University of Washington

---
aid: university-of-washington
name: University of Washington
description: >-
  The University of Washington (UW) is a public research university based in
  Seattle, Washington, United States, ranked #52 in the QS World University
  Rankings 2025. UW operates a mature, institutionally documented developer
  footprint through its UW-IT Enterprise Web Services (EWS) program, which
  exposes a registry of REST/SOAP web services for student, identity, person,
  group, and ID-card data, each with public Swagger/OpenAPI documentation.
  Most production data endpoints require an institutional UW NetID,
  certificate-based authentication, and approved access; the documentation,
  service registry, and Swagger specifications are publicly browsable. UW also
  publishes open scholarly metadata through its ResearchWorks DSpace repository
  (REST API and OAI-PMH) and maintains active public GitHub organizations.
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-washington/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - United States
  - Student Information
  - Identity
  - Library
  - Open Data
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
# 2026-06-03: added local OpenAPI 3.0 specs (SWS v5, IdCardWS v1) and derived artifacts.
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: university-of-washington:student-web-service
    name: Student Web Service (SWS)
    description: >-
      The Student Web Service gives applications access to information in the
      UW Student database such as course data, registration data, section
      data, person data, and term data. It exposes a set of public and private
      APIs; production access requires approval and authentication, while the
      Swagger/OpenAPI documentation is public. Owned by the Office of the
      Registrar.
    humanURL: https://webservices.washington.edu/sws/
    baseURL: https://ws.admin.washington.edu/student
    tags: [ Students, Courses, Registration, Enterprise Web Services ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://webservices.washington.edu/sws/
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: https://ws.admin.washington.edu/student/swagger/index.html
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/university-of-washington-student-web-service.yaml
  - aid: university-of-washington:idcard-web-service
    name: IdCard Web Service
    description: >-
      The IdCard Web Service gives applications access to information
      associated with the Husky ID Card, such as cardholder photos.
      Production access is gated and authenticated; the Swagger/OpenAPI
      documentation is publicly viewable.
    humanURL: https://webservices.washington.edu/idcardws/index.html
    baseURL: https://ws.admin.washington.edu/idcard
    tags: [ Identity, ID Card, Photos, Enterprise Web Services ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://webservices.washington.edu/idcardws/index.html
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: https://ws.admin.washington.edu/idcard/swagger/index.html
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/university-of-washington-idcard-web-service.yaml
  - aid: university-of-washington:identity-registry-web-service
    name: Identity Registration Web Service (IRWS)
    description: >-
      The Identity Registration Web Service is the UW-IT Identity Registry
      REST API (V1 and V2) providing access to identity and person registry
      data. Access is authenticated and approval-gated; the API specification
      is publicly documented.
    humanURL: https://iam-tools.u.washington.edu/apis/irwsv2/
    tags: [ Identity, IAM, Person, Enterprise Web Services ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://iam-tools.u.washington.edu/apis/irwsv2/
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://iam-tools.u.washington.edu/apis/irwsv1/
  - aid: university-of-washington:enterprise-web-services
    name: UW-IT Enterprise Web Services Registry
    description: >-
      Enterprise Web Services (EWS) is UW-IT's secure collection of REST/SOAP
      web services that let enterprise business applications access commonly
      shared source data in a scalable, real-time, highly available
      architecture. The public registry catalogs services including Student,
      Person, Groups, HRP, IdCard, Financial, and Space web services, each
      with its own documentation and Swagger specification.
    humanURL: https://webservices.washington.edu/
    tags: [ Enterprise Web Services, Registry, Integration, Data ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://webservices.washington.edu/
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://it.uw.edu/summary/enterprise-web-services/
  - aid: university-of-washington:researchworks-dspace
    name: ResearchWorks Repository (DSpace REST + OAI-PMH)
    description: >-
      ResearchWorks is UW's institutional digital repository for disseminating
      text-based scholarly work produced by the UW community, running on
      DSpace. It exposes a public DSpace REST API and an OAI-PMH endpoint for
      open metadata harvesting of repository content.
    humanURL: https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/
    baseURL: https://digital.lib.washington.edu/server/api
    tags: [ Library, Institutional Repository, DSpace, OAI-PMH, Open Access ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/
      - type: OAI-PMH
        url: https://digital.lib.washington.edu/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.washington.edu/
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://webservices.washington.edu/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/uw-it-aca
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/uwwebservices
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-washington/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/university-of-washington-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/university-of-washington-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/university-of-washington-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]