University of St Andrews

The University of St Andrews is Scotland's first university (founded 1413) and ranked #90 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer and API footprint is modest and oriented toward research-data interoperability and operational transparency rather than a centralized developer portal. Confirmed public, machine-readable interfaces include a JSON service-status API, an OAI-PMH endpoint for the Pure research information system behind the St Andrews Research Portal, and an OAI-PMH interface for the DSpace-based St Andrews Research Repository. The university also maintains a Research Computing GitHub organization for software produced for and by its researchers.

University of St Andrews publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: Components API, Notices API, and Status API. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Research, and Open Access.

The University of St Andrews catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

University of St Andrews’ developer surface includes GitHub presence, status page, and 9 more developer resources.

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38.0/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 22/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

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5 APIs

EducationHigher EducationUniversityResearchOpen AccessOAI-PMHScotlandUnited Kingdom

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Composite quality — 38.0/100 · thin

Contract Quality 14.4 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13

Governance 7.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 22/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 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 5

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

University Of St Andrews Rate Limits

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RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

JSON Schema 3

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Examples 4

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AGENTIC

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Status

Status

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review

Review

Source (apis.yml)

aid: university-of-st-andrews
name: University of St Andrews
description: 'The University of St Andrews is Scotland''s first university (founded 1413) and ranked #90 in the QS World University
  Rankings 2025. Its public developer and API footprint is modest and oriented toward research-data interoperability and operational
  transparency rather than a centralized developer portal. Confirmed public, machine-readable interfaces include a JSON service-status
  API, an OAI-PMH endpoint for the Pure research information system behind the St Andrews Research Portal, and an OAI-PMH
  interface for the DSpace-based St Andrews Research Repository. The university also maintains a Research Computing GitHub
  organization for software produced for and by its researchers.'
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-st-andrews.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-st-andrews/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Open Access
- OAI-PMH
- Scotland
- United Kingdom
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: university-of-st-andrews:pure-oai
  name: Pure Research Portal OAI-PMH
  description: OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) endpoint for the University of St Andrews
    Pure research information system, which underpins the public St Andrews Research Portal. Allows harvesting of research
    outputs, projects, people, and dataset metadata in standard XML formats.
  humanURL: https://research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/ws/oai
  tags:
  - Research
  - Metadata
  - OAI-PMH
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/research/support/pure/
- aid: university-of-st-andrews:repository-oai
  name: St Andrews Research Repository OAI-PMH
  description: OAI-PMH endpoint for the DSpace-based St Andrews Research Repository, the institution's open-access repository
    of theses, articles, and other research outputs. Supports metadata harvesting via standard verbs and formats (e.g. oai_dc,
    mods, xoai) and set-based selective harvesting.
  humanURL: https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/dspace-oai/request
  tags:
  - Research
  - Repository
  - DSpace
  - Metadata
  - OAI-PMH
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/
- aid: university-of-st-andrews:university-of-st-andrews-components-api
  name: University of St Andrews Components API
  description: System components and their hierarchy.
  humanURL: https://status.st-andrews.ac.uk/api
  baseURL: https://status.st-andrews.ac.uk/api/v1
  tags:
  - Components
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-st-andrews-components-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://status.st-andrews.ac.uk/api
  - type: Status
    url: https://status.st-andrews.ac.uk/
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-st-andrews-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-rules
    url: rules/university-of-st-andrews-rules.yml
  - type: x-json-ld
    url: json-ld/university-of-st-andrews-context.jsonld
- aid: university-of-st-andrews:university-of-st-andrews-notices-api
  name: University of St Andrews Notices API
  description: Incidents and maintenance notices.
  humanURL: https://status.st-andrews.ac.uk/api
  baseURL: https://status.st-andrews.ac.uk/api/v1
  tags:
  - Notices
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-st-andrews-notices-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://status.st-andrews.ac.uk/api
  - type: Status
    url: https://status.st-andrews.ac.uk/
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-st-andrews-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-rules
    url: rules/university-of-st-andrews-rules.yml
  - type: x-json-ld
    url: json-ld/university-of-st-andrews-context.jsonld
- aid: university-of-st-andrews:university-of-st-andrews-status-api
  name: University of St Andrews Status API
  description: Overall page status.
  humanURL: https://status.st-andrews.ac.uk/api
  baseURL: https://status.st-andrews.ac.uk/api/v1
  tags:
  - Status
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-st-andrews-status-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://status.st-andrews.ac.uk/api
  - type: Status
    url: https://status.st-andrews.ac.uk/
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-st-andrews-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-rules
    url: rules/university-of-st-andrews-rules.yml
  - type: x-json-ld
    url: json-ld/university-of-st-andrews-context.jsonld
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/university-of-st-andrews-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/university-of-st-andrews-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/university-of-st-andrews-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/StAResComp
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-st-andrews/
- type: Status
  url: https://status.st-andrews.ac.uk/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-st-andrews-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-st-andrews-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-st-andrews-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com