The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) is a public research university in Sydney, Australia, and a member of the Group of Eight. Like almost every institution, UNSW is a federation of buyers rather than an API producer, and its programmable footprint has to be read that way. The one substantial platform UNSW runs itself — the Enterprise API Gateway and Developer Portal on Microsoft Azure API Management at apideveloper.unsw.edu.au — is completely gated: onboarding is request-based, the API catalogue is invisible before sign-in, no base URL is disclosed, and the portal states outright that consumers cannot exercise APIs in the portal. The surfaces a member of the public can actually read are three, and all three are institution- operated: the UNSWorks institutional repository REST API (DSpace 7.0, anonymous discovery search, authenticated item browse), its OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint exposing twelve metadata formats back to 2007, and the UNSW Shibboleth identity provider whose SAML 2.0 entity metadata is published under the institution's own domain and registered in the Australian Access Federation. Everything else is a tenancy on someone else's platform — an Ex Libris Primo library discovery view, a vendor-hosted Moodle that is a conformant LTI 1.3 platform, a Microsoft Power Apps research-data toolkit — or student-society work on non-institution domains. UNSW publishes no OpenAPI, no open data portal, no status page, no changelog and no API governance ruleset.
University of New South Wales publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network: UNSWorks Repository REST API (DSpace 7.0) and UNSWorks Repository OAI-PMH. Tagged areas include University, Higher Education, Education, Research, and Australia.
The University of New South Wales catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
University of New South Wales’ developer surface includes documentation, support, engineering blog, code examples, authentication, and 28 more developer resources.
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the
Education & Research regime, so
Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite.
If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your
provider repo — the
applicability map is public and we will correct it.
The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them,
because the conditional facet above carries the other
15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped
maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal
weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.
UNSWorks is the UNSW open-access institutional repository, running DSpace 7.0 on UNSW infrastructure and administered by the UNSW Library. The HAL/REST server at /server/api is ...
OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for UNSWorks. Fully anonymous. All six verbs were exercised live and answer with a well-formed envelope; twelve metadata formats are off...
UNSW's own SAML 2.0 identity provider — a Shibboleth IdP whose entity metadata is published as a machine-readable XML document at the entityID URL and is carried in the AAF fede...
The front door to UNSW's Enterprise API Gateway, built on Microsoft Azure API Management. Cataloguing it is a statement about the gate, not about the APIs behind it: /apis retur...
UNSW's learning management system, operated for UNSW by Open LMS. It is a live, conformant 1EdTech LTI 1.3 platform: the public keyset at /mod/lti/certs.php serves RS256 JWKs, t...
UNSW Library's discovery layer runs on Ex Libris Primo VE. This entry records the tenancy so the relationship is visible in the catalogue; no Ex Libris specification is saved un...
A live student-society API exposing UNSW campus buildings and teaching rooms with coordinates, capacity, school and usage type — the campus-life surface class, built by students...
A scraper and public API for UNSW's timetable site, produced by the UNSW Software Development Society. ARCHIVED BY ITS OWNER ON 2026-04-05 and now read-only. The June 2026 profi...
A public API for fetching degree, specialisation and course information from the UNSW Handbook, published by the UNSW Computer Science and Engineering Society. ARCHIVED BY ITS O...
aid: unsw-sydney
name: University of New South Wales
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
description: 'The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) is a public research university in Sydney, Australia, and a
member of the Group of Eight. Like almost every institution, UNSW is a federation of buyers rather than an API producer,
and its programmable footprint has to be read that way. The one substantial platform UNSW runs itself — the Enterprise API
Gateway and Developer Portal on Microsoft Azure API Management at apideveloper.unsw.edu.au — is completely gated: onboarding
is request-based, the API catalogue is invisible before sign-in, no base URL is disclosed, and the portal states outright
that consumers cannot exercise APIs in the portal. The surfaces a member of the public can actually read are three, and
all three are institution- operated: the UNSWorks institutional repository REST API (DSpace 7.0, anonymous discovery search,
authenticated item browse), its OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint exposing twelve metadata formats back to 2007, and the UNSW
Shibboleth identity provider whose SAML 2.0 entity metadata is published under the institution''s own domain and registered
in the Australian Access Federation. Everything else is a tenancy on someone else''s platform — an Ex Libris Primo library
discovery view, a vendor-hosted Moodle that is a conformant LTI 1.3 platform, a Microsoft Power Apps research-data toolkit
— or student-society work on non-institution domains. UNSW publishes no OpenAPI, no open data portal, no status page, no
changelog and no API governance ruleset.'
type: Index
accessModel:
pricing: free
onboarding: request-based
trial: false
try_now: false
public: false
label: Free
confidence: high
source:
- plans
- probed
generated: '2026-08-19'
method: probed
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:
- University
- Higher Education
- Education
- Research
- Australia
- Group of Eight
- Sydney
- Research Repository
- Identity Federation
- Course Catalog
- Library
- Open Repository
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: unsw-sydney:unsworks-rest
name: UNSWorks Repository REST API (DSpace 7.0)
x-operator: institution
x-operator-evidence: unsworks.unsw.edu.au is under the institution's own registrable domain and resolves to a UNSW-controlled
A record (54.253.215.118), not a vendor CNAME. The repository's own OAI-PMH Identify response names it "UNSWorks Repository"
with adminEmail lib.repository.alerts@unsw.edu.au. DSpace is open-source software; the deployment is UNSW's.
description: UNSWorks is the UNSW open-access institutional repository, running DSpace 7.0 on UNSW infrastructure and administered
by the UNSW Library. The HAL/REST server at /server/api is readable without credentials for the service document, communities,
collections, the metadata registry, entity types and discovery search; unbounded item and bitstream browse return 401.
Objects are identified by CNRI handles under the UNSW-registered prefix 1959.4. No OpenAPI is published by UNSW — the
specification in this repository was derived from live probes.
humanURL: https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/
baseURL: https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/server/api
tags:
- Research Repository
- DSpace
- REST
- Metadata
- Open Access
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/unsw-sydney-unsworks-dspace-openapi.yml
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/unsw-sydney-unsworks-dspace-schema.json
- type: Examples
url: examples/unsw-sydney-unsworks-dspace-example.json
- type: Vocabulary
url: vocabulary/unsw-sydney-unsworks-vocabulary.yml
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/unsw-sydney-authentication.yml
- type: Errors
url: errors/unsw-sydney-errors.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/server/api
- aid: unsw-sydney:unsworks-oai
name: UNSWorks Repository OAI-PMH
x-operator: institution
x-operator-evidence: The endpoint's own Identify response declares baseURL https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/oai/request and
repositoryIdentifier unsworks.library.unsw.edu.au, under the institution's registrable domain, with a unsw.edu.au administrative
contact.
description: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for UNSWorks. Fully anonymous. All six verbs were exercised live and
answer with a well-formed envelope; twelve metadata formats are offered (oai_dc, qdc, uketd_dc, didl, mods, ore, mets,
rdf, marc, xoai, dim, etdms) and sets are keyed on the UNSW handle prefix. Earliest record datestamp is 2007-11-06. This
is the institution's strongest domain-standard conformance under the Kin Score education regime.
humanURL: https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/
baseURL: https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/oai/request
tags:
- Research Repository
- OAI-PMH
- Harvesting
- Metadata
- Open Access
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/unsw-sydney-unsworks-oai-pmh-openapi.yml
- type: Examples
url: examples/unsw-sydney-unsworks-oai-identify-example.xml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/unsw-sydney-education-standards-conformance.yml
- type: Errors
url: errors/unsw-sydney-errors.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/oai/request?verb=Identify
- aid: unsw-sydney:shibboleth-idp
name: UNSW Shibboleth Identity Provider (AAF / eduGAIN)
x-operator: institution
x-operator-evidence: entityID https://aaf.unsw.edu.au/idp/shibboleth, served from the institution's own domain and registered
in the Australian Access Federation aggregate with OrganizationName "The University of New South Wales" and mdui:DisplayName
"The University of New South Wales (UNSW)". The asserted shibmd:Scope is unsw.edu.au.
description: UNSW's own SAML 2.0 identity provider — a Shibboleth IdP whose entity metadata is published as a machine-readable
XML document at the entityID URL and is carried in the AAF federation aggregate, which participates in eduGAIN. SingleSignOnService
endpoints are exposed over HTTP-POST and HTTP-Redirect bindings. This is institution-operated by definition and is the
class of surface a university runs itself even when every application on top is a vendor's. A second UNSW-operated entity,
the AC Lab System service provider at sp.acls.analytical.unsw.edu.au, is registered in the same federation with OrganizationName
unsw.edu.au.
humanURL: https://aaf.edu.au/
baseURL: https://aaf.unsw.edu.au/idp/shibboleth
tags:
- Identity Federation
- Shibboleth
- SAML
- Single Sign-On
- eduGAIN
properties:
- type: Examples
url: examples/unsw-sydney-shibboleth-idp-metadata-example.xml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/unsw-sydney-education-standards-conformance.yml
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/unsw-sydney-authentication.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://md.aaf.edu.au/aaf-metadata.xml
- aid: unsw-sydney:developer-portal
name: UNSW Enterprise Developer Portal
x-operator: institution
x-operator-evidence: apideveloper.unsw.edu.au is under the institution's own registrable domain and is branded with UNSW's
own logo. The underlying product is Microsoft Azure API Management, but the gateway, the catalogue and the onboarding
process are UNSW's.
description: 'The front door to UNSW''s Enterprise API Gateway, built on Microsoft Azure API Management. Cataloguing it
is a statement about the gate, not about the APIs behind it: /apis returns 404, there is no self-service signup, no base
URL is published, and the portal''s own text states that consumers "will not be able to try out the APIs in the Developer
Portal, due to security constraints of the organisation." Provider and consumer onboarding both run through request forms,
an internal cyber review and manually issued credentials. Nothing about the number, shape or lifecycle of the APIs behind
the gate is publicly knowable, and this profile makes no claim about them.'
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
- type: Support
url: https://apideveloper.unsw.edu.au/contact-us
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/unsw-sydney-authentication.yml
- aid: unsw-sydney:moodle-lti
name: Moodle @ UNSW (TELT) — LTI 1.3 platform
x-operator: tenant
x-operator-evidence: Hostname moodle.telt.unsw.edu.au is under unsw.edu.au, but the matching service-provider entity in
the AAF federation metadata declares OrganizationName ltgplc.com / "Learning Technologies Group Pty Ltd" (Open LMS) as
the operating organisation, and a staging twin exists at unsw-mdl-stage.enter.openlms.cloud. Vendor platform, institution-specific
hostname.
description: 'UNSW''s learning management system, operated for UNSW by Open LMS. It is a live, conformant 1EdTech LTI 1.3
platform: the public keyset at /mod/lti/certs.php serves RS256 JWKs, the authorisation endpoint at /mod/lti/auth.php answers,
and the token endpoint at /mod/lti/token.php is present and rejects an empty grant. A Moodle web-service endpoint exists
but issues tokens only internally. Recorded as a tenant relationship: the LTI conformance is real and belongs on UNSW''s
profile, the contract belongs to Moodle.'
humanURL: https://moodle.telt.unsw.edu.au/
baseURL: https://moodle.telt.unsw.edu.au/mod/lti
tags:
- Learning Management
- LTI
- Moodle
- Tenant
- Teaching
properties:
- type: Examples
url: examples/unsw-sydney-moodle-lti-jwks-example.json
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/unsw-sydney-education-standards-conformance.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://moodle.telt.unsw.edu.au/mod/lti/certs.php
- aid: unsw-sydney:primo-discovery
name: UNSW Library discovery (Ex Libris Primo VE)
x-operator: tenant
x-operator-evidence: Hosted on the shared vendor host unsw.primo.exlibrisgroup.com under an institution-specific view identifier,
vid=61UNSW_INST:UNSWS. The data is UNSW's; the platform, the host and the contract are Ex Libris's.
description: UNSW Library's discovery layer runs on Ex Libris Primo VE. This entry records the tenancy so the relationship
is visible in the catalogue; no Ex Libris specification is saved under this institution's slug. Any Primo or Alma API
contract belongs on Ex Libris's own profile, and crediting UNSW for it would be exactly the misattribution this pipeline
exists to prevent.
humanURL: https://www.library.unsw.edu.au/
baseURL: https://unsw.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=61UNSW_INST:UNSWS
tags:
- Library
- Discovery
- Ex Libris
- Primo
- Tenant
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.library.unsw.edu.au/
- aid: unsw-sydney:freerooms
name: Freerooms API (DevSoc, community)
x-operator: tenant
x-operator-evidence: Operated by the UNSW Software Development Society on the non-institution domain devsoc.app. Built on
UNSW timetable and room data; not operated, endorsed or supported by UNSW.
description: 'A live student-society API exposing UNSW campus buildings and teaching rooms with coordinates, capacity, school
and usage type — the campus-life surface class, built by students rather than by the institution. Confirmed live: /api/buildings
and /api/rooms both return JSON without credentials. This is the working successor to the archived timetable-scraper,
and it is credited as a tenant relationship, never as a UNSW-operated API.'
humanURL: https://freerooms.devsoc.app/
baseURL: https://freerooms.devsoc.app/api
tags:
- Campus Life
- Room Booking
- Timetable
- Community
- Unofficial
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://freerooms.devsoc.app/
- type: GitHub
url: https://github.com/devsoc-unsw
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/unsw-sydney-lifecycle.yml
- aid: unsw-sydney:timetable-scraper
name: UNSW Timetable API (DevSoc, community) — ARCHIVED
x-operator: tenant
x-operator-evidence: UNSW Software Development Society project on github.com; the institution neither operates nor endorses
it.
description: A scraper and public API for UNSW's timetable site, produced by the UNSW Software Development Society. ARCHIVED
BY ITS OWNER ON 2026-04-05 and now read-only. The June 2026 profile of this institution listed it as a live surface; that
is corrected here. Retained as a lifecycle record, not as a current surface.
humanURL: https://github.com/devsoc-unsw/timetable-scraper
tags:
- Timetable
- Course Catalog
- Community
- Unofficial
- Archived
properties:
- type: GitHub
url: https://github.com/devsoc-unsw/timetable-scraper
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/unsw-sydney-lifecycle.yml
- aid: unsw-sydney:handbook-api
name: UNSW Handbook API (CSESoc, community) — ARCHIVED
x-operator: tenant
x-operator-evidence: UNSW Computer Science and Engineering Society project on github.com; the institution neither operates
nor endorses it.
description: A public API for fetching degree, specialisation and course information from the UNSW Handbook, published by
the UNSW Computer Science and Engineering Society. ARCHIVED BY ITS OWNER ON 2026-04-03 and now read-only. The June 2026
profile listed it as live; that is corrected here. Retained as a lifecycle record, not as a current surface.
humanURL: https://github.com/csesoc/handbook-api
tags:
- Handbook
- Course Catalog
- Community
- Unofficial
- Archived
properties:
- type: GitHub
url: https://github.com/csesoc/handbook-api
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/unsw-sydney-lifecycle.yml
common:
- type: Website
url: https://www.unsw.edu.au/
- type: Documentation
url: https://apideveloper.unsw.edu.au/getting-started
- type: DeveloperPortal
url: https://apideveloper.unsw.edu.au/
- type: ResearchRepository
url: https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/
- type: IdentityFederation
url: https://aaf.unsw.edu.au/idp/shibboleth
- type: ResearchComputing
url: https://docs.restech.unsw.edu.au/
- type: LibraryCatalog
url: https://www.library.unsw.edu.au/
- type: CourseCatalog
url: https://www.handbook.unsw.edu.au/
- type: AIPolicy
url: https://www.teaching.unsw.edu.au/ai/guidelines
- type: AITooling
url: https://www.unsw.edu.au/myit/emerging-technologies/ai
- type: GitHubOrganization
url: https://github.com/unsw-edu-au
- type: PrivacyPolicy
url: https://www.unsw.edu.au/privacy
- type: TermsOfService
url: https://www.unsw.edu.au/copyright-disclaimer
- type: Support
url: https://www.unsw.edu.au/myit
- type: Blog
url: https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom
- type: LinkedIn
url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/unsw/
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/unsw-sydney-unsworks-dspace-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/unsw-sydney-unsworks-oai-pmh-openapi.yml
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/unsw-sydney-unsworks-dspace-schema.json
- type: Examples
url: examples/unsw-sydney-unsworks-dspace-example.json
- type: Vocabulary
url: vocabulary/unsw-sydney-unsworks-vocabulary.yml
- type: Rules
url: rules/unsw-sydney-rules.yml
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/unsw-sydney-authentication.yml
- type: Scopes
url: scopes/unsw-sydney-scopes.yml
- type: Errors
url: errors/unsw-sydney-errors.yml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/unsw-sydney-education-standards-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/unsw-sydney-lifecycle.yml
- type: JSONLD
url: json-ld/unsw-sydney-context.jsonld
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/unsw-sydney-domain-security.yml
- 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
x-coverage:
state: gated
reason: gated_developer_portal
generated: '2026-08-19'
method: probed
detail: 'UNSW''s one substantial institution-operated API platform — the Enterprise API Gateway behind apideveloper.unsw.edu.au
— cannot be read without authorisation, and authorisation is granted only through a manual request process that can require
a data sharing agreement or a manager''s approval. The catalogue path returns 404 unauthenticated, no gateway base URL
is published anywhere on the portal, and the portal itself states that even authorised consumers cannot exercise APIs
from within it. So the count, shape, versioning and lifecycle of UNSW''s enterprise APIs are unknowable from outside,
and this profile asserts nothing about them. What could be read was read completely: the UNSWorks DSpace REST API, its
OAI-PMH endpoint and the UNSW Shibboleth IdP metadata were all probed live and are fully covered. Nothing here was blocked
by bot protection, and the thinness of this profile is a fact about UNSW''s publishing posture, not a gap in the sweep.
UNSW operates no open data portal (data.unsw.edu.au redirects to an information-governance page), publishes no OpenAPI,
no status page, no changelog and no security.txt, and its research-data toolkit sits behind a Microsoft tenant login.'
evidence:
- url: https://apideveloper.unsw.edu.au/
status: 200
- url: https://apideveloper.unsw.edu.au/getting-started
status: 200
- url: https://apideveloper.unsw.edu.au/apis
status: 404
- url: https://apideveloper.unsw.edu.au/signin
status: 200
- url: https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/server/api
status: 200
- url: https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/server/api/discover/search/objects?size=1
status: 200
- url: https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/server/api/core/items?size=1
status: 401
- url: https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/oai/request?verb=Identify
status: 200
- url: https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/oai/request?verb=ListMetadataFormats
status: 200
- url: https://aaf.unsw.edu.au/idp/shibboleth
status: 200
- url: https://md.aaf.edu.au/aaf-metadata.xml
status: 200
- url: https://moodle.telt.unsw.edu.au/mod/lti/certs.php
status: 200
- url: https://freerooms.devsoc.app/api/buildings
status: 200
- url: https://api.unsw.edu.au/
status: 502
- url: https://data.unsw.edu.au/
status: 200
note: Redirects to https://www.unsw.edu.au/information-governance — not an open data portal.
- url: https://www.unsw.edu.au/llms.txt
status: 404
- url: https://www.unsw.edu.au/.well-known/security.txt
status: 404
- url: https://resdata.unsw.edu.au/
status: 0
note: NXDOMAIN — retired 2021.
maintainers:
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email: kin@apievangelist.com
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