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University of Waterloo

The University of Waterloo is a public research university in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, known for cooperative education and for strength in mathematics, engineering and computer science. Unusually for this cohort, Waterloo genuinely operates its own API programme rather than appearing programmable through a vendor's contract: the Open Data API v3 at openapi.data.uwaterloo.ca is Waterloo-built and Waterloo-hosted, publishes a first-party OpenAPI at /swagger/v1/swagger.json, exposes 48 self-serve key-authenticated operations across courses, class and exam schedules, terms, subjects, academic organizations, locations, food services, important dates and web content, and carries a dated release-note stream, a published 120 requests-per-minute cap and a completed v2 retirement. Alongside it Waterloo runs a second, deliberately gated SourceAPI over authoritative Quest and WatIAM data, its own Shibboleth identity provider at idp.uwaterloo.ca, and the UWSpace institutional repository with DSpace REST and OAI-PMH endpoints on a Waterloo Libraries host. What it does not run is the research-data platform: Waterloo's data collection is a tenancy on the consortial Borealis Dataverse, and its status page is a Statuspage tenancy — both recorded here as relationships, not as Waterloo engineering. There is no unified developer portal spanning the three programmes; documentation is split between a Confluence space, a GitHub wiki and a Swagger UI.

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Reference-quality API operations across every facet — a rich contract, published governance, transparent operations, and machine-readable commercial terms.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles University of Waterloo the way a machine reads it — 57 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 Waterloo scores 66.5/100 (exemplar), with a separate agent-readiness read of 27/100 (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. 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.

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
University of Waterloo Kin Score — API readiness rating by API Evangelist

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How we profile University of Waterloo

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for University of Waterloo. 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 20

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.

University of Waterloo AcademicOrganizations API

The AcademicOrganizations API from University of Waterloo — 2 operation(s) for academicorganizations.

University of Waterloo Account API

The Account API from University of Waterloo — 5 operation(s) for account.

University of Waterloo ClassSchedules API

The ClassSchedules API from University of Waterloo — 3 operation(s) for classschedules.

University of Waterloo Courses API

The Courses API from University of Waterloo — 5 operation(s) for courses.

University of Waterloo ExamSchedules API

The ExamSchedules API from University of Waterloo — 2 operation(s) for examschedules.

University of Waterloo FoodServices API

The FoodServices API from University of Waterloo — 6 operation(s) for foodservices.

University of Waterloo HolidayDates API

The HolidayDates API from University of Waterloo — 3 operation(s) for holidaydates.

University of Waterloo ImportantDates API

The ImportantDates API from University of Waterloo — 2 operation(s) for importantdates.

University of Waterloo Locations API

The Locations API from University of Waterloo — 6 operation(s) for locations.

University of Waterloo Subjects API

The Subjects API from University of Waterloo — 3 operation(s) for subjects.

University of Waterloo Terms API

The Terms API from University of Waterloo — 3 operation(s) for terms.

University of Waterloo Wcms API

The Wcms API from University of Waterloo — 8 operation(s) for wcms.

University of Waterloo SourceAPI

A second, deliberately gated University of Waterloo API programme providing authenticated access to data from authoritative source systems including Quest (student information) ...

UWSpace DSpace REST API

The REST backend of UWSpace, the University of Waterloo institutional repository, running DSpace 8.4 on a University of Waterloo Libraries host. The root document at /server/api...

UWSpace OAI-PMH Endpoint

The OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for UWSpace, the University of Waterloo institutional repository. A verb=Identify request returns protocolVersion 2.0, repositoryNam...

University of Waterloo Shibboleth Identity Provider

The University of Waterloo's own SAML 2.0 identity provider metadata, served as XML from idp.uwaterloo.ca. The EntityDescriptor carries entityID https://idp.uwaterloo.ca/idp/shi...

University of Waterloo Dataverse Collection (Borealis)

Waterloo's named research-data collection on Borealis, the Canadian consortial Dataverse repository operated by Scholars Portal for the Ontario Council of University Libraries. ...

University of Waterloo Crossref Membership

The University of Waterloo is Crossref member 6095, holding DOI prefix 10.15353 with 3,104 DOIs registered as of 2026-09-01. This is an identifier-registry membership — a fact a...

University of Waterloo ROR Record

The University of Waterloo's Research Organization Registry record, ROR ID https://ror.org/01aff2v68, carrying the uwaterloo.ca domain, an establishment year of 1956, and cross-...

University of Waterloo Status API

Waterloo's public service status page at status.uwaterloo.ca, with the full Statuspage v2 JSON API behind it — status.json, summary.json and an RSS incident history all return 2...

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Open Collections 13

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).

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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.

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.

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.

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.

University Of Waterloo Context

28 classes · 0 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.

University of Waterloo API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

University of Waterloo API Rules

5 rules · 2 errors · 2 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 5

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.

AcademicOrganization

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Course

19 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Location

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Subject

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Term

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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.

University Of Waterloo Course Structure

11 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

University Of Waterloo Location Structure

6 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

University Of Waterloo Subject Structure

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

University Of Waterloo Term Structure

7 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 4

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 3

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.

University Of Waterloo Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

University Of Waterloo Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

University Of Waterloo Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

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.

University Of Waterloo Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 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.

University Of Waterloo Agentic Access

48 operations · 2 acting

48 operations · 2 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for University of Waterloo — 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 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Company 3

The organization behind the API

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Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of University of Waterloo, 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.

The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.

Corrections, re-scores, and removal are free — no partnership or purchase required, and you do not need to justify the request. A removed company is recorded as unrated, never scored zero for having asked. Acknowledgement within one business day; removal within two.

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