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EPFL

EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) is a Swiss federal institute of technology in Lausanne and one of the two federal technical universities in the ETH Domain. Measured on what it actually operates rather than what runs under its name, EPFL is unusual among research universities: it runs FOUR public, unauthenticated APIs on its own registrable domain. The Actu news API (actu.epfl.ch) and the Memento events API (memento.epfl.ch) are Django REST Framework services with live interactive CoreAPI documentation; Infoscience (infoscience.epfl.ch) is EPFL's self-hosted DSpace-CRIS repository serving a HAL/HATEOAS REST API and a working OAI-PMH provider; and GETprime (getprime.epfl.ch), from the Gene Expression Core Facility, answers primer-design queries over HTTP. EPFL publishes no OpenAPI for any of them and operates no developer portal, no API gateway (api.epfl.ch resolves only to RFC 1918 space), no plans, no rate-limit documentation and no deprecation policy — every OpenAPI in this repo is derived by API Evangelist and marked as such. Its library discovery runs on Ex Libris Primo/Alma through the SLSP consortium and its identity provider endpoint is hosted by SWITCH edu-ID; both are recorded here as tenant relationships, not as EPFL engineering. There is no public course-catalog or timetable API.

agent aware

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles EPFL the way a machine reads it — 40 machine-readable artifacts across 3 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — EPFL scores 42.6/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 21/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
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How we profile EPFL

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for EPFL. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 9

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

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

EPFL Actu News API

EPFL's public news API, serving the Actu newsroom — news, projects, channels, faculties, categories, themes and publics. Django REST Framework, read-only (Allow: GET, HEAD, OPTI...

EPFL Memento Events API

EPFL's public events and agenda API, serving the Memento calendar — events, mementos, registrations, domains, categories, faculties, spoken languages and vulgarizations. Django ...

EPFL Infoscience Institutional Repository

Infoscience is EPFL's institutional repository and CRIS, self-hosted on EPFL infrastructure and running DSpace-CRIS. It exposes a HAL/HATEOAS REST API rooted at /server/api with...

EPFL Graph Search

EPFL Graph Search is an EPFL-built knowledge-graph search over EPFL concepts, people, units and publications. It has a live HTTP API router — every /api/* path returns a JSON {"...

EPFL go.epfl.ch URL Shortener API

EPFL's institutional URL shortener publishes an API page describing token-authenticated link creation. Access is gated to EPFL community members holding an institutional token, ...

EPFL SAML Identity Federation Entities

EPFL is a registered member of SWITCHaai, the Swiss academic identity federation, which is exported to eduGAIN. Seventeen entityIDs containing "epfl" appear in the federation ag...

EPFL Identity Provider (SWITCH edu-ID, tenant)

EPFL's SAML identity provider is delivered by SWITCH edu-ID as a hosted, EPFL-branded IdP. The relationship is a real institutional fact — EPFL authenticates its community throu...

EPFL Library Discovery on swisscovery (Ex Libris, tenant)

EPFL's library discovery and resolution run on Ex Libris Primo VE with Alma behind it, delivered through SLSP (Swiss Library Service Platform). EPFL's holdings, EPFL's patrons, ...

EPFL Primers API

The Primers API from EPFL — 1 operation(s) for primers.

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Open Collections 14

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

EPFL Categories API

OPEN COLLECTION

EPFL Channels API

OPEN COLLECTION

EPFL Domains API

OPEN COLLECTION

EPFL Events API

OPEN COLLECTION

EPFL Faculties API

OPEN COLLECTION

EPFL Mementos API

OPEN COLLECTION

EPFL News API

OPEN COLLECTION

EPFL Projects API

OPEN COLLECTION

EPFL Publics API

OPEN COLLECTION

EPFL Registrations API

OPEN COLLECTION

EPFL Spoken Languages API

OPEN COLLECTION

EPFL Themes API

OPEN COLLECTION

EPFL Vulgarizations API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Epfl Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Epfl Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

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

Epfl Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

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

Epfl Context

27 classes · 12 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

EPFL API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

EPFL API Rules

5 rules · 1 errors · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

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

EPFL Memento Event

38 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EPFL Actu News

26 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 2

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Epfl Event Structure

25 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Epfl News Structure

21 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 2

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Epfl Listevents Example

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Epfl Listnews Example

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

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

Epfl Authentication

apiKey/http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Epfl Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Epfl Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Epfl Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Epfl Agentic Access

33 operations

33 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for EPFL — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Company 3

The organization behind the API

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Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of EPFL, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.

The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.

Corrections, re-scores, and removal are free — no partnership or purchase required, and you do not need to justify the request. A removed company is recorded as unrated, never scored zero for having asked. Acknowledgement within one business day; removal within two.

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