The University of Waikato (Te Whare Wananga o Waikato) is a public research university in Hamilton and Tauranga, Aotearoa New Zealand, founded in 1964. It runs no developer programme, no developer portal and no self-serve public API, and this profile says so plainly. What it does operate itself is narrow but real and unusually well evidenced for this cohort: an OpenID Connect provider of its own on api.svc.waikato.ac.nz/uowidp/v1, publishing a live discovery document and JWKS and used by the university's own Blazor timetable and its MyWaikato student portal; Research Commons, a DSpace 7.6.5 institutional repository on its own host serving a DSpace REST API and an OAI-PMH 2.0 interface with twelve metadata formats back to 1972; a One-Time Secret API run by IT Services with documented endpoints under HTTP Basic against a Stella account; a Moodle LMS acting as an LTI 1.3 platform with live platform keys; and the UFDL deep-learning framework API from the Computing and Mathematical Sciences faculty, alongside four active GitHub organisations (Waikato, waikato-ufdl, waikato-datamining, waikato-llm) that include WEKA. Its identity is federated twice over — a Shibboleth IdP entity registered in Tuakiri since 2012 with REFEDS Research & Scholarship and Sirtfi, exported to eduGAIN, and a Microsoft Entra ID tenant that is the live SAML issuer for eLearn. The university also publishes an llms.txt with explicit attribution and generative-model usage terms, which almost no institution in this cohort does. Everything else that looks like a Waikato API is a tenancy on somebody else's platform — Symplectic Discovery behind profiles.waikato.ac.nz, Ex Libris Primo VE, Springshare LibGuides behind libraryguides.waikato.ac.nz, and waikato.figshare.com — and is recorded here as a relationship, never as a University of Waikato contract.
University of Waikato publishes 16 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Authentication API, Discovery API, Session API, and 13 more. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, New Zealand, and Research.
The University of Waikato catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
University of Waikato’s developer surface includes GitHub presence, support, engineering blog, authentication, and 24 more developer resources.
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OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for Research Commons, the university's open-access institutional repository, on the institution's own host. Verified live 2026-09-01: v...
DSpace 7.6.5 REST API backing Research Commons, giving programmatic access to communities, collections, items, bitstreams and discovery search over the university's theses and r...
eLearn, the university's Moodle learning management system on its own registrable domain, acts as an LTI 1.3 platform. Verified live 2026-09-01: /mod/lti/certs.php returns HTTP ...
A One-Time Secret service run by University of Waikato IT Services on its own host, for sharing a secret that can be retrieved exactly once. The published API page enumerates a ...
JSON REST API for the User-friendly Deep Learning framework built by the University of Waikato's Faculty of Computing and Mathematical Sciences to make deep learning accessible ...
The University of Waikato's Shibboleth Identity Provider, entityID https://idp.waikato.ac.nz/idp/shibboleth, registered in the signed Tuakiri (New Zealand Access Federation) met...
The university's Microsoft Entra ID tenant, 220f5dc3-9452-48e5-9b4f-888df42f7a2d, is the identity source behind both the uowidp OpenID Connect provider and the eLearn Moodle SAM...
The University of Waikato is a Crossref member — member id 6347, primary name "University of Waikato", DOI prefix 10.15663. Verified 2026-09-01 against api.crossref.org/members....
The University of Waikato is registered in the Research Organization Registry as https://ror.org/013fsnh78, with names "University of Waikato" and "Te Whare Wananga o Waikato" a...
profiles.waikato.ac.nz is the university's researcher-profile and research-information service, and it is a tenancy: the host CNAMEs to waikato.discovery.symplectic.org, on Digi...
The University of Waikato Library's discovery layer is a named tenancy on Ex Libris's shared Primo VE platform — waikato.primo.exlibrisgroup.com with view code vid=64WAIKATO_INS...
waikato.figshare.com resolves (CNAME to figshare.com) and answers HTTP 202 with an empty body — a bot-management challenge, so the tenancy is live but not readable by us. This i...
libraryguides.waikato.ac.nz, which hosts the library's subject guides including its "Using Generative AI in Academic Study" guide, CNAMEs to region-au.libguides.com — a tenancy ...
Not yet checked against University of Waikato's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-06-03 from raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-wa...; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.
aid: university-of-waikato
name: University of Waikato
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
description: 'The University of Waikato (Te Whare Wananga o Waikato) is a public research university in Hamilton and Tauranga,
Aotearoa New Zealand, founded in 1964. It runs no developer programme, no developer portal and no self-serve public API,
and this profile says so plainly. What it does operate itself is narrow but real and unusually well evidenced for this cohort:
an OpenID Connect provider of its own on api.svc.waikato.ac.nz/uowidp/v1, publishing a live discovery document and JWKS
and used by the university''s own Blazor timetable and its MyWaikato student portal; Research Commons, a DSpace 7.6.5 institutional
repository on its own host serving a DSpace REST API and an OAI-PMH 2.0 interface with twelve metadata formats back to 1972;
a One-Time Secret API run by IT Services with documented endpoints under HTTP Basic against a Stella account; a Moodle LMS
acting as an LTI 1.3 platform with live platform keys; and the UFDL deep-learning framework API from the Computing and Mathematical
Sciences faculty, alongside four active GitHub organisations (Waikato, waikato-ufdl, waikato-datamining, waikato-llm) that
include WEKA. Its identity is federated twice over — a Shibboleth IdP entity registered in Tuakiri since 2012 with REFEDS
Research & Scholarship and Sirtfi, exported to eduGAIN, and a Microsoft Entra ID tenant that is the live SAML issuer for
eLearn. The university also publishes an llms.txt with explicit attribution and generative-model usage terms, which almost
no institution in this cohort does. Everything else that looks like a Waikato API is a tenancy on somebody else''s platform
— Symplectic Discovery behind profiles.waikato.ac.nz, Ex Libris Primo VE, Springshare LibGuides behind libraryguides.waikato.ac.nz,
and waikato.figshare.com — and is recorded here as a relationship, never as a University of Waikato contract.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
model: saas
license_evidence:
not_product:
- waikato/waikato-repositories
open_source: unknown
commercial: true
callable_host: true
label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
confidence: low
source:
- openapi
- pricing
- repository-not-product
generated: '2026-09-25'
method: derived
accessModel:
pricing: free
onboarding: none
trial: false
try_now: false
public: false
label: No public developer programme · open protocol endpoints, otherwise affiliation-gated
confidence: high
source:
- probed
- plans
generated: '2026-09-01'
method: probed
position: Consuming
access: Internal
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/university-of-waikato.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-waikato/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- New Zealand
- Research
- Research Repository
- Open Access
- OAI-PMH
- Identity Federation
- SAML
- LMS
- Machine Learning
tags_raw:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- New Zealand
- Research
- Research Repository
- Open Access
- OAI-PMH
- Identity Federation
- SAML
- Learning Management
- Machine Learning
- Machine-Learning
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-09-01'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: university-of-waikato:research-commons-oai
name: Research Commons OAI-PMH
x-operator: institution
description: 'OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for Research Commons, the university''s open-access institutional
repository, on the institution''s own host. Verified live 2026-09-01: verb=Identify returns protocolVersion 2.0, repositoryName
"Research Commons", repositoryIdentifier researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz, sampleIdentifier oai:researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz:10289/1234
(Handle prefix 10289), deletedRecord transient and earliestDatestamp 1972-12-31. verb=ListMetadataFormats advertises didl,
dim, etdms, marc, mets, mods, oai_dc, ore, qdc, rdf, uketd_dc and xoai. The adminEmail is data@prosentient.com.au — the
DSpace deployment is managed for the university by Prosentient Systems. The host, the Handle namespace and the content
are the institution''s; the OAI-PMH protocol is OpenArchives'' and no contract is claimed for it.'
humanURL: https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/
baseURL: https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/server/oai/request
tags:
- OAI-PMH
- Metadata Harvesting
- Repository
- Open Access
- DSpace
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
- type: x-conformance
url: conformance/university-of-waikato-conformance.yml
- type: Examples
url: examples/university-of-waikato-protocol-endpoints-example.json
- aid: university-of-waikato:research-commons-rest
name: Research Commons DSpace REST API
x-operator: institution
description: 'DSpace 7.6.5 REST API backing Research Commons, giving programmatic access to communities, collections, items,
bitstreams and discovery search over the university''s theses and research outputs. Verified live 2026-09-01: the API
root returns HTTP 200 with dspaceName "Research Commons", dspaceVersion "DSpace 7.6.5" and a HAL document advertising
65 links. No ORCID endpoints are exposed. The contract is DSpace''s — the same REST contract every DSpace 7 deployment
ships — so no OpenAPI is saved under this institution; what is Waikato''s is the deployment, the host and the content.'
humanURL: https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/
baseURL: https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/server/api
tags:
- Repository
- DSpace
- Research
- Open Access
- Scholarly
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/server/api
- type: Examples
url: examples/university-of-waikato-protocol-endpoints-example.json
- aid: university-of-waikato:elearn-lti
name: eLearn LTI 1.3 Platform (Moodle)
x-operator: institution
description: 'eLearn, the university''s Moodle learning management system on its own registrable domain, acts as an LTI
1.3 platform. Verified live 2026-09-01: /mod/lti/certs.php returns HTTP 200 with a JSON Web Key Set carrying one RSA key
(alg RS256, kid 9b45a1370943b0323a6b), /mod/lti/auth.php responds HTTP 200, and /mod/lti/token.php returns HTTP 400 to
a parameterless GET. Moodle''s REST web service endpoint is enabled and returns its standard missingparam fault without
a wstoken. Unauthenticated access to the LMS itself redirects to the university''s Microsoft Entra ID tenant over SAML
2.0. The LTI implementation is Moodle''s; the deployment, the keys and the tool registrations are the institution''s.
This is the estate''s evidence for the `lti` domain standard in the Kin Score education regime.'
humanURL: https://elearn.waikato.ac.nz/
baseURL: https://elearn.waikato.ac.nz/mod/lti/certs.php
tags:
- LMS
- LTI
- Moodle
- Authentication
tags_raw:
- Learning Management
- LTI
- Moodle
- Authentication
properties:
- type: x-conformance
url: conformance/university-of-waikato-conformance.yml
- type: Examples
url: examples/university-of-waikato-protocol-endpoints-example.json
- aid: university-of-waikato:ots
name: One-Time Secret (OTS) API
x-operator: institution
description: A One-Time Secret service run by University of Waikato IT Services on its own host, for sharing a secret that
can be retrieved exactly once. The published API page enumerates a complete endpoint set on the institution's base URI
https://otis.its.waikato.ac.nz/api — GET /v1/status, POST /v1/share, POST /v1/generate, POST /v1/secret/{key}, POST /v1/private/{metadata_key},
POST /v1/private/{metadata_key}/burn and GET /v1/private/recent — all JSON over HTTPS under HTTP Basic with a Stella account
username and an API token. Verified live 2026-09-01, HTTP 200; the page marks itself "BETA API - updated 2017-04-27".
The software is the open-source One-Time Secret application, so the API shape originates with that project rather than
with the university; no OpenAPI is generated under this institution for it. The deployment, the host and the institutional
credential are Waikato's.
humanURL: https://otis.its.waikato.ac.nz/docs/api
baseURL: https://otis.its.waikato.ac.nz/api
tags:
- Security
- Secrets
- IT Services
- Utility
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://otis.its.waikato.ac.nz/docs/api
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/university-of-waikato-authentication.yml
- aid: university-of-waikato:ufdl
name: User-friendly Deep Learning (UFDL) API
x-operator: institution
description: 'JSON REST API for the User-friendly Deep Learning framework built by the University of Waikato''s Faculty
of Computing and Mathematical Sciences to make deep learning accessible to domain experts. Documentation covers authentication,
projects, teams and users; CUDA, Docker images, frameworks, hardware, licences, nodes and pretrained models; job templates,
jobs, job outputs and job types; and datasets for image classification, image segmentation, object detection and speech,
plus filtering and permissions. Verified live 2026-09-01, HTTP 200. Institution-built and institution-owned: the documentation
host ufdl.cms.waikato.ac.nz CNAMEs to waikato-ufdl.github.io, a GitHub Pages site under the university''s own faculty
organisation — a code host, not a vendor. The project''s own documentation states it is work in progress; no machine-readable
specification is published and none is generated here.'
humanURL: https://ufdl.cms.waikato.ac.nz/ufdl-api/
tags:
- Machine Learning
- Deep Learning
- Research
- Data Science
tags_raw:
- Machine Learning
- Deep Learning
- Research
- Data Science
- Machine-Learning
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://ufdl.cms.waikato.ac.nz/ufdl-api/
- type: GitHub
url: https://github.com/waikato-ufdl
- aid: university-of-waikato:tuakiri-idp
name: Waikato SAML 2.0 Identity Provider in Tuakiri
x-operator: federation
description: 'The University of Waikato''s Shibboleth Identity Provider, entityID https://idp.waikato.ac.nz/idp/shibboleth,
registered in the signed Tuakiri (New Zealand Access Federation) metadata aggregate since 2012-10-15 under registrationAuthority
https://tuakiri.ac.nz/. The entry carries mdui:DisplayName "The University of Waikato", shibmd:Scope waikato.ac.nz, the
REFEDS Research & Scholarship entity category and REFEDS Sirtfi assurance certification, and it is exported to eduGAIN
— verified in both aggregates 2026-09-01. The identity, the users and the attribute release are the institution''s. The
IdP deployment is not: every SingleSignOnService and SingleLogoutService Location resolves to hosted-login.tuakiri.ac.nz/hosting/waikato.ac.nz/idp/
and the signing certificate CN is hosted-login.tuakiri.ac.nz/hosting/waikato.ac.nz, so the university runs on REANNZ''s
Tuakiri Hosted IdP service. Recorded as the institution''s federation membership, not as its engineering.'
humanURL: https://tuakiri.ac.nz/
baseURL: https://directory.tuakiri.ac.nz/metadata/tuakiri-metadata-signed.xml
x-deployment-host: hosted-login.tuakiri.ac.nz/hosting/waikato.ac.nz/idp/ (REANNZ Tuakiri Hosted IdP)
tags:
- Identity Federation
- SAML
- Shibboleth
- SSO
- Metadata
tags_raw:
- Identity Federation
- SAML
- Shibboleth
- Single Sign-On
- Metadata
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://directory.tuakiri.ac.nz/metadata/tuakiri-metadata-signed.xml
- type: x-conformance
url: conformance/university-of-waikato-conformance.yml
- aid: university-of-waikato:entra-tenant
name: University of Waikato Microsoft Entra ID Tenant
x-operator: federation
description: 'The university''s Microsoft Entra ID tenant, 220f5dc3-9452-48e5-9b4f-888df42f7a2d, is the identity source
behind both the uowidp OpenID Connect provider and the eLearn Moodle SAML login. Verified live 2026-09-01: the tenant
OpenID configuration returns HTTP 200 with issuer https://login.microsoftonline.com/220f5dc3-9452-48e5-9b4f-888df42f7a2d/v2.0,
tenant_region_scope OC; the WS-Federation/SAML 2.0 federation metadata returns HTTP 200 and 28,441 bytes; and an unauthenticated
request to elearn.waikato.ac.nz redirects to the tenant''s saml2 endpoint with a signed RSA-SHA256 AuthnRequest. The tenant
is the institution''s; the platform and its contract are Microsoft''s, and nothing is saved here under Waikato''s slug
for it.'
humanURL: https://www.waikato.ac.nz/students/it-services/
baseURL: https://login.microsoftonline.com/220f5dc3-9452-48e5-9b4f-888df42f7a2d/v2.0
tags:
- Identity Federation
- SAML
- OpenID Connect
- Entra ID
- SSO
tags_raw:
- Identity Federation
- SAML
- OpenID Connect
- Entra ID
- Single Sign-On
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://login.microsoftonline.com/220f5dc3-9452-48e5-9b4f-888df42f7a2d/v2.0/.well-known/openid-configuration
- type: x-conformance
url: conformance/university-of-waikato-conformance.yml
- aid: university-of-waikato:crossref-member
name: Crossref Membership (member 6347)
x-operator: registry
description: 'The University of Waikato is a Crossref member — member id 6347, primary name "University of Waikato", DOI
prefix 10.15663. Verified 2026-09-01 against api.crossref.org/members. This is a membership the institution holds in a
shared identifier registry and is a fact about the institution, not a misattribution: Crossref''s API is Crossref''s and
no contract is saved here. Recorded because DOI registration is a real, machine-readable institutional surface and the
`crossref` domain standard in the Kin Score education regime reads exactly this.'
humanURL: https://www.crossref.org/
baseURL: https://api.crossref.org/members/6347
tags:
- Identifiers
- DOI
- Scholarly
- Registry
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://api.crossref.org/members/6347
- type: x-conformance
url: conformance/university-of-waikato-conformance.yml
- aid: university-of-waikato:ror
name: ROR Registration (ror.org/013fsnh78)
x-operator: registry
description: The University of Waikato is registered in the Research Organization Registry as https://ror.org/013fsnh78,
with names "University of Waikato" and "Te Whare Wananga o Waikato" and website https://www.waikato.ac.nz. Verified 2026-09-01
against the ROR v2 API. ROR is a registry the institution is registered in, shared by every research organisation in the
world; the record about Waikato is theirs, the API is ROR's, and no contract is saved here.
humanURL: https://ror.org/013fsnh78
baseURL: https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations/013fsnh78
tags:
- Identifiers
- Registry
- Research
- Open Data
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations/013fsnh78
- aid: university-of-waikato:symplectic-discovery
name: Waikato Research Profiles on Symplectic Discovery (tenant)
x-operator: tenant
description: 'profiles.waikato.ac.nz is the university''s researcher-profile and research-information service, and it is
a tenancy: the host CNAMEs to waikato.discovery.symplectic.org, on Digital Science''s Symplectic Discovery platform (image
tag web-v7.2.0.2 observed in the served markup). Verified live 2026-09-01, HTTP 200. The researchers, the outputs and
the curation are the institution''s; the application and any API contract are Symplectic''s, served from Symplectic infrastructure,
and are not saved under this institution. /api on that host returns the SPA shell, not an API — a soft 200, credited to
nobody. This tenancy was not visible to the host-based audit because the hostname is under waikato.ac.nz; it was found
by DNS resolution during this run.'
humanURL: https://profiles.waikato.ac.nz/
baseURL: https://profiles.waikato.ac.nz/
tags:
- Research Information
- Researcher Profiles
- Symplectic
- Tenants
tags_raw:
- Research Information
- Researcher Profiles
- Symplectic
- Tenant
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://profiles.waikato.ac.nz/
- aid: university-of-waikato:primo-discovery
name: Waikato Library Discovery on Ex Libris Primo VE (tenant)
x-operator: tenant
description: The University of Waikato Library's discovery layer is a named tenancy on Ex Libris's shared Primo VE platform
— waikato.primo.exlibrisgroup.com with view code vid=64WAIKATO_INST:64WAIKATO, verified live 2026-09-01, HTTP 200. The
collection, the holdings and the institution view are the university's; the Primo and Alma API contracts are Ex Libris's
and belong in Ex Libris's own repository, not here. Recorded as a relationship so the institution gets credit for operating
a library discovery surface without being credited for Ex Libris's engineering.
humanURL: https://waikato.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=64WAIKATO_INST:64WAIKATO
baseURL: https://waikato.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/
tags:
- Library
- Discovery
- Ex Libris
- Primo
- Tenants
tags_raw:
- Library
- Discovery
- Ex Libris
- Primo
- Tenant
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.waikato.ac.nz/students/library/
- aid: university-of-waikato:figshare-tenant
name: Waikato Figshare Research Data Repository (tenant)
x-operator: tenant
description: waikato.figshare.com resolves (CNAME to figshare.com) and answers HTTP 202 with an empty body — a bot-management
challenge, so the tenancy is live but not readable by us. This is the institution's Figshare research-data tenancy. It
is recorded here as a relationship only. The Figshare API v2 contract lives on the shared vendor host api.figshare.com/v2
that every Figshare customer calls, it belongs to Figshare, and it must never be saved under this institution — a single
copy of that contract was attributed to twenty-five universities across this cohort. This repository has never held it
and must not acquire it.
humanURL: https://waikato.figshare.com/
baseURL: https://waikato.figshare.com/
tags:
- Research Data
- Repository
- Figshare
- Tenants
tags_raw:
- Research Data
- Repository
- Figshare
- Tenant
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://docs.figshare.com/
- aid: university-of-waikato:libguides
name: Waikato Library Guides on Springshare LibGuides (tenant)
x-operator: tenant
description: libraryguides.waikato.ac.nz, which hosts the library's subject guides including its "Using Generative AI in
Academic Study" guide, CNAMEs to region-au.libguides.com — a tenancy on Springshare's LibGuides platform. Verified live
2026-09-01, HTTP 200. The guides and the editorial work are the institution's; the platform, its APIs and its contract
are Springshare's. Found by DNS resolution during this run; invisible to a host-based verdict because the hostname sits
under waikato.ac.nz.
humanURL: https://libraryguides.waikato.ac.nz/genaiguide
baseURL: https://libraryguides.waikato.ac.nz/
tags:
- Library
- LibGuides
- Springshare
- Tenants
- AI Policy
tags_raw:
- Library
- LibGuides
- Springshare
- Tenant
- AI Policy
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://libraryguides.waikato.ac.nz/genaiguide
- aid: university-of-waikato:university-of-waikato-authentication-api
name: University of Waikato Authentication API
description: Authorization Code and hybrid flows against the university identity provider.
humanURL: https://www.waikato.ac.nz/students/it-services/
baseURL: https://api.svc.waikato.ac.nz/uowidp/v1
tags:
- Authentication
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/university-of-waikato-authentication-api-openapi.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://api.svc.waikato.ac.nz/uowidp/v1/.well-known/openid-configuration
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/university-of-waikato-authentication.yml
- type: Scopes
url: scopes/university-of-waikato-scopes.yml
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/university-of-waikato-uowidp-provider-metadata.json
- type: Examples
url: examples/university-of-waikato-uowidp-discovery-example.json
- type: Errors
url: errors/university-of-waikato-errors.yml
- aid: university-of-waikato:university-of-waikato-discovery-api
name: University of Waikato Discovery API
description: OpenID Provider metadata and signing keys.
humanURL: https://www.waikato.ac.nz/students/it-services/
baseURL: https://api.svc.waikato.ac.nz/uowidp/v1
tags:
- Discovery
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/university-of-waikato-discovery-api-openapi.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://api.svc.waikato.ac.nz/uowidp/v1/.well-known/openid-configuration
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/university-of-waikato-authentication.yml
- type: Scopes
url: scopes/university-of-waikato-scopes.yml
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/university-of-waikato-uowidp-provider-metadata.json
- type: Examples
url: examples/university-of-waikato-uowidp-discovery-example.json
- type: Errors
url: errors/university-of-waikato-errors.yml
- aid: university-of-waikato:university-of-waikato-session-api
name: University of Waikato Session API
description: Front-channel session termination.
humanURL: https://www.waikato.ac.nz/students/it-services/
baseURL: https://api.svc.waikato.ac.nz/uowidp/v1
tags:
- Sessions
tags_raw:
- Session
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/university-of-waikato-session-api-openapi.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://api.svc.waikato.ac.nz/uowidp/v1/.well-known/openid-configuration
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/university-of-waikato-authentication.yml
- type: Scopes
url: scopes/university-of-waikato-scopes.yml
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/university-of-waikato-uowidp-provider-metadata.json
- type: Examples
url: examples/university-of-waikato-uowidp-discovery-example.json
- type: Errors
url: errors/university-of-waikato-errors.yml
common:
- type: Website
url: https://www.waikato.ac.nz/
- type: GitHubOrganization
url: https://github.com/Waikato
- type: GitHub
url: https://github.com/Waikato
- type: SourceCode
url: https://github.com/Waikato/waikato-repositories
- type: IssueTracker
url: https://github.com/Waikato/waikato-repositories/issues
- type: LinkedIn
url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/universityofwaikato/
- type: Twitter
url: https://twitter.com/waikato
- type: Support
url: https://www.waikato.ac.nz/students/it-services/
- type: Blog
url: https://www.waikato.ac.nz/news-events/news/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
url: https://www.waikato.ac.nz/privacy/
- type: TermsOfService
url: https://www.waikato.ac.nz/copyright-and-disclaimer/
- type: CourseCatalog
url: https://timetable.waikato.ac.nz/
- type: LibraryCatalog
url: https://waikato.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=64WAIKATO_INST:64WAIKATO
- type: ResearchRepository
url: https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/
- type: IdentityFederation
url: https://directory.tuakiri.ac.nz/metadata/tuakiri-metadata-signed.xml
- type: AIPolicy
url: https://www.waikato.ac.nz/students/student-assessment-handbook/gen-ai/
- type: AITooling
url: https://libraryguides.waikato.ac.nz/genaiguide
- type: LLMsTxt
url: https://www.waikato.ac.nz/llms.txt
- type: x-conformance
url: conformance/university-of-waikato-conformance.yml
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/university-of-waikato-authentication.yml
- type: Scopes
url: scopes/university-of-waikato-scopes.yml
- type: Errors
url: errors/university-of-waikato-errors.yml
- type: Vocabulary
url: vocabulary/university-of-waikato-vocabulary.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/university-of-waikato-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
url: plans/university-of-waikato-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
url: rate-limits/university-of-waikato-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
url: finops/university-of-waikato-finops.yml
- type: Review
url: review.yml
x-coverage:
state: covered
reason: covered
generated: '2026-09-01'
method: probed
detail: 'The University of Waikato operates no public developer programme, no developer portal and no self-serve public
API, and this profile says so. What it does operate was hunted across the eight classes a university genuinely runs and
found in five of them. Institution-operated and readable: an OpenID Connect provider with a live discovery document and
JWKS on the university''s own API gateway; a DSpace 7.6.5 REST API and OAI-PMH 2.0 interface on researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz;
a Moodle LTI 1.3 platform serving live platform keys; a documented One-Time Secret API from IT Services; the UFDL deep-learning
API from the CMS faculty; four active GitHub organisations; a Shibboleth SP metadata endpoint on the repository host;
and an llms.txt with explicit attribution and generative-model terms. Institution identity is federated twice — a Tuakiri/eduGAIN
Shibboleth IdP entity (hosted on REANNZ''s Tuakiri Hosted IdP) and a Microsoft Entra ID tenant. Registry memberships verified:
Crossref member 6347 / prefix 10.15663 and ROR 013fsnh78; DataCite returns zero matches and is recorded as a negative
probe. Four surfaces are tenancies on other people''s platforms and are recorded as relationships, never as Waikato contracts
— Symplectic Discovery behind profiles.waikato.ac.nz, Ex Libris Primo VE, Springshare LibGuides behind libraryguides.waikato.ac.nz,
and waikato.figshare.com. Two of those (Symplectic, LibGuides) were invisible to the host-based audit because they sit
on waikato.ac.nz subdomains and were found by DNS resolution in this run. Absences confirmed by probe: no data./opendata./api./
developer./apis.waikato.ac.nz (NXDOMAIN), no /.well-known/security.txt (404), no status page, no research-computing or
HPC allocation surface, no course/timetable API behind the ITS-built Blazor client (every guessed gateway route returns
the gateway''s own 404 envelope), no ORCID endpoints on the DSpace deployment. This profile is thin in artifact volume
because the institution genuinely publishes one contract of its own, not because we were blocked — the single API-gateway
path that is publicly routed is the one that is documented here.'
evidence:
- url: https://api.svc.waikato.ac.nz/uowidp/v1/.well-known/openid-configuration
status: 200
- url: https://api.svc.waikato.ac.nz/uowidp/v1/oidc/keys
status: 200
- url: https://api.svc.waikato.ac.nz/uowidp/v1/logout
status: 302
- url: https://api.svc.waikato.ac.nz/uowidp/v1/auth
status: 401
- url: https://api.svc.waikato.ac.nz/
status: 404
- url: https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/server/api
status: 200
- url: https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
status: 200
- url: https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/server/oai/request?verb=ListMetadataFormats
status: 200
- url: https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/Shibboleth.sso/Metadata
status: 200
- url: https://elearn.waikato.ac.nz/mod/lti/certs.php
status: 200
- url: https://elearn.waikato.ac.nz/mod/lti/token.php
status: 400
- url: https://elearn.waikato.ac.nz/webservice/rest/server.php
status: 200
- url: https://otis.its.waikato.ac.nz/docs/api
status: 200
- url: https://ufdl.cms.waikato.ac.nz/ufdl-api/
status: 200
- url: https://timetable.waikato.ac.nz/appsettings.json
status: 200
- url: https://www.waikato.ac.nz/llms.txt
status: 200
- url: https://directory.tuakiri.ac.nz/metadata/tuakiri-metadata-signed.xml
status: 200
- url: https://mds.edugain.org/edugain-v2.xml
status: 200
- url: https://login.microsoftonline.com/220f5dc3-9452-48e5-9b4f-888df42f7a2d/federationmetadata/2007-06/federationmetadata.xml
status: 200
- url: https://api.crossref.org/members?query=waikato
status: 200
- url: https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations?query=University+of+Waikato
status: 200
- url: https://api.datacite.org/repositories?query=Waikato
status: 200
- url: https://profiles.waikato.ac.nz/
status: 200
- url: https://waikato.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/
status: 200
- url: https://libraryguides.waikato.ac.nz/genaiguide
status: 200
- url: https://waikato.figshare.com/
status: 202
- url: https://www.waikato.ac.nz/.well-known/security.txt
status: 404
- url: https://api.svc.waikato.ac.nz/swagger
status: 404
- url: https://data.waikato.ac.nz/
status: 0
- url: https://developer.waikato.ac.nz/
status: 0
- url: https://api.waikato.ac.nz/
status: 0
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-tags-removed:
- OpenID Connect
University of Waikato API — frequently asked questions
Does University of Waikato have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 16 APIs from University of Waikato, including Research Commons OAI-PMH, Research Commons DSpace REST API and eLearn LTI 1.3 Platform (Moodle), and 13 more.
Is there an OpenAPI specification for the University of Waikato API?
Yes. APIs.io indexes 3 OpenAPI specifications for University of Waikato, each linked for download from this page.
How do I authenticate with the University of Waikato API?
University of Waikato documents its authentication (openIdConnect/http/saml2 · 6 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as University Of Waikato Authentication.
How much does the University of Waikato API cost?
APIs.io lists 2 pricing plans for University of Waikato, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.
Is the University of Waikato API ready for AI agents?
University of Waikato has a Kin Score of 27.9 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 30.9 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.
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