Yale University

Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States, ranked #17 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer footprint centers on the Yale API Portal (developers.yale.edu), which exposes enterprise (SOA) and portal APIs such as the Courses Web Service and Buildings service behind an API key gated to holders of a valid Yale netid. Yale also operates LUX, a large public cross-collection discovery platform built on Linked Art / IIIF that serves JSON-LD data and a search API across more than 41 million cultural-heritage records, and publishes IIIF manifests for its digital library collections. Source code for LUX and many library systems is openly available on GitHub.

Yale University publishes 5 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Configuration API, Documents API, Facets API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Research, and Library.

The Yale University catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Yale University’s developer surface includes GitHub presence, engineering blog, and 10 more developer resources.

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40.2/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 22/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessFree

8 APIs

EducationHigher EducationUniversityResearchLibraryCultural HeritageLinked DataUnited States

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Composite quality — 40.2/100 · thin

Contract Quality 15.4 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 2.2 / 20

Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13

Governance 7.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.5 / 10

Agent readiness — 22/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 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 8

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Yale Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

JSON Schema 3

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Examples 3

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

SourceCode

SourceCode

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 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review

Review

Source (apis.yml)

aid: yale
name: Yale University
description: 'Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States, ranked
  #17 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer footprint centers on the Yale API Portal (developers.yale.edu),
  which exposes enterprise (SOA) and portal APIs such as the Courses Web Service and Buildings service behind an API key gated
  to holders of a valid Yale netid. Yale also operates LUX, a large public cross-collection discovery platform built on Linked
  Art / IIIF that serves JSON-LD data and a search API across more than 41 million cultural-heritage records, and publishes
  IIIF manifests for its digital library collections. Source code for LUX and many library systems is openly available 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/yale.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yale/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Library
- Cultural Heritage
- Linked Data
- United States
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: yale:courses
  name: Courses Web Service v3
  description: Returns public information for course offerings (course sections) for a given termCode and subjectCode, including
    titles, descriptions, instructors, meeting times, prerequisites and distributional designations. Responses are available
    in JSON or XML. Requires an API key obtained by registering an application in the Yale Developer Portal (Yale netid required).
  humanURL: https://developers.yale.edu/courseswebservicev3
  baseURL: https://gw.its.yale.edu/soa-gateway/courses/webservice/v3/index
  tags:
  - Courses
  - Catalog
  - Education
  - SOA
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.yale.edu/courseswebservicev3
  - type: Signup
    url: https://developers.yale.edu/how-info/how-do-i-get-access-apis
- aid: yale:portal
  name: Yale API Portal (Enterprise & Portal APIs)
  description: The Yale API Portal is the discovery hub for Yale's enterprise (SOA), portal and vendor/third-party APIs. Portal
    APIs include Buildings (name and location of Yale campus buildings), Courses, Course Subjects and GatewayServiceMetrics.
    Access to the developer portal and API keys is limited to individuals with a valid Yale netid.
  humanURL: https://developers.yale.edu/api-documentation
  tags:
  - Catalog
  - Buildings
  - Enterprise
  - SOA
  - Education
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.yale.edu/api-documentation
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://developers.yale.edu/
  - type: Signup
    url: https://developers.yale.edu/how-info/how-do-i-get-access-apis
- aid: yale:iiif
  name: Yale Digital Collections IIIF
  description: Yale University Library publishes International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) manifests for objects
    in its digital collections, enabling interoperable viewing and reuse of digitized images and metadata via standard IIIF
    Presentation and Image APIs.
  humanURL: https://collections.library.yale.edu/
  tags:
  - IIIF
  - Library
  - Images
  - Digital Collections
  - Cultural Heritage
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://iiif.io/guides/guides/collections.library.yale.edu/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/yalelibrary
- aid: yale:yale-configuration-api
  name: Yale University Configuration API
  description: Search configuration metadata
  humanURL: https://developers.yale.edu/courseswebservicev3
  baseURL: https://gw.its.yale.edu/soa-gateway/courses/webservice/v3/index
  tags:
  - Configuration
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/yale-configuration-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://lux.collections.yale.edu/content/technology
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/project-lux
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/project-lux
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/yale-orderedcollectionpage-schema.json
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/yale-linkedartentity-schema.json
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/yale-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-json-ld
    url: json-ld/yale-context.jsonld
  - type: x-rules
    url: rules/yale-rules.yml
- aid: yale:yale-documents-api
  name: Yale University Documents API
  description: Linked Art JSON-LD document retrieval
  humanURL: https://developers.yale.edu/courseswebservicev3
  baseURL: https://gw.its.yale.edu/soa-gateway/courses/webservice/v3/index
  tags:
  - Documents
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/yale-documents-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://lux.collections.yale.edu/content/technology
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/project-lux
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/project-lux
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/yale-orderedcollectionpage-schema.json
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/yale-linkedartentity-schema.json
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/yale-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-json-ld
    url: json-ld/yale-context.jsonld
  - type: x-rules
    url: rules/yale-rules.yml
- aid: yale:yale-facets-api
  name: Yale University Facets API
  description: Faceted aggregation over search results
  humanURL: https://developers.yale.edu/courseswebservicev3
  baseURL: https://gw.its.yale.edu/soa-gateway/courses/webservice/v3/index
  tags:
  - Facets
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/yale-facets-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://lux.collections.yale.edu/content/technology
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/project-lux
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/project-lux
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/yale-orderedcollectionpage-schema.json
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/yale-linkedartentity-schema.json
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/yale-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-json-ld
    url: json-ld/yale-context.jsonld
  - type: x-rules
    url: rules/yale-rules.yml
- aid: yale:yale-related-api
  name: Yale University Related API
  description: Related entity discovery
  humanURL: https://developers.yale.edu/courseswebservicev3
  baseURL: https://gw.its.yale.edu/soa-gateway/courses/webservice/v3/index
  tags:
  - Related
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/yale-related-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://lux.collections.yale.edu/content/technology
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/project-lux
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/project-lux
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/yale-orderedcollectionpage-schema.json
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/yale-linkedartentity-schema.json
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/yale-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-json-ld
    url: json-ld/yale-context.jsonld
  - type: x-rules
    url: rules/yale-rules.yml
- aid: yale:yale-search-api
  name: Yale University Search API
  description: Search and discovery across LUX scopes
  humanURL: https://developers.yale.edu/courseswebservicev3
  baseURL: https://gw.its.yale.edu/soa-gateway/courses/webservice/v3/index
  tags:
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/yale-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://lux.collections.yale.edu/content/technology
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/project-lux
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/project-lux
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/yale-orderedcollectionpage-schema.json
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/yale-linkedartentity-schema.json
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/yale-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-json-ld
    url: json-ld/yale-context.jsonld
  - type: x-rules
    url: rules/yale-rules.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/yale-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/yale-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.yale.edu/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developers.yale.edu/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/yalelibrary
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/project-lux
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/yale-university/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/yale-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/yale-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/yale-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
- url: https://news.yale.edu/news-rss
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com