University of Pittsburgh

---
aid: university-of-pittsburgh
name: University of Pittsburgh
description: >-
  The University of Pittsburgh is a public research university in Pittsburgh,
  Pennsylvania, United States, ranked #271 in the QS World University Rankings
  2025. Its public developer and API footprint is partly institutional and
  partly community-driven: the university co-operates the Western Pennsylvania
  Regional Data Center (WPRDC), a CKAN-based open data portal, and hosts the
  Project Tycho epidemiological data API. A widely used community Python
  library, PittAPI, exposes course, dining, library and other campus data, and
  the University Library System publishes an OAI-PMH feed from its
  D-Scholarship institutional repository. The university maintains an official
  GitHub organization plus several department/research-computing orgs.
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-pittsburgh/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Open Data
  - Research Data
  - Library
  - United States
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: university-of-pittsburgh:wprdc
    name: Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center (WPRDC) CKAN API
    description: >-
      WPRDC is an open data portal operated as a partnership between the
      University of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, and the City of Pittsburgh.
      It runs on CKAN and exposes the standard CKAN Action API for searching
      packages, reading dataset metadata, and querying tabular data via the
      DataStore. Datasets cover government, civic, housing, traffic, and
      health-related topics for the region.
    humanURL: https://data.wprdc.org
    baseURL: https://data.wprdc.org/api/3/action
    tags: [ Open Data, CKAN, Civic Data, Regional Data ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://data.wprdc.org
  - aid: university-of-pittsburgh:project-tycho
    name: Project Tycho API
    description: >-
      Project Tycho, hosted at the University of Pittsburgh, provides
      standardized global health and epidemiological surveillance data. Its
      public API supports listing reference variables (conditions, countries,
      pathogens, geographies) and querying datasets, returning results in CSV
      and the Project Tycho data format. Use of the API requires a free API key
      obtained from the user profile after registration.
    humanURL: https://www.tycho.pitt.edu/dataset/api/
    baseURL: https://www.tycho.pitt.edu/api
    tags: [ Research Data, Health, Epidemiology, Public Health ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.tycho.pitt.edu/dataset/api/
      - type: SignUp
        url: https://www.tycho.pitt.edu
  - aid: university-of-pittsburgh:pittapi
    name: PittAPI (community)
    description: >-
      PittAPI is an unofficial, community-maintained Python library (developed
      by the Pitt Computer Science Club) that retrieves data from University of
      Pittsburgh sources, including courses, dining, library, news, laundry,
      computer labs, shuttle routes, the people directory, and textbooks. It is
      distributed on PyPI and licensed under GPLv2.
    humanURL: https://github.com/pittcsc/PittAPI
    tags: [ Courses, Campus Data, Library, Python, Community ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://github.com/pittcsc/PittAPI
      - type: GitHub
        url: https://github.com/pittcsc/PittAPI
      - type: SourceCode
        url: https://pypi.org/project/PittAPI/
  - aid: university-of-pittsburgh:d-scholarship-oai
    name: D-Scholarship@Pitt OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      D-Scholarship@Pitt is the University Library System's institutional
      repository of research and scholarly output. It exposes an OAI-PMH
      metadata harvesting endpoint for programmatic access to repository
      records. Live HTTP probing returned a 403 from an automated client,
      indicating bot protection rather than a missing endpoint; verify
      interactively.
    humanURL: https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu
    baseURL: https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/cgi/oai2
    tags: [ Institutional Repository, OAI-PMH, Library, Research Data ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.pitt.edu
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/University-of-Pittsburgh
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-pittsburgh/
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/ulsdevteam
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/university-of-pittsburgh-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/university-of-pittsburgh-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/university-of-pittsburgh-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]