# University of Pittsburgh

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/university-of-pittsburgh/  
**Website:** https://www.pitt.edu  
**APIs profiled:** 4

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.

## Kin Score — 17.4 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 17.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 11.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 20.4 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| 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 — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (4)

- **Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center (WPRDC) CKAN API** — 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 standa...
- **Project Tycho API** — Project Tycho, hosted at the University of Pittsburgh, provides standardized global health and epidemiological surveillance data. Its public API supports listing reference varia...
- **PittAPI (community)** — PittAPI is an unofficial, community-maintained Python library (developed by the Pitt Computer Science Club) that retrieves data from University of Pittsburgh sources, including ...
- **D-Scholarship@Pitt OAI-PMH** — 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 programma...

## Security (1)

- **University Of Pittsburgh Domain Security** — TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **University Of Pittsburgh Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, Open Data, Research Data, Library, United States

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-pittsburgh/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.