# University of New South Wales **Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/unsw-sydney/ **Website:** https://www.unsw.edu.au/ **APIs profiled:** 9 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. ## Kin Score — 50.8 / 100 (developing) Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: rising (+31.5 from 19.3). | Facet | Score | |---|---| | Discoverability | 64.8 | | Contract Quality | 63.6 | | Governance | 15.2 | | Contract Governance | 15.2 | | Operational Transparency | 26.3 | | Developer Ergonomics | 38.1 | | Commercial Clarity | 50.0 | | Access Clarity | 50.0 | Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 64.8 (matched via tags). ## Agent readiness — 39.7 (agent-ready) | Dimension | Value | |---|---| | Spec Presence | yes | | Agentic Access | no | | Reversibility Documented | no | | MCP Server | no | | Auth Clarity | yes | | Idempotency | no | | Error Semantics | verified | | OpenAPI Examples | verified | | Rate Limit Signal | documented | | Event Surface Described | no | | Agent Skills | no | | Well Known Catalog | no | | Consent Identity | no | | Agent Card | no | | Dry Run Mode | no | ## Access Free — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high). ## APIs (9) - **UNSWorks Repository REST API (DSpace 7.0)** — 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 ... - **UNSWorks Repository OAI-PMH** — 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 Shibboleth Identity Provider (AAF / eduGAIN)** — 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... - **UNSW Enterprise Developer Portal** — 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... - **Moodle @ UNSW (TELT) — LTI 1.3 platform** — 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 discovery (Ex Libris Primo VE)** — 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... - **Freerooms API (DevSoc, community)** — 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... - **UNSW Timetable API (DevSoc, community) — ARCHIVED** — 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... - **UNSW Handbook API (CSESoc, community) — ARCHIVED** — 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... ## Security (2) - **Unsw Sydney Authentication** — 0 schemes - **Unsw Sydney Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC ## Plans (1) - **Unsw Sydney Plans Pricing** ## Tags University, Higher Education, Education, Research, Australia, Group of Eight, Sydney, Research Repository, Identity Federation, Course Catalog, Library, Open Repository --- Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/unsw-sydney/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.