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University of New South Wales

The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) is a public research university in Sydney, Australia, ranked #35 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. UNSW operates a gated Enterprise Developer Portal built on Microsoft Azure API Management at apideveloper.unsw.edu.au, exposing internal enterprise APIs for student-data and campus-services integration to authorised developers via a request-based onboarding process. Publicly accessible programmatic surfaces include the UNSWorks institutional repository (DSpace 7.0) with a REST API and an OAI-PMH endpoint. Community-maintained APIs for the UNSW timetable and handbook are published by UNSW student societies (DevSoc and CSESoc) on GitHub.

University of New South Wales publishes 5 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Research, and Open Repository.

The University of New South Wales catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

University of New South Wales’ developer surface includes GitHub presence and 8 more developer resources.

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20.6/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
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5 APIs
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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 20.6/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 3.2 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 1.7 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.5 / 10
Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 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.

UNSW Enterprise Developer Portal

The front-facing developer portal exposing the UNSW Enterprise API gateway, built on Microsoft Azure API Management. It provides API documentation, an interactive API explorer, ...

UNSWorks Repository REST API (DSpace)

UNSWorks is the UNSW institutional research repository running DSpace 7.0. It exposes a public DSpace REST/HAL API at /server/api for programmatic discovery and retrieval of com...

UNSWorks Repository OAI-PMH

OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for the UNSWorks Repository, enabling bulk harvesting of research-output and thesis metadata. The Identify verb confirms repository name...

UNSW Timetable API (community)

A community-maintained scraper and public API for UNSW's timetable site (timetable.unsw.edu.au), produced by the UNSW Software Development Society (DevSoc). It powers student pr...

UNSW Handbook API (community)

A community-maintained public API for fetching degree, specialisation, and course information from the UNSW Handbook, published by the UNSW Computer Science and Engineering Soci...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Unsw Sydney Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Unsw Sydney Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Unsw Sydney Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Unsw Sydney Context

19 classes · 5 properties

JSON-LD

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Unsw Sydney Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal
DeveloperPortal

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub
GitHub

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

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
LinkedIn

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review
Review

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: unsw-sydney
name: University of New South Wales
description: 'The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) is a public research university in Sydney, Australia, ranked
  #35 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. UNSW operates a gated Enterprise Developer Portal built on Microsoft Azure
  API Management at apideveloper.unsw.edu.au, exposing internal enterprise APIs for student-data and campus-services integration
  to authorised developers via a request-based onboarding process. Publicly accessible programmatic surfaces include the UNSWorks
  institutional repository (DSpace 7.0) with a REST API and an OAI-PMH endpoint. Community-maintained APIs for the UNSW timetable
  and handbook are published by UNSW student societies (DevSoc and CSESoc) on GitHub.'
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/unsw-sydney.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/unsw-sydney/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Open Repository
- Australia
- Sydney
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: unsw-sydney:developer-portal
  name: UNSW Enterprise Developer Portal
  description: 'The front-facing developer portal exposing the UNSW Enterprise API gateway, built on Microsoft Azure API Management.
    It provides API documentation, an interactive API explorer, and subscription management for a growing range of enterprise
    APIs supporting student-data management and campus-services integration. Access is gated: developers must request authorisation
    via a registration form rather than self-service sign-up.'
  humanURL: https://apideveloper.unsw.edu.au/
  tags:
  - Developer Portal
  - Azure API Management
  - Enterprise
  - Gated
  - Integration
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://apideveloper.unsw.edu.au/getting-started
  - type: Signup
    url: https://apideveloper.unsw.edu.au/signin
- aid: unsw-sydney:unsworks-rest
  name: UNSWorks Repository REST API (DSpace)
  description: UNSWorks is the UNSW institutional research repository running DSpace 7.0. It exposes a public DSpace REST/HAL
    API at /server/api for programmatic discovery and retrieval of communities, collections, and item metadata for research
    outputs and theses.
  humanURL: https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/
  baseURL: https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/server/api
  tags:
  - Repository
  - DSpace
  - REST
  - Research
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/server/api
- aid: unsw-sydney:unsworks-oai
  name: UNSWorks Repository OAI-PMH
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for the UNSWorks Repository, enabling bulk harvesting of research-output
    and thesis metadata. The Identify verb confirms repository name "UNSWorks Repository" with records dating from 2007.
  humanURL: https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/
  baseURL: https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/oai/request
  tags:
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Harvesting
  - Research
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/oai/request?verb=Identify
- aid: unsw-sydney:timetable-scraper
  name: UNSW Timetable API (community)
  description: A community-maintained scraper and public API for UNSW's timetable site (timetable.unsw.edu.au), produced by
    the UNSW Software Development Society (DevSoc). It powers student projects such as Notangles and Freerooms. This is not
    an official UNSW-operated API.
  humanURL: https://github.com/devsoc-unsw/timetable-scraper
  tags:
  - Timetable
  - Courses
  - Community
  - Unofficial
  - Scraper
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/devsoc-unsw/timetable-scraper
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/devsoc-unsw/timetable-scraper
- aid: unsw-sydney:handbook-api
  name: UNSW Handbook API (community)
  description: A community-maintained public API for fetching degree, specialisation, and course information from the UNSW
    Handbook, published by the UNSW Computer Science and Engineering Society (CSESoc). This is not an official UNSW-operated
    API.
  humanURL: https://github.com/csesoc/handbook-api
  tags:
  - Handbook
  - Courses
  - Catalog
  - Community
  - Unofficial
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/csesoc/handbook-api
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/csesoc/handbook-api
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/unsw-sydney-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.unsw.edu.au/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://apideveloper.unsw.edu.au/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/unsw/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/devsoc-unsw
- type: Plans
  url: plans/unsw-sydney-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/unsw-sydney-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/unsw-sydney-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com