# University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign **Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/ **Website:** https://illinois.edu/ **APIs profiled:** 8 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. ## Kin Score — 49.5 / 100 (developing) Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: rising (+14.1 from 35.4). | Facet | Score | |---|---| | Discoverability | 74.1 | | Contract Quality | 60.5 | | Governance | 31.8 | | Contract Governance | 31.8 | | Operational Transparency | 10.5 | | Developer Ergonomics | 35.7 | | Commercial Clarity | 34.2 | | Access Clarity | 34.2 | Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 79.6 (matched via tags). ## Agent readiness — 35.0 (agent-ready) | Dimension | Value | |---|---| | Spec Presence | yes | | Agentic Access | derived | | Reversibility Documented | no | | MCP Server | no | | Auth Clarity | yes | | Idempotency | no | | Error Semantics | no | | OpenAPI Examples | verified | | 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 · Institutional affiliation for authenticated surfaces — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high). ## APIs (8) - **Rokwire Core Building Block API** — The identity, account and authorization service at the centre of UIUC's Rokwire platform — accounts, profiles, applications, organizations, service registrations, permissions, r... - **Rokwire Gateway Building Block API** — 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... - **Course Explorer (CISAPI)** — 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 ... - **IDEALS OAI-PMH** — 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... - **Illinois Data Bank Dataset Metadata** — 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... - **Illinois Shibboleth Identity Provider (InCommon)** — 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 ... - **Illinois Experts (Elsevier Pure)** — 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... - **University Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo)** — 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... ## Agentic access (1) - **University Of Illinois Urbana Champaign Agentic Access** — 196 operations · 116 acting · 3 human-in-the-loop ## Security (2) - **University Of Illinois Urbana Champaign Authentication** — http · 1 scheme - **University Of Illinois Urbana Champaign Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC ## Plans (1) - **University Of Illinois Urbana Champaign Plans Pricing** ## 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 --- Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.