinois.edu/
baseURL: https://experts.illinois.edu/ws/api
tags:
- Research Information
- Expert Profiles
- Pure
- Elsevier
- Tenant
properties:
- type: Website
url: https://experts.illinois.edu/
- type: TermsOfService
url: https://publish.illinois.edu/experts-help/terms-of-use/
- aid: university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign:library-discovery
name: University Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo)
x-operator: tenant
x-vendor: Ex Libris (Clarivate)
x-vendor-platform: Primo VE
description: TENANT RELATIONSHIP, not a UIUC contract. Library discovery at Illinois runs on Ex Libris Primo — search.library.illinois.edu
redirects into primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery with an Illinois view. The holdings and the view configuration are the
university's; the discovery and Alma APIs are Ex Libris'. No vendor specification is saved under this institution.
humanURL: https://www.library.illinois.edu/
baseURL: https://search.library.illinois.edu/discovery
tags:
- Library
- Discovery
- Primo
- Ex Libris
- Tenant
properties:
- type: Website
url: https://search.library.illinois.edu/discovery
common:
- type: Website
url: https://illinois.edu/
- type: About
url: https://illinois.edu/about
- type: APIReference
url: https://api.rokwire.illinois.edu/core/doc/ui/
- type: Documentation
url: https://api.rokwire.illinois.edu/gateway/doc/ui/
- type: GitHubOrganization
url: https://github.com/rokwire
- type: GitHub
url: https://github.com/illinois
- type: SourceCode
url: https://github.com/medusa-project
- type: LinkedIn
url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-illinois-at-urbana-champaign/
- type: Status
url: https://status.illinois.edu/
- type: Support
url: https://help.uillinois.edu/
- type: Blog
url: https://news.illinois.edu/feed/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
url: https://www.library.illinois.edu/geninfo/policies/p_policy/
- type: TermsOfService
url: https://publish.illinois.edu/experts-help/terms-of-use/
- type: CourseCatalog
url: https://courses.illinois.edu/cisdocs/api
- type: ResearchRepository
url: https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/
- type: OpenData
url: https://databank.illinois.edu/
- type: LibraryCatalog
url: https://search.library.illinois.edu/discovery
- type: IdentityFederation
url: https://shibboleth.illinois.edu/idp/shibboleth
- type: ResearchComputing
url: https://ncsa.illinois.edu/
- type: AIPolicy
url: https://genai.illinois.edu/
- type: AITooling
url: https://techservices.illinois.edu/
- type: Policies
url: https://cio.illinois.edu/
- type: AgenticAccess
url: agentic-access/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-authentication.yml
- type: Scopes
url: scopes/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-scopes.yml
- type: Errors
url: errors/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-problem-types.yml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-lifecycle.yml
- type: Rules
url: rules/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-rules.yml
- type: Vocabulary
url: vocabulary/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-vocabulary.yml
- type: JSONLD
url: json-ld/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-context.jsonld
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-organization-schema.json
- type: Examples
url: examples/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-organization-example.json
- type: Plans
url: plans/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
url: rate-limits/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
url: finops/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-finops.yml
- type: Review
url: review.yml
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