University of Hong Kong
The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is a public research university in Hong Kong SAR, founded in 1911 and ranked in the top 30 of the QS World University Rankings. It operates no public, self-serve API programme. The machine-readable surfaces HKU genuinely runs on its own hosts are identity infrastructure: a Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider at hkafidp.hku.hk, registered with the Hong Kong Access Federation in 2016 and exported to eduGAIN with REFEDS Research and Scholarship and SIRTFI declarations, and an AD FS OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect issuer at adfs.hku.hk publishing a live discovery document and JWKS. HKU ITS also runs an Azure API Management gateway (api.hku.hk) and developer portal (developer.hku.hk) that opened GenAI chat-completion, embedding and image-generation APIs to students in March 2026 — but every portal route redirects to institutional sign-in, so no specification, scope or endpoint list is publicly readable. Its research repository is a Figshare tenancy and its library discovery is an Ex Libris Primo tenancy: real institutional facts, vendor-operated contracts, recorded here as tenant relationships rather than credited to HKU. HKU publishes no OpenAPI, no robots.txt on its main host, no llms.txt, no status page and no API changelog.
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.
API Evangelist profiles University of Hong Kong the way a machine reads it — 29 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, 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 — University of Hong Kong scores 48.9/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 26/100 (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.
Why this profile is thin
HKU operates real APIs and a real gateway, but the only route to their contracts is an institutional sign-in. developer.hku.hk returns 200 on every route and redirects all of them to /signin; api.hku.hk answers with the Azure API Management 404 envelope on every unauthenticated path. What is publicly readable is identity infrastructure — a Shibboleth SAML IdP and an AD FS OIDC issuer, both on HKU hosts, both machine-readable, both catalogued here. Two further surfaces are blocked rather than absent: hub.hku.hk (DSpace/OAI-PMH) sits behind a Cloudflare challenge, and datahub.hku.hk (Figshare tenancy) returns an empty 202 to machine clients. No fabrication was needed to fill the gap and none was performed.
An API exists — we simply could not reach the contract without credentials or a sales conversation. This one is University of Hong Kong's to change: publishing the reference and a machine-readable spec at a public URL, while keeping key issuance behind whatever gate they like, would let an integrator evaluate the API before committing to a call.
What we probed
https://hkafidp.hku.hk/idp/shibboleth→ HTTP 200https://adfs.hku.hk/adfs/.well-known/openid-configuration→ HTTP 200https://adfs.hku.hk/adfs/discovery/keys→ HTTP 200https://adfs.hku.hk/FederationMetadata/2007-06/FederationMetadata.xml→ HTTP 200https://adfs.hku.hk/adfs/userinfo→ HTTP 401https://developer.hku.hk/apis→ HTTP 200https://api.hku.hk/→ HTTP 404https://hub.hku.hk/oai/request?verb=Identify→ HTTP 403https://datahub.hku.hk/→ HTTP 202https://www.hku.hk/robots.txt→ HTTP 404https://www.hku.hk/llms.txt→ HTTP 404https://api.github.com/orgs/hku-official/repos→ HTTP 200
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.
Kin Score
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How we profile University of Hong Kong
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for University of Hong Kong. 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 8
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.
HKU Shibboleth Identity Provider
The University of Hong Kong's own Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider, entityID https://hkafidp.hku.hk/idp/shibboleth, scope hku.hk. It self-publishes signed metadata (HTTP 20...
HKU ITS API Developer Portal and Gateway
HKU Information Technology Services runs an Azure API Management gateway at api.hku.hk and a developer portal at developer.hku.hk. Since 17 March 2026 the portal has issued subs...
HKU Scholars Hub OAI-PMH
HKU Scholars Hub is the University's DSpace-based open-access institutional repository and current research information system, on HKU's own host. It is documented as exposing a...
HKU DataHub (Figshare tenancy)
HKU DataHub is the University's research-data repository, running as a Figshare tenancy — datahub.hku.hk is a CNAME to figshare.com and the same content is served at hku.figshar...
HKU Libraries Discovery (Ex Libris Primo tenancy)
HKU Libraries' discovery layer runs on Ex Libris Primo VE at julac-hku.primo.exlibrisgroup.com under the JULAC consortium view 852JULAC_HKU. The catalog records are HKU's; the d...
HKU Microsoft Entra ID Tenant
HKU's Microsoft Entra ID tenant (42f9b54e-2477-41ba-bf09-7a0d2a83ff09) publishes a live OpenID Connect discovery document for the hku.hk domain. It is institution-specific and m...
University of Hong Kong Discovery API
Metadata documents that describe the identity service.
University of Hong Kong O Auth API
OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect protocol endpoints.
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Open Collections 11
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 COLLECTIONFigshare altmetric API
OPEN COLLECTIONFigshare altmetric articles API
OPEN COLLECTIONFigshare altmetric authors API
OPEN COLLECTIONFigshare altmetric collections API
OPEN COLLECTIONFigshare altmetric institutions API
OPEN COLLECTIONFigshare altmetric oauth API
OPEN COLLECTIONFigshare altmetric other API
OPEN COLLECTIONFigshare altmetric profiles API
OPEN COLLECTIONFigshare altmetric projects API
OPEN COLLECTIONFigshare altmetric symplectic API
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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.
Hku Plans Pricing
PLANSRate 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.
Hku Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 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.
Hku Finops
FINOPSSemantic 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.
Hku Organization Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 1
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.
University of Hong Kong API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 1
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.
HKU AD FS OpenID Provider Metadata
JSON SCHEMASecurity Posture 2
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.
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.
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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for University of Hong Kong — 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.
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 6
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 4
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 4
The organization behind the API
Other 6
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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This is an independent, third-party profile of University of Hong Kong, 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.
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