University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania (Penn) is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, ranked #11 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Penn's public developer footprint centers on the Penn OpenData API, an institutional ESB service exposing Registrar, Dining, Directory, Transit, News and Events, Maps, Calendar, and Laundry data; access generally requires a validated API token issued by the university. A large share of the community-facing surface is built and documented by Penn Labs, a student-run software organization that publishes open-source SDKs (Python and JavaScript) and JSON REST APIs for Penn Courses, Penn Course Review, and Penn Mobile on top of the OpenData platform. Penn Libraries additionally exposes bibliographic metadata through OAI-PMH and Z39.50 under an open-metadata policy.
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 University of Pennsylvania the way a machine reads it — 47 machine-readable artifacts across 32 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 — University of Pennsylvania scores 36.8/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 39/100 (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.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile University of Pennsylvania
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for University of Pennsylvania. 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 32
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.
Penn OpenData API
Penn's institutional OpenData platform (an ISC enterprise service bus) providing access to Registrar/course, Dining, Directory, Transit, News, Events, Maps, Calendar, and Laundr...
Penn SDK (Python)
Open-source Python module maintained by Penn Labs that wraps the Penn OpenData services (Registrar, Dining, Directory and more). A validated OpenData API token is required for m...
Penn OpenData Node SDK
Open-source JavaScript/Node SDK from Penn Labs for the Penn OpenData API.
University of Pennsylvania [Accounts] User API
These routes allow interaction with the User object of a Penn Labs Accounts user. We do not document `/accounts/...` authentication routes here, as they are described by the [Au...
University of Pennsylvania [PCA] Registration API
As the main API endpoints for PCA, these routes allow interaction with the user's PCA registrations. An important concept which is referenced throughout the documentation for th...
University of Pennsylvania [PCA] Registration History API
These routes expose a user's registration history (including inactive and obsolete registrations) for the current semester. Inactive registrations are registrations which would ...
University of Pennsylvania [PCP] Break API
The [PCP] Break API from University of Pennsylvania — 2 operation(s) for [pcp] break.
University of Pennsylvania [PCP] Calendar API
The [PCP] Calendar API from University of Pennsylvania — 1 operation(s) for [pcp] calendar.
University of Pennsylvania [PCP] Course Recommendations API
The [PCP] Course Recommendations API from University of Pennsylvania — 1 operation(s) for [pcp] course recommendations.
University of Pennsylvania [PCP] Primary Schedule API
The [PCP] Primary Schedule API from University of Pennsylvania — 2 operation(s) for [pcp] primary schedule.
University of Pennsylvania [PCP] Schedule API
These routes allow interfacing with the user's PCP Schedules for the current semester, stored on the backend. Ever since we integrated Penn Labs Accounts into PCP so that users ...
University of Pennsylvania [PCR] Autocomplete Dump API
The [PCR] Autocomplete Dump API from University of Pennsylvania — 1 operation(s) for [pcr] autocomplete dump.
University of Pennsylvania [PCR] Course Reviews API
The [PCR] Course Reviews API from University of Pennsylvania — 1 operation(s) for [pcr] course reviews.
University of Pennsylvania [PCR] Department Reviews API
The [PCR] Department Reviews API from University of Pennsylvania — 1 operation(s) for [pcr] department reviews.
University of Pennsylvania [PCR] Instructor Reviews API
The [PCR] Instructor Reviews API from University of Pennsylvania — 1 operation(s) for [pcr] instructor reviews.
University of Pennsylvania [PCR] Plots API
The [PCR] Plots API from University of Pennsylvania — 1 operation(s) for [pcr] plots.
University of Pennsylvania [PCR] Section-Specific Reviews API
The [PCR] Section-Specific Reviews API from University of Pennsylvania — 1 operation(s) for [pcr] section-specific reviews.
University of Pennsylvania [PCx] Attributes API
The [PCx] Attributes API from University of Pennsylvania — 1 operation(s) for [pcx] attributes.
University of Pennsylvania [PCx] Course API
The [PCx] Course API from University of Pennsylvania — 3 operation(s) for [pcx] course.
University of Pennsylvania [PCx] Friendship API
The [PCx] Friendship API from University of Pennsylvania — 1 operation(s) for [pcx] friendship.
University of Pennsylvania [PCx] Healths API
The [PCx] Healths API from University of Pennsylvania — 1 operation(s) for [pcx] healths.
University of Pennsylvania [PCx] NGSS Restrictions API
The [PCx] NGSS Restrictions API from University of Pennsylvania — 1 operation(s) for [pcx] ngss restrictions.
University of Pennsylvania [PCx] Pre-NGSS Requirements API
The [PCx] Pre-NGSS Requirements API from University of Pennsylvania — 1 operation(s) for [pcx] pre-ngss requirements.
University of Pennsylvania [PCx] Section API
The [PCx] Section API from University of Pennsylvania — 2 operation(s) for [pcx] section.
University of Pennsylvania [PCx] Status Updates API
The [PCx] Status Updates API from University of Pennsylvania — 1 operation(s) for [pcx] status updates.
University of Pennsylvania [PDP] Degree API
The [PDP] Degree API from University of Pennsylvania — 2 operation(s) for [pdp] degree.
University of Pennsylvania [PDP] Degree Plan Detail API
The [PDP] Degree Plan Detail API from University of Pennsylvania — 4 operation(s) for [pdp] degree plan detail.
University of Pennsylvania [PDP] Degree Plan Lists API
The [PDP] Degree Plan Lists API from University of Pennsylvania — 1 operation(s) for [pdp] degree plan lists.
University of Pennsylvania [PDP] Docked Course API
The [PDP] Docked Course API from University of Pennsylvania — 2 operation(s) for [pdp] docked course.
University of Pennsylvania [PDP] Fulfillment API
The [PDP] Fulfillment API from University of Pennsylvania — 5 operation(s) for [pdp] fulfillment.
University of Pennsylvania [PDP] Onboard From Transcript API
The [PDP] Onboard From Transcript API from University of Pennsylvania — 1 operation(s) for [pdp] onboard from transcript.
University of Pennsylvania [PDP] Satisfied Rule Lists API
The [PDP] Satisfied Rule Lists API from University of Pennsylvania — 1 operation(s) for [pdp] satisfied rule lists.
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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.
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.
University Of Pennsylvania 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.
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.
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.
University of Pennsylvania API Rules
SPECTRALUniversity of Pennsylvania API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 3
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.
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.
University Of Pennsylvania Course Structure
JSON STRUCTUREUniversity Of Pennsylvania Section Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 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.
Security Posture 1
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.
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 Pennsylvania — 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
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 1
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 4
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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