---
aid: anu
name: Australian National University
description: >-
  The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university in
  Canberra, ranked #28 in the QS World University Rankings 2025 and consistently
  among Australia's leading institutions. ANU's public developer/API footprint is
  modest and research-driven rather than centered on a single institutional
  developer portal. The most prominent public API is QRNG@ANU (ANU Quantum
  Numbers), which serves live quantum random numbers over HTTP. ANU also exposes
  its Open Research institutional repository metadata via a standard OAI-PMH
  endpoint. Most administrative systems (timetabling, programs and courses,
  student services) are gated or community-scraped rather than offered as
  documented public APIs.
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/anu/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - Australia
  - Open Data
  - Quantum
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: anu:qrng
    name: QRNG@ANU Quantum Random Numbers API
    description: >-
      Public API serving live quantum random numbers generated by ANU's quantum
      optics research group. The legacy JSON endpoint returns arrays of uint8,
      uint16, or hex16 values (array length 1-1024) and requires no signup. A
      newer AWS-hosted service at quantumnumbers.anu.edu.au offers the same data
      with a free registered API key.
    humanURL: https://qrng.anu.edu.au/contact/api-documentation/
    baseURL: https://qrng.anu.edu.au/API/jsonI.php
    tags: [ Quantum, Random Numbers, Research, JSON ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://qrng.anu.edu.au/contact/api-documentation/
      - type: SignUp
        url: https://quantumnumbers.anu.edu.au/
  - aid: anu:openresearch-oai
    name: ANU Open Research OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH (Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) v2.0 endpoint for ANU's Open
      Research institutional repository (DSpace), exposing metadata for journal
      articles, theses, books, conference papers, and other open access scholarly
      outputs for harvesting and discovery.
    humanURL: https://openresearch.anu.edu.au/open-research-collections
    baseURL: https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/server/oai/request
    tags: [ OAI-PMH, Institutional Repository, Open Access, Research, DSpace, Metadata ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://openresearch.anu.edu.au/open-research-collections
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.anu.edu.au/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/AustralianNationalUniversity
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/the-australian-national-university/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/anu-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/anu-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/anu-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com