Tel Aviv University

---
aid: tel-aviv-university
name: Tel Aviv University
description: >-
  Tel Aviv University (TAU) is Israel's largest public research university, located in
  Tel Aviv, and is ranked #209 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. TAU does not
  publish a centralized, public developer portal or open-data API program. Its
  confirmed machine-accessible surface is limited to standard third-party platform
  endpoints: an ExLibris Primo discovery interface (institution code 972TAU_INST:TAU)
  backed by an Alma library services platform that exposes the usual Primo Search REST
  API and Alma OAI-PMH harvesting endpoints. Student-built, unofficial tooling also
  scrapes/wraps TAU's Moodle and information-management (IMS) systems. No officially
  documented, self-service public API was found.
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/tel-aviv-university/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Israel
  - Library
  - Discovery
  - Research
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: tel-aviv-university:primo-discovery
    name: TAU Libraries Primo Discovery (DaTA Search)
    description: >-
      Tel Aviv University Libraries run ExLibris Primo for catalog/discovery (branded
      "DaTA Search"), institution code 972TAU_INST:TAU. The hosted Primo platform
      exposes the standard Primo Search REST API. Programmatic access requires ExLibris
      API keys provisioned through the institution; there is no TAU-specific public
      developer portal.
    humanURL: https://tau.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=972TAU_INST:TAU&lang=en
    baseURL: https://tau.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search
    tags: [ Library, Discovery, Primo, ExLibris, Catalog ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/primo/apis/
      - type: Website
        url: https://en-libraries.tau.ac.il/
  - aid: tel-aviv-university:alma-oai-pmh
    name: TAU Libraries Alma / OAI-PMH Metadata Harvesting
    description: >-
      The TAU Libraries Primo discovery layer is backed by the ExLibris Alma library
      services platform. Alma deployments expose the standard OAI-PMH metadata
      harvesting protocol and the Alma REST APIs. Endpoints and harvesting access are
      platform-standard and institution-provisioned; TAU does not publish a dedicated
      OAI-PMH base URL or developer docs of its own.
    humanURL: https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/alma/integrations/oai/
    tags: [ Library, OAI-PMH, Alma, ExLibris, Metadata, Harvesting ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/alma/integrations/oai/
  - aid: tel-aviv-university:unofficial-tau-tools
    name: Unofficial tau-tools (Moodle / IMS / course data)
    description: >-
      A community/student project (Arazim Project) that programmatically wraps several
      TAU web systems — including the Moodle LMS, the information-management (IMS) grade
      system, and course/study-plan data — and republishes aggregated course and plan
      JSON. This is unofficial, third-party tooling, not an official TAU API, and may
      break or violate terms of use.
    humanURL: https://github.com/arazimproject/tau-tools
    tags: [ Unofficial, Moodle, LMS, Courses, Community, ThirdParty ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://github.com/arazimproject/tau-tools
      - type: GitHub
        url: https://github.com/arazimproject/tau-tools
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://english.tau.ac.il/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/arazimproject
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://il.linkedin.com/school/tel-aviv-university/
  - type: Twitter
    url: https://x.com/telavivuni
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/tel-aviv-university-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/tel-aviv-university-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/tel-aviv-university-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]