University of Auckland

---
aid: university-of-auckland
name: University of Auckland
description: >-
  The University of Auckland is New Zealand's largest and highest-ranked
  university, placed #92 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public
  developer and API footprint is modest and decentralized rather than a single
  unified developer portal. The most clearly documented machine-readable
  interfaces are its institutional Figshare research data repository (REST API
  and OAI-PMH, institution id 12) and a public University Directory staff-search
  API. The University also maintains a domain-verified GitHub organization where
  it publishes open-source projects spanning data engineering, identity
  integration, and research tooling.
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/university-of-auckland/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research Data
  - Open Data
  - New Zealand
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: university-of-auckland:figshare-rest
    name: University of Auckland Figshare Research Repository API
    description: >-
      Figshare-hosted institutional research data repository for the University
      of Auckland. The Figshare v2 REST API exposes public articles, datasets,
      collections, and projects; University of Auckland records are filtered via
      the institution=12 parameter (confirmed by k6.auckland DOIs). Figshare
      recommends no more than one request per second.
    humanURL: https://auckland.figshare.com/
    baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2
    tags: [ Research Data, Open Data, Repository, Datasets, REST ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.figshare.com/
      - type: Website
        url: https://auckland.figshare.com/
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/university-of-auckland-figshare-rest.yaml
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/university-of-auckland-article-schema.json
      - type: x-example
        url: examples/university-of-auckland-articles-list-example.json
  - aid: university-of-auckland:figshare-oai
    name: University of Auckland Figshare OAI-PMH Service
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH metadata harvesting endpoint for the University of Auckland
      Figshare research repository. Supports standard OAI-PMH verbs and multiple
      metadata schemas (Dublin Core, DataCite, RDF, CERIF XML, METS, UKETD_DC),
      with University of Auckland records exposed via the Figshare portal set.
    humanURL: https://docs.figshare.com/old_docs/OAI-PMH/
    baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2/oai
    tags: [ Research Data, OAI-PMH, Metadata, Harvesting, Repository ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.figshare.com/old_docs/OAI-PMH/
      - type: Website
        url: https://auckland.figshare.com/
  - aid: university-of-auckland:unidirectory
    name: University Directory API
    description: >-
      A set of public University Directory APIs that allow anyone to search for
      University of Auckland staff and retrieve a summary profile or a full
      profile of a staff member. Documented as available externally without a
      password (anonymous access). NOTE: the unidirectory.auckland.ac.nz host
      did not resolve from the verification environment, so this entry is based
      on published documentation references rather than a live probe.
    humanURL: https://unidirectory.auckland.ac.nz/apidocs
    tags: [ Directory, Staff, Search, People ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://unidirectory.auckland.ac.nz/apidocs
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.auckland.ac.nz/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/university-of-auckland
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-auckland/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/university-of-auckland-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/university-of-auckland-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/university-of-auckland-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-auckland-vocabulary.yml
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/university-of-auckland-rules.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/university-of-auckland-context.jsonld
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]