EPFL

---
aid: epfl
name: EPFL
description: >-
  EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) is a public research
  university in Lausanne, Switzerland, ranked #19 in the QS World University
  Rankings 2025. EPFL exposes several public, documented REST APIs across its
  digital campus, including the Actu news API and the Memento events API
  (both with self-service interactive docs), and its Infoscience institutional
  repository runs on DSpace 7 with a public REST API and OAI-PMH endpoint.
  Additional EPFL code is published openly across official GitHub
  organizations such as EPFL-SI (IT systems and infrastructure) and EPFL-ENAC.
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/epfl/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - Open Data
  - Switzerland
  - Europe
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: epfl:actu
    name: EPFL Actu News API
    description: >-
      Public REST API serving EPFL news ("Actu") content, with resources for
      news, projects, channels, faculties, categories, themes and publics.
      Supports pagination, search and language preferences. Default access is
      unauthenticated; optional Token, Basic and Session authentication exist.
    humanURL: https://actu.epfl.ch/api-docs/
    baseURL: https://actu.epfl.ch/api/v1/
    tags: [ News, Content, REST ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://actu.epfl.ch/api-docs/
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/epfl-actu.yaml
  - aid: epfl:memento
    name: EPFL Memento Events API
    description: >-
      Public REST API serving EPFL events ("Memento"), with resources for
      events, mementos, categories, domains, faculties, registrations, spoken
      languages and vulgarizations. The Events endpoint supports extensive
      filtering by date, time, speaker, location and language, plus pagination,
      search and ordering. Default access is unauthenticated.
    humanURL: https://memento.epfl.ch/api/docs/
    baseURL: https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/
    tags: [ Events, Calendar, REST ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://memento.epfl.ch/api/docs/
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/epfl-memento.yaml
  - aid: epfl:infoscience
    name: EPFL Infoscience Repository API
    description: >-
      Infoscience is EPFL's institutional repository, running on DSpace 7.6.2.
      It exposes a public HATEOAS/HAL REST API (items, collections,
      communities, bitstreams, discovery/search and more) and an OAI-PMH
      endpoint for metadata harvesting of EPFL publications and research output.
    humanURL: https://infoscience.epfl.ch/
    baseURL: https://infoscience.epfl.ch/server/api
    tags: [ Repository, Research, DSpace, OAI-PMH, Open Access ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://infoscience.epfl.ch/server/api
      - type: OAI-PMH
        url: https://infoscience.epfl.ch/oai/request?verb=Identify
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.epfl.ch
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/epfl-si
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/epfl/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/epfl-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/epfl-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/epfl-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]