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name: KU Leuven
description: KU Leuven public developer/API footprint review for APIs.json cataloging.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ku-leuven/refs/heads/main/review.yml
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
reviews:
  - date: '2026-06-03'
    rating: 3
    summary: >-
      KU Leuven has a genuinely documented public developer footprint via ICTS
      Data Services (person, curriculum, organigram, research, educational
      offering, vacancies REST APIs) plus an OAuth-protected individual timetable
      API, and a Dataverse-based Research Data Repository (RDR). The RDR public
      info endpoint was verified live returning version 6.7.1; all documentation
      and portal pages probed returned HTTP 200. RDR write access and the intranet
      variants are gated (API token, ORCID, roles, service accounts). No single
      unified API gateway/portal with self-serve keys was found, and no machine
      OpenAPI spec is publicly served (the RDR OpenAPI doc is restricted to KU
      Leuven IPs). Rated 3 for a real, documented but partly gated footprint.
      No endpoints or properties were fabricated.
    endpoints:
      - url: https://admin.kuleuven.be/icts/services/dataservices
        status: 200
        note: ICTS Data Services hub / de-facto developer portal.
      - url: https://www.kuleuven.be/rdm/en/rdr/api-documentation
        status: 200
        note: RDR API documentation page.
      - url: https://rdr.kuleuven.be/api/info/version
        status: 200
        note: Public RDR (Dataverse) API endpoint, returned version 6.7.1 live.
      - url: https://rdr.kuleuven.be/dataverse/rdr
        status: 200
        note: RDR Dataverse portal root.
      - url: https://admin.kuleuven.be/icts/services/dataservices/api/person
        status: 200
        note: Person information API docs.
      - url: https://admin.kuleuven.be/icts/services/dataservices/api/program-opleiding
        status: 200
        note: Educational offering (programs) API docs.
      - url: https://admin.kuleuven.be/icts/services/dataservices/apiorganigraminformatie
        status: 200
        note: Organizational chart API docs.
      - url: https://admin.kuleuven.be/icts/services/dataservices/apivacatures
        status: 200
        note: Vacancies API docs.
      - url: https://admin.kuleuven.be/icts/services/dataservices/api/uurrooster
        status: 200
        note: Individual timetable API docs (OAuth/SAML protected).
      - url: https://github.com/kuleuven
        status: 200
        note: Official KU Leuven GitHub org, ~132 repositories.
      - url: https://github.com/KU-Leuven-Libraries
        status: 200
        note: KU Leuven Libraries GitHub (open datasets, digital humanities).
      - url: https://www.kuleuven.be
        status: 200
        note: Official institutional website.
      - url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/ku-leuven/
        status: 0
        note: LinkedIn school page; returns 999 to bots (anti-scraping), exists in browser.