University of Warsaw

aid: university-of-warsaw
name: University of Warsaw
description: 'The University of Warsaw (Uniwersytet Warszawski) is Poland''s largest and highest-ranked university, placed
  #258 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer footprint centers on the USOS API, a documented OAuth-secured
  REST-like protocol exposing the institution''s academic database (courses, grades, exams, users, payments and more), and
  on the Dane Badawcze UW research data repository, a Dataverse instance that offers a native REST API and an OAI-PMH endpoint
  for metadata harvesting. Developer access to USOS requires registration for an API key (Consumer Key/Secret) via the USOS
  developers portal.'
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-warsaw/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Poland
- Academic Data
- Research Data
- Open Data
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: university-of-warsaw:usos-api
  name: USOS API (University of Warsaw)
  description: The University of Warsaw installation of the USOS API, a REST-like protocol providing access to the university's
    academic database. It exposes 60+ documented services covering courses, grades, exams, user information, payments, housing
    and events, with both anonymous access to a subset of methods and OAuth-authorized access to user data. Developers must
    sign up for an API key (Consumer Key/Secret) and use the OAuth flow to obtain access tokens.
  humanURL: https://usosapps.uw.edu.pl/developers/api/
  baseURL: https://usosapps.uw.edu.pl/services/
  tags:
  - Academic Data
  - Courses
  - Students
  - OAuth
  - Education
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://usosapps.uw.edu.pl/developers/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://usosapps.uw.edu.pl/developers/api/authorization/
  - type: Signup
    url: https://usosapps.uw.edu.pl/developers/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-warsaw-usos-api.yaml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-warsaw-course-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-warsaw-faculty-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-warsaw-installation-schema.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/university-of-warsaw-course-structure.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/university-of-warsaw-installation-structure.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/university-of-warsaw-installation-example.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/university-of-warsaw-now-example.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/university-of-warsaw-course-error-example.json
  - type: x-spectral-rules
    url: rules/university-of-warsaw-rules.yml
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-warsaw-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-json-ld-context
    url: json-ld/university-of-warsaw-context.jsonld
- aid: university-of-warsaw:rdr-rest
  name: Dane Badawcze UW Research Data Repository REST API
  description: The University of Warsaw Research Data Repository (Dane Badawcze UW) is a Dataverse-based institutional repository
    for long-term storage and open sharing of research data across all disciplines, with DOI assignment, versioning and Central
    Authentication System integration. As a Dataverse instance it exposes the native Dataverse REST API for search, dataset
    and file operations.
  humanURL: https://danebadawcze.uw.edu.pl/
  baseURL: https://danebadawcze.uw.edu.pl/api/
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - Repository
  - Dataverse
  - REST
  - Open Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://info.danebadawcze.uw.edu.pl/en/about-the-service/
- aid: university-of-warsaw:rdr-oai-pmh
  name: Dane Badawcze UW OAI-PMH Endpoint
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for the University of Warsaw Research Data Repository (Dataverse).
    The repository identifies itself as the "Dane Badawcze UW Dataverse OAI Archive" and supports standard verbs such as Identify,
    ListRecords and GetRecord for harvesting research dataset metadata.
  humanURL: https://danebadawcze.uw.edu.pl/
  baseURL: https://danebadawcze.uw.edu.pl/oai
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata
  - Harvesting
  - Open Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://info.danebadawcze.uw.edu.pl/en/about-the-service/
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://en.uw.edu.pl/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/icm-uw
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/uniwersytet-warszawski
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://usosapps.uw.edu.pl/developers/
- type: Authentication
  url: https://usosapps.uw.edu.pl/developers/api/authorization/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-warsaw-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-warsaw-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-warsaw-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com