name: Imperial College London
description: Imperial College London public developer/API footprint review for APIs.json cataloging.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/imperial-college-london/refs/heads/main/review.yml
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
reviews:
  - date: '2026-06-03'
    rating: 2
    summary: >-
      Imperial College London has machine-accessible interfaces but no first-party,
      self-service, documented developer/API portal. The verified public footprint is
      its GitHub organization (github.com/ImperialCollegeLondon, HTTP 200, ~748 repos),
      the Spiral open-access repository (DSpace-CRIS), an Ex Libris Primo/Alma library
      discovery system (vendor-gated), and a Shibboleth/SAML identity provider in the UK
      Access Management Federation. No developer.imperial.ac.uk or data.* open-data
      portal was found. Spiral's OAI-PMH/REST endpoints are DSpace platform-standard but
      were not independently confirmed live this session (the OAI probe returned HTTP
      429, rate-limited). Cataloged conservatively; re-evaluate if Imperial publishes a
      first-party API program.
    endpoints:
      - url: https://github.com/ImperialCollegeLondon
        status: 200
        note: Verified — main code organization, ~748 repos.
      - url: https://imperialcollegelondon.github.io/
        status: 200
        note: GitHub-usage docs, not an API portal.
      - url: https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/
        status: 200
        note: Open-access repository (DSpace-CRIS); 90,000+ outputs.
      - url: https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/oai/request
        status: 429
        note: OAI-PMH endpoint rate-limited during probe; path is DSpace-standard, not independently confirmed.
      - url: https://library-search.imperial.ac.uk/discovery/search
        status: 200
        note: Ex Libris Primo discovery (JS app); APIs vendor-gated, not Imperial-published.