University of California, San Francisco

---
aid: ucsf
name: University of California, San Francisco
description: >-
  The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a public health-sciences
  university and the only UC campus dedicated exclusively to graduate and health
  professions education, biomedical research, and patient care. It is ranked #39 in
  the QS World University Rankings 2025. UCSF maintains a public developer presence
  centered on the CTSI-operated UCSF Profiles research-networking platform, which
  exposes an open JSON API covering 8,000+ researchers, faculty, and postdocs. UCSF
  also runs an internal developer portal (developer.ucsf.edu) and a MuleSoft Anypoint
  API platform managed by ITS Integration Services that catalogs SIS course
  enrollment, building metadata, ServiceNow, and CV APIs, but those are gated behind
  MyAccess SSO and the campus network and are not publicly consumable.
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/ucsf/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Health Sciences
  - Research
  - Researcher Profiles
  - Open Data
  - United States
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: ucsf:profiles-json
    name: UCSF Profiles JSON API
    description: >-
      Open JSON API from the CTSI-operated UCSF Profiles research-networking
      platform, providing data on 8,000+ UCSF researchers, faculty, and postdocs:
      name, school, department, title, ORCID, education, research interests,
      publications, grants, and more. GET requests return JSON (v2), with CORS and
      JSONP support. A source parameter identifying the calling application is
      required; no advance permission is needed to begin, but developers are asked
      to contact UCSF before production use and to refresh cached data weekly.
    humanURL: https://profilesdeveloper.ucsf.edu/json-api
    baseURL: https://api.profiles.ucsf.edu/json/v2/
    tags: [ Research, Researcher Profiles, Open Data, JSON, Publications ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://profilesdeveloper.ucsf.edu/json-api
      - type: DeveloperPortal
        url: https://profilesdeveloper.ucsf.edu/
  - aid: ucsf:developer-portal
    name: Developer@UCSF API Portal (internal)
    description: >-
      UCSF's institutional API catalog and developer portal, operated by ITS
      Integration Services on the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform. It documents APIs such
      as SIS Course Enrollment, Building Metadata (Archibus), ServiceNow incident
      creation, and CV/Advance data. Access requires MyAccess SSO and the UCSF
      network/VPN, so these APIs are not publicly consumable; listed here for
      completeness of the institutional API footprint.
    humanURL: https://developer.ucsf.edu/all-apis
    tags: [ Internal, Gated, MuleSoft, SIS, Identity ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://developer.ucsf.edu/all-apis
      - type: DeveloperPortal
        url: https://developer.ucsf.edu/
      - type: Authentication
        url: https://developer.ucsf.edu/apisucsf
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.ucsf.edu/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/UCSF
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/ucsf/
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://developer.ucsf.edu/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/ucsf-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/ucsf-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/ucsf-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/ucsf-context.jsonld
  - type: Blog
    url: blogs/blogs.json
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]