University of Leeds

The University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds, United Kingdom, ranked #60 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. With more than 34,000 students and over 7,000 staff, it is a member of the Russell Group of research-intensive universities. Its public developer/API footprint is modest and centered on the Libraries: a live EPrints-based Research Data Leeds Repository exposing an OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint, IIIF-enabled Cultural Collections delivered via a Digirati-built digital library infrastructure, and an active GitHub organisation (uol-library). Library discovery runs on Ex Libris Alma/Primo, whose APIs are vendor-provided rather than institution-documented. No central, self-service developer portal was found.

University of Leeds publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, United Kingdom, and Research Data.

The University of Leeds catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

University of Leeds’ developer surface includes GitHub presence and 7 more developer resources.

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18.9/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

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3 APIs

EducationHigher EducationUniversityUnited KingdomResearch DataLibrariesOAI-PMHIIIF

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Composite quality — 18.9/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 3.2 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.5 / 10

Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 3

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Rate Limits 1

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University Of Leeds Rate Limits

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FinOps 1

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Build 1

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GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 1

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DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

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RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 2

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Website

Website

LinkedIn

Other 1

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Review

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: university-of-leeds
name: University of Leeds
description: 'The University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds, United Kingdom, ranked #60 in the QS World
  University Rankings 2025. With more than 34,000 students and over 7,000 staff, it is a member of the Russell Group of research-intensive
  universities. Its public developer/API footprint is modest and centered on the Libraries: a live EPrints-based Research
  Data Leeds Repository exposing an OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint, IIIF-enabled Cultural Collections delivered via a Digirati-built
  digital library infrastructure, and an active GitHub organisation (uol-library). Library discovery runs on Ex Libris Alma/Primo,
  whose APIs are vendor-provided rather than institution-documented. No central, self-service developer portal was found.'
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/university-of-leeds.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-leeds/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- United Kingdom
- Research Data
- Libraries
- OAI-PMH
- IIIF
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: university-of-leeds:research-data-oai
  name: Research Data Leeds Repository (OAI-PMH)
  description: The institutional research data repository for the University of Leeds, powered by EPrints 3. It exposes a
    live OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint for harvesting Dublin Core and related metadata records describing deposited research datasets,
    plus Atom and RSS feeds. Verified live (HTTP 200) on 2026-06-03 via verb=Identify and verb=ListMetadataFormats.
  humanURL: https://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - OAI-PMH
  - EPrints
  - Metadata
  - Repository
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify
- aid: university-of-leeds:iiif-cultural-collections
  name: Cultural Collections IIIF
  description: The University of Leeds Libraries' Cultural Collections are IIIF-enabled through a digital library infrastructure
    built in partnership with Digirati (IIIF Image API at the access end, OCFL at the preservation end). Tens of thousands
    of digitised manuscripts, rare books, artworks and coins expose IIIF Manifest URLs from their catalogue records. No published
    developer reference or fixed manifest base URL was confirmed; manifests are discovered per-record from the Special Collections
    catalogue.
  humanURL: https://library.leeds.ac.uk/info/1500/special_collections
  tags:
  - IIIF
  - Libraries
  - Digital Collections
  - Images
  - Cultural Heritage
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://library.leeds.ac.uk/info/1500/special_collections
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/uol-library/eprints-iiif-manifest
- aid: university-of-leeds:library-discovery
  name: Library Search (Ex Libris Alma / Primo)
  description: University of Leeds Libraries discovery and resource management run on the Ex Libris Alma library services
    platform with the Primo discovery layer (migrated from Innovative Sierra). Programmatic access is available only through
    the vendor's Alma/Primo REST and SRU APIs, which require institution-issued keys; Leeds publishes no public developer
    documentation for these endpoints.
  humanURL: https://library.leeds.ac.uk/
  tags:
  - Libraries
  - Discovery
  - Alma
  - Primo
  - Ex Libris
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://library.leeds.ac.uk/info/1100/search-resources
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/university-of-leeds-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.leeds.ac.uk/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/uol-library
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-leeds/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-leeds-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-leeds-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-leeds-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

University of Leeds

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APIs 3

Research Data Leeds Repository (OAI-PMH)

Cultural Collections IIIF

Library Search (Ex Libris Alma / Primo)

Pricing Plans 1

University Of Leeds Plans Pricing

Rate Limits 1

University Of Leeds Rate Limits

FinOps 1

University Of Leeds Finops

Semantic Vocabularies 1

University Of Leeds Context

Security Posture 1

University Of Leeds Domain Security

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