Hong Kong Baptist University
Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) is a publicly funded, UGC-supported research university in Hong Kong SAR. Re-profiled on 2026-08-30 under the API Evangelist university pipeline, which settles WHO OPERATES each surface before crediting any contract. HKBU operates no central developer portal, no public API catalogue and no institution-wide GitHub organisation; github.com/hkbu exists but is empty, and the only active HKBU orgs are research labs (HKBUNLP, HKBU-HPML). What HKBU does operate itself, verified by live probe, is four things: a Shibboleth/SAML 2.0 identity provider at buidp01.hkbu.edu.hk registered in eduGAIN through the Hong Kong Access Federation since 2018 and serving 12KB of signed SAML metadata anonymously; a self-built GenAI Platform whose Azure-OpenAI-shaped chat-completions and embeddings endpoints answer on genai.hkbu.edu.hk behind an api-key header, undocumented publicly; a self-hosted Moodle at buelearning.hkbu.edu.hk publishing a live IMS LTI 1.3 JWKS and OAuth2 token endpoint under HKBU's own signing keys; and a first-party mobile-app backend at mapp-api.hkbu.edu.hk with no public documentation. Everything that looks like an HKBU research API is not. The HKBU Scholars portal at scholars.hkbu.edu.hk is a CNAME to hkbu.elsevierpure.com — an Elsevier Pure tenancy. The 33 OpenAPI documents previously held in this repository were Elsevier's Pure Web Service contract 5.35.0 (info.contact pure-support@elsevier.com), the same document other Pure institutions ship, and have been removed along with everything derived from them. The data is HKBU's; the contract is Elsevier's, and it scores in Elsevier's repository, not here.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles Hong Kong Baptist University the way a machine reads it — 10 machine-readable artifacts across 5 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 — Hong Kong Baptist University scores 33.9/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 5/100 (human only). 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
HKBU operates four surfaces of its own and publishes a machine-readable contract for none of them. The Shibboleth/SAML 2.0 IdP metadata at buidp01.hkbu.edu.hk is fully anonymous and complete, but it is federation metadata, not an HTTP API, so it yields no OpenAPI. The GenAI Platform API and the Moodle LTI 1.3 / web-services endpoints are both live and both answer 401/400 for credentials rather than 404, proving the surfaces exist while withholding their shape; neither publishes an OpenAPI or public developer documentation. The mobile-app backend is first-party only. The one place HKBU did publish an OpenAPI — scholars.hkbu.edu.hk/ws/api — is an Elsevier Pure tenancy (scholars.hkbu.edu.hk CNAMEs to hkbu.elsevierpure.com) whose contract belongs to Elsevier and has been removed from this repository along with everything derived from it — 115 files. Two secondary institution hosts could not be read: digital.lib.hkbu.edu.hk returns a 403 "Access Denied" page to every client tried including a full browser User-Agent, and scholars.hkbu.edu.hk/en/ sits behind a Cloudflare interstitial. State is gated rather than none because real surfaces were confirmed live behind credentials, and rather than vendor_only because the institution-operated set is genuine.
An API exists — we simply could not reach the contract without credentials or a sales conversation. This one is Hong Kong Baptist University'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://buidp01.hkbu.edu.hk/idp/shibboleth→ HTTP 200https://genai.hkbu.edu.hk/general/rest/deployments/gpt-4o-mini/chat/completions?api-version=2024-05-01-preview→ HTTP 401https://genai.hkbu.edu.hk/general/rest/deployments/gpt-4o-mini/embeddings?api-version=2024-05-01-preview→ HTTP 401https://buelearning.hkbu.edu.hk/mod/lti/certs.php→ HTTP 200https://buelearning.hkbu.edu.hk/mod/lti/token.php→ HTTP 400https://buelearning.hkbu.edu.hk/webservice/rest/server.php?wsfunction=core_webservice_get_site_info&moodlewsrestformat=json→ HTTP 200https://scholars.hkbu.edu.hk/ws/api/524/openapi.yaml→ HTTP 401https://scholars.hkbu.edu.hk/ws/oai?verb=Identify→ HTTP 401https://mapp-api.hkbu.edu.hk/html/app_privacy_policy.html→ HTTP 200https://digital.lib.hkbu.edu.hk/→ HTTP 403https://data-hub.hkbu.edu.hk/→ HTTP 200https://github.com/hkbu→ 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
How this is scored →scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
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How we profile Hong Kong Baptist University
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Hong Kong Baptist University. 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 5
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.
HKBU Identity Federation (Shibboleth IdP / SAML 2.0 metadata)
HKBU's own SAML 2.0 identity provider, entityID https://buidp01.hkbu.edu.hk/idp/shibboleth, registered in eduGAIN by the Hong Kong Access Federation (HKAF) since 2018-03-14 with...
HKBU GenAI Platform API (undocumented, key-gated)
HKBU runs its own generative-AI gateway at genai.hkbu.edu.hk, fronting third-party models (Anthropic, Google, Meta AI, OpenAI) for staff and students. Probing on 2026-08-30 foun...
HKBU Moodle — IMS LTI 1.3 platform + web services
HKBU self-hosts Moodle at buelearning.hkbu.edu.hk on its own registrable domain. It publishes a live IMS LTI 1.3 Advantage tool-platform key set at /mod/lti/certs.php (HTTP 200,...
HKBU Mobile App Backend (gated)
Backend host serving the official HKBU Mobile application (mapp-api.hkbu.edu.hk). The host resolves over TLS 1.3 with HSTS and serves app support content such as the app privacy...
HKBU Scholars — Elsevier Pure tenancy (tenant relationship, contract not HKBU's)
HKBU Scholars is HKBU's research information portal and institutional repository, and it is an Elsevier Pure tenancy: scholars.hkbu.edu.hk is a CNAME to hkbu.elsevierpure.com, a...
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.
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.
Hong Kong Baptist University 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.
Security 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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Hong Kong Baptist University — 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.
Design & Contract 1
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 4
The organization behind the API
Other 5
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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This is an independent, third-party profile of Hong Kong Baptist University, 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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