UCL

---
aid: ucl
name: UCL
description: >-
  University College London (UCL) is a public research university in London, United
  Kingdom, ranked #9 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. UCL has a notably
  mature public developer footprint via UCL API (uclapi.com), a student-built but
  Information Services Division (ISD) backed, open-source, OAuth2-secured platform
  that exposes UCL digital services such as room bookings, timetables, staff search,
  desktop/study-space availability, and workspaces. UCL also operates open-research
  infrastructure including UCL Discovery (open-access repository) and the UCL
  Research Data Repository (Figshare-powered). The UCL API is free to use and
  requires UCL affiliation for authentication.
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/ucl/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - United Kingdom
  - Open Data
  - Research
  - Library
  - Timetable
apis:
  - aid: ucl:roombookings
    name: UCL API Room Bookings
    description: >-
      Fetch details of room bookings and free/empty rooms across UCL. Part of the
      UCL API platform; data is refreshed roughly every twenty minutes from UCL
      source systems.
    humanURL: https://uclapi.com/docs
    baseURL: https://uclapi.com/roombookings
    tags: [ Room Bookings, Facilities, Education ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://uclapi.com/docs
      - type: SignUp
        url: https://uclapi.com/
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: https://github.com/uclapi/uclapi-openapi/blob/master/uclapi.json
  - aid: ucl:timetable
    name: UCL API Timetable
    description: >-
      Fetch personal and module timetables with various filters for departments,
      modules, and student groups. Part of the UCL API platform.
    humanURL: https://uclapi.com/docs
    baseURL: https://uclapi.com/timetable
    tags: [ Timetable, Courses, Education ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://uclapi.com/docs
      - type: SignUp
        url: https://uclapi.com/
  - aid: ucl:search
    name: UCL API Search
    description: >-
      Search for staff (people) directory information within UCL. Part of the UCL
      API platform.
    humanURL: https://uclapi.com/docs
    baseURL: https://uclapi.com/search
    tags: [ Search, Directory, People, Education ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://uclapi.com/docs
      - type: SignUp
        url: https://uclapi.com/
  - aid: ucl:workspaces
    name: UCL API Workspaces
    description: >-
      Fetch library study-space (workspace) availability, sensor data, and maps
      throughout UCL; availability is updated approximately every two minutes.
    humanURL: https://uclapi.com/docs
    baseURL: https://uclapi.com/workspaces
    tags: [ Workspaces, Library, Sensors, Education ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://uclapi.com/docs
      - type: SignUp
        url: https://uclapi.com/
  - aid: ucl:resources
    name: UCL API Resources
    description: >-
      Fetch desktop / computer availability throughout UCL. Part of the UCL API
      platform.
    humanURL: https://uclapi.com/docs
    baseURL: https://uclapi.com/resources
    tags: [ Resources, Facilities, Education ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://uclapi.com/docs
      - type: SignUp
        url: https://uclapi.com/
  - aid: ucl:oauth
    name: UCL API OAuth
    description: >-
      Authenticate and authorise applications for UCL users via OAuth2; tokens are
      issued through the UCL login system and used across all UCL API services.
    humanURL: https://uclapi.com/docs
    baseURL: https://uclapi.com/oauth
    tags: [ OAuth, Authentication, Identity, Education ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://uclapi.com/docs
      - type: Authentication
        url: https://uclapi.com/docs
  - aid: ucl:discovery-oai
    name: UCL Discovery (OAI-PMH)
    description: >-
      UCL Discovery is UCL's open-access institutional repository of research
      outputs. It exposes an OAI-PMH metadata-harvesting endpoint (EPrints). Access
      to the OAI endpoint was protected (HTTP 403) at the time of review.
    humanURL: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/
    tags: [ Repository, OAI-PMH, Open Access, Research ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/
  - aid: ucl:research-data-repository
    name: UCL Research Data Repository
    description: >-
      The UCL Research Data Repository is UCL's institutional data repository, built
      on Figshare, used to deposit, archive, publish and assign DOIs to research
      datasets and outputs. Figshare exposes a public REST/OAI API; specifics are
      governed by the underlying Figshare platform.
    humanURL: https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/
    tags: [ Research Data, Repository, Figshare, Open Data ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://uclapi.com/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://uclapi.com/docs
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/uclapi
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/uclapi/uclapi
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://github.com/uclapi/uclapi-openapi
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ucl-uclapi.yaml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/ucl-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/ucl-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/ucl-context.jsonld
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://uk.linkedin.com/company/uclapi
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/ucl-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/ucl-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/ucl-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'