University of Washington

aid: university-of-washington
name: University of Washington
description: 'The University of Washington (UW) is a public research university based in Seattle, Washington, United States,
  ranked #52 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. UW operates a mature, institutionally documented developer footprint
  through its UW-IT Enterprise Web Services (EWS) program, which exposes a registry of REST/SOAP web services for student,
  identity, person, group, and ID-card data, each with public Swagger/OpenAPI documentation. Most production data endpoints
  require an institutional UW NetID, certificate-based authentication, and approved access; the documentation, service registry,
  and Swagger specifications are publicly browsable. UW also publishes open scholarly metadata through its ResearchWorks DSpace
  repository (REST API and OAI-PMH) and maintains active public GitHub organizations.'
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-washington/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- United States
- Student Information
- Identity
- Library
- Open Data
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: university-of-washington:student-web-service
  name: Student Web Service (SWS)
  description: The Student Web Service gives applications access to information in the UW Student database such as course
    data, registration data, section data, person data, and term data. It exposes a set of public and private APIs; production
    access requires approval and authentication, while the Swagger/OpenAPI documentation is public. Owned by the Office of
    the Registrar.
  humanURL: https://webservices.washington.edu/sws/
  baseURL: https://ws.admin.washington.edu/student
  tags:
  - Students
  - Courses
  - Registration
  - Enterprise Web Services
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://webservices.washington.edu/sws/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://ws.admin.washington.edu/student/swagger/index.html
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-washington-student-web-service.yaml
- aid: university-of-washington:idcard-web-service
  name: IdCard Web Service
  description: The IdCard Web Service gives applications access to information associated with the Husky ID Card, such as
    cardholder photos. Production access is gated and authenticated; the Swagger/OpenAPI documentation is publicly viewable.
  humanURL: https://webservices.washington.edu/idcardws/index.html
  baseURL: https://ws.admin.washington.edu/idcard
  tags:
  - Identity
  - ID Card
  - Photos
  - Enterprise Web Services
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://webservices.washington.edu/idcardws/index.html
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://ws.admin.washington.edu/idcard/swagger/index.html
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-washington-idcard-web-service.yaml
- aid: university-of-washington:identity-registry-web-service
  name: Identity Registration Web Service (IRWS)
  description: The Identity Registration Web Service is the UW-IT Identity Registry REST API (V1 and V2) providing access
    to identity and person registry data. Access is authenticated and approval-gated; the API specification is publicly documented.
  humanURL: https://iam-tools.u.washington.edu/apis/irwsv2/
  tags:
  - Identity
  - IAM
  - Person
  - Enterprise Web Services
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://iam-tools.u.washington.edu/apis/irwsv2/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://iam-tools.u.washington.edu/apis/irwsv1/
- aid: university-of-washington:enterprise-web-services
  name: UW-IT Enterprise Web Services Registry
  description: Enterprise Web Services (EWS) is UW-IT's secure collection of REST/SOAP web services that let enterprise business
    applications access commonly shared source data in a scalable, real-time, highly available architecture. The public registry
    catalogs services including Student, Person, Groups, HRP, IdCard, Financial, and Space web services, each with its own
    documentation and Swagger specification.
  humanURL: https://webservices.washington.edu/
  tags:
  - Enterprise Web Services
  - Registry
  - Integration
  - Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://webservices.washington.edu/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://it.uw.edu/summary/enterprise-web-services/
- aid: university-of-washington:researchworks-dspace
  name: ResearchWorks Repository (DSpace REST + OAI-PMH)
  description: ResearchWorks is UW's institutional digital repository for disseminating text-based scholarly work produced
    by the UW community, running on DSpace. It exposes a public DSpace REST API and an OAI-PMH endpoint for open metadata
    harvesting of repository content.
  humanURL: https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/
  baseURL: https://digital.lib.washington.edu/server/api
  tags:
  - Library
  - Institutional Repository
  - DSpace
  - OAI-PMH
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/
  - type: OAI-PMH
    url: https://digital.lib.washington.edu/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.washington.edu/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://webservices.washington.edu/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/uw-it-aca
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/uwwebservices
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-washington/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-washington-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-washington-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-washington-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com