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UCL

University College London (UCL) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom, ranked #9 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. UCL has a notably mature public developer footprint via UCL API (uclapi.com), a student-built but Information Services Division (ISD) backed, open-source, OAuth2-secured platform that exposes UCL digital services such as room bookings, timetables, staff search, desktop/study-space availability, and workspaces. UCL also operates open-research infrastructure including UCL Discovery (open-access repository) and the UCL Research Data Repository (Figshare-powered). The UCL API is free to use and requires UCL affiliation for authentication.

agent ready

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 UCL the way a machine reads it — 46 machine-readable artifacts across 14 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 — UCL scores 50.6/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 55/100 (agent ready). 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.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 50.6/100 · developing
Contract Quality 14.8 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 6.1 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Regulatory · Government & Public Sector 8.8 / 15
Agent readiness — 55/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 7 / 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

How we profile UCL

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for UCL. 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 14

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.

UCL API Timetable

Fetch personal and module timetables with various filters for departments, modules, and student groups. Part of the UCL API platform.

UCL API Search

Search for staff (people) directory information within UCL. Part of the UCL API platform.

UCL API Workspaces

Fetch library study-space (workspace) availability, sensor data, and maps throughout UCL; availability is updated approximately every two minutes.

UCL API Resources

Fetch desktop / computer availability throughout UCL. Part of the UCL API platform.

UCL API OAuth

Authenticate and authorise applications for UCL users via OAuth2; tokens are issued through the UCL login system and used across all UCL API services.

UCL Discovery (OAI-PMH)

UCL Discovery is UCL's open-access institutional repository of research outputs. It exposes an OAI-PMH metadata-harvesting endpoint (EPrints). Access to the OAI endpoint was pro...

UCL Research Data Repository

The UCL Research Data Repository is UCL's institutional data repository, built on Figshare, used to deposit, archive, publish and assign DOIs to research datasets and outputs. F...

UCL Analytics API

View analytics and stats about your app or API services

UCL OAuth API

Authenticate and authorise applications for users

UCL Resources API

Fetch desktop availability throughout UCL

UCL Room Bookings API

Fetch details of room bookings within UCL

UCL Search API

Search for staff in UCL

UCL Timetable API

Fetch timetables with various filters for various groups

UCL Workspaces API

Fetch workspace availablility and maps throughout UCL

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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 six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Ucl 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.

Ucl 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.

Ucl 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.

Ucl Context

51 classes · 1 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.

UCL API Rules

6 rules · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

UCL API Rules

6 rules · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 9

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.

UCL API booking

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UCL API desktop_data

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UCL API equipment

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UCL API event

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UCL API person

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UCL API room

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UCL API sensor

22 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UCL API survey

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UCL API user_data

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 4

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.

Ucl Booking Structure

10 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Ucl Person Structure

4 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Ucl Room Structure

9 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Ucl User Data Structure

9 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 9

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.

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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.

Ucl Authentication

apiKey/oauth2 · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Ucl Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

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.

Ucl Scopes

2 scopes · authorizationCode

2 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.

Ucl Agentic Access

29 operations

29 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for UCL — 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 4

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 4

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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