University of Pittsburgh

aid: university-of-pittsburgh
name: University of Pittsburgh
description: 'The University of Pittsburgh is a public research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, ranked
  #271 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer and API footprint is partly institutional and partly
  community-driven: the university co-operates the Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center (WPRDC), a CKAN-based open data
  portal, and hosts the Project Tycho epidemiological data API. A widely used community Python library, PittAPI, exposes course,
  dining, library and other campus data, and the University Library System publishes an OAI-PMH feed from its D-Scholarship
  institutional repository. The university maintains an official GitHub organization plus several department/research-computing
  orgs.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-pittsburgh/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Open Data
- Research Data
- Library
- United States
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: university-of-pittsburgh:wprdc
  name: Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center (WPRDC) CKAN API
  description: WPRDC is an open data portal operated as a partnership between the University of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County,
    and the City of Pittsburgh. It runs on CKAN and exposes the standard CKAN Action API for searching packages, reading dataset
    metadata, and querying tabular data via the DataStore. Datasets cover government, civic, housing, traffic, and health-related
    topics for the region.
  humanURL: https://data.wprdc.org
  baseURL: https://data.wprdc.org/api/3/action
  tags:
  - Open Data
  - CKAN
  - Civic Data
  - Regional Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.wprdc.org
- aid: university-of-pittsburgh:project-tycho
  name: Project Tycho API
  description: Project Tycho, hosted at the University of Pittsburgh, provides standardized global health and epidemiological
    surveillance data. Its public API supports listing reference variables (conditions, countries, pathogens, geographies)
    and querying datasets, returning results in CSV and the Project Tycho data format. Use of the API requires a free API
    key obtained from the user profile after registration.
  humanURL: https://www.tycho.pitt.edu/dataset/api/
  baseURL: https://www.tycho.pitt.edu/api
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - Health
  - Epidemiology
  - Public Health
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.tycho.pitt.edu/dataset/api/
  - type: Signup
    url: https://www.tycho.pitt.edu
- aid: university-of-pittsburgh:pittapi
  name: PittAPI (community)
  description: PittAPI is an unofficial, community-maintained Python library (developed by the Pitt Computer Science Club)
    that retrieves data from University of Pittsburgh sources, including courses, dining, library, news, laundry, computer
    labs, shuttle routes, the people directory, and textbooks. It is distributed on PyPI and licensed under GPLv2.
  humanURL: https://github.com/pittcsc/PittAPI
  tags:
  - Courses
  - Campus Data
  - Library
  - Python
  - Community
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/pittcsc/PittAPI
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/pittcsc/PittAPI
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://pypi.org/project/PittAPI/
- aid: university-of-pittsburgh:d-scholarship-oai
  name: D-Scholarship@Pitt OAI-PMH
  description: D-Scholarship@Pitt is the University Library System's institutional repository of research and scholarly output.
    It exposes an OAI-PMH metadata harvesting endpoint for programmatic access to repository records. Live HTTP probing returned
    a 403 from an automated client, indicating bot protection rather than a missing endpoint; verify interactively.
  humanURL: https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu
  baseURL: https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/cgi/oai2
  tags:
  - Institutional Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Library
  - Research Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.pitt.edu
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/University-of-Pittsburgh
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-pittsburgh/
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/ulsdevteam
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-pittsburgh-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-pittsburgh-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-pittsburgh-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com