London School of Economics and Political Science
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom, a member of the Russell Group and the University of London, ranked in the QS World University Rankings top 40 and specialised in the social sciences. LSE operates no public developer portal, no open data portal, no course-catalog or timetable API, and no official GitHub organisation — github.com/lse is an unrelated systems-programming lab. Re-profiled on 2026-08-19 against the operator axis, its genuinely institution-operated machine-readable footprint is two things: a SAML2 Shibboleth identity provider registered in the UK Access Management Federation under entityID https://lse.ac.uk/idp, and an IMS LTI 1.3 platform on its own Moodle VLE serving a live JWKS, OAuth 2.0 token endpoint and OIDC authorization endpoint. Everything else that appears to be an LSE API is a vendor contract running under an LSE tenancy — EPrints Services hosts the research repository, Ex Libris Primo VE the library discovery layer, Quartex the digital library, Epexio the archive catalogue, and DataCite the DOI registration. Those tenancies are real institutional facts and are recorded as such; the contracts behind them belong to the vendors, not to LSE.
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 London School of Economics and Political Science the way a machine reads it — 15 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 — London School of Economics and Political Science scores 35.1/100 (thin), 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
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Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
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How we profile London School of Economics and Political Science
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for London School of Economics and Political Science. 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 7
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.
LSE Shibboleth Identity Provider (UK Access Management Federation)
LSE operates its own SAML2 Shibboleth identity provider for staff, students and library resource access, registered in the UK Access Management Federation under entityID https:/...
LSE Research Online (EPrints, OAI-PMH)
LSE Research Online is LSE's institutional repository — LSE's research outputs, LSE's metadata, LSE's registered OAI-PMH base URL and admin contact (lseresearchonline@lse.ac.uk)...
LSE Library Search (Ex Libris Primo VE / Alma)
LSE library discovery runs on Ex Libris Primo VE at librarysearch.lse.ac.uk, which CNAMEs to lse.primo.exlibrisgroup.com and then eu00.primo.exlibrisgroup.com, under LSE's insti...
LSE Digital Library (Quartex — IIIF / OAI-PMH)
The LSE Digital Library publishes digitised and born-digital material from LSE Library collections. The host CNAMEs to lse.custom.url.quartexcollections.com, an LSE tenancy on A...
LSE Archives Catalogue (Epexio)
The LSE Library archive catalogue at archives.lse.ac.uk runs on Epexio, a hosted archival discovery platform, served from AWS behind a certificate issued to LSE's own hostname. ...
LSE DOI Registration (DataCite)
LSE is a registered DataCite provider — member identifier lcqr, "London School of Economics", memberType consortium_organization, region EMEA, registered 2020-09-01, linked to R...
London School of Economics and Political Science LTI API
IMS Global Learning Tools Interoperability 1.3 / LTI Advantage platform endpoints.
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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.
Lse 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.
Lse 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.
Lse 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.
Lse Context
JSON-LDJSON 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.
LSE Moodle LTI 1.3 Platform JSON Web Key Set
JSON SCHEMAExamples 1
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.
Lse Lti Jwks Response
EXAMPLESecurity 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 London School of Economics and Political Science — 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 5
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 5
The organization behind the API
Other 4
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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