McMaster University

---
aid: mcmaster
name: McMaster University
description: >-
  McMaster University is a public research university in Hamilton, Ontario,
  Canada, ranked #176 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its developer
  and API presence is centered on a gated API service developer portal operated
  by University Technology Services, which requires institutional MacID
  authentication and a registration step before any API can be subscribed to;
  the underlying API catalog is therefore not publicly browsable. The most
  openly accessible programmatic interface is the library's MacSphere
  institutional repository, a DSpace platform that exposes a public OAI-PMH
  metadata-harvesting endpoint.
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/mcmaster/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Canada
  - Ontario
  - Research
  - Open Access
  - Library
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: mcmaster:developer-portal
    name: McMaster API Service Developer Portal
    description: >-
      Institutional API management developer portal operated by McMaster
      University Technology Services. Access requires sign-in with a MacID and
      password plus a short registration step; APIs and products cannot be
      browsed or subscribed to without authentication, so the catalog is gated
      and not publicly documented.
    humanURL: https://developer.api.mcmaster.ca/
    tags: [ Developer Portal, Authentication, Gated, API Management ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://developer.api.mcmaster.ca/
      - type: SignUp
        url: https://developer.api.mcmaster.ca/
  - aid: mcmaster:macsphere-oai
    name: MacSphere OAI-PMH Repository Interface
    description: >-
      Publicly accessible OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting interface for
      MacSphere, McMaster University Libraries' DSpace institutional repository
      of theses, dissertations, and open-access research outputs. Supports the
      standard OAI-PMH verbs (Identify, ListRecords, ListSets, GetRecord) over
      HTTP returning XML metadata.
    humanURL: https://library.mcmaster.ca/research/getting-started-macsphere
    baseURL: https://macsphere.mcmaster.ca/server/oai/request
    tags: [ Library, OAI-PMH, DSpace, Open Access, Institutional Repository, Metadata ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://library.mcmaster.ca/research/getting-started-macsphere
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.mcmaster.ca/
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://developer.api.mcmaster.ca/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/mcmaster-university
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://ca.linkedin.com/school/mcmaster-university/
  - type: Status
    url: https://uts.mcmaster.ca/status/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/mcmaster-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/mcmaster-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/mcmaster-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/mcmaster-context.jsonld
  - type: Blog
    url: blogs/blogs.json
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]