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name: Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
description: Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur public developer/API footprint review for APIs.json cataloging.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/iit-kanpur/refs/heads/main/review.yml
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
reviews:
  - date: '2026-06-03'
    rating: 2
    summary: >-
      IIT Kanpur has no unified central developer portal. The verifiable public
      programmatic footprint is the P.K. Kelkar Library Koha system: a live
      OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint (Identify and ListMetadataFormats both returned valid
      OAI-PMH 2.0 XML, repository "PKK Library", oai_dc supported) and a Koha
      ILS-DI page (HTTP 200, Koha 23.11). The Koha SRU explain endpoint returned
      404 and was excluded. The Pingala ERP/SIS resolves but is login-gated with
      no documented public API. No single official institutional GitHub org was
      found (only club/department orgs). Only confirmed, live URLs were cataloged;
      no endpoints were fabricated.
    endpoints:
      - url: https://www.iitk.ac.in/
        status: 200
        note: Official institutional website; resolves live.
      - url: https://libserv.iitk.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/oai.pl?verb=Identify
        status: 200
        note: Live OAI-PMH 2.0 Identify; repository "PKK Library", earliest datestamp 2016.
      - url: https://libserv.iitk.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/oai.pl?verb=ListMetadataFormats
        status: 200
        note: Confirms oai_dc metadata prefix.
      - url: https://libserv.iitk.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/ilsdi.pl
        status: 200
        note: Koha ILS-DI discovery service landing page; Koha 23.11.
      - url: https://libserv.iitk.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/sru?version=1.1&operation=explain
        status: 404
        note: SRU not enabled; excluded from catalog.
      - url: https://pingala.iitk.ac.in/
        status: 200
        note: ERP/SIS portal; login-gated, no documented public API.
      - url: https://pkklib.iitk.ac.in/
        status: 200
        note: P.K. Kelkar Library site; resolves live.
      - url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/indian-institute-of-technology-kanpur/
        status: 200
        note: Official LinkedIn school page.
      - url: https://etd.iitk.ac.in/
        status: 0
        note: Did not resolve; no live standalone ETD repository host confirmed.