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name: Technical University of Munich
description: Technical University of Munich public developer/API footprint review for APIs.json cataloging.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tum/refs/heads/main/review.yml
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
reviews:
  - date: '2026-06-03'
    rating: 3
    summary: >-
      TUM has no single central commercial developer portal. Its public API
      footprint is real but community/student-driven via the TUM-Dev GitHub
      organization. I verified NavigaTUM's live /api/search endpoint returns
      JSON without auth, and eat-api serves live static canteen JSON. The
      Campus-Backend (gRPC) is open source but operated for the apps rather than
      documented for third parties. TUMFIS runs on Elsevier Pure but exposes no
      documented public API. No endpoints were fabricated; the /api/get/{id}
      direct probe returned 404 (path requires a valid resolvable id), so only
      confirmed-working URLs are rated as live.
    endpoints:
      - url: https://nav.tum.de/api/search?q=mi
        status: 200
        note: NavigaTUM search API live, returns JSON results for buildings/rooms.
      - url: https://nav.tum.de/
        status: 200
        note: NavigaTUM website live.
      - url: https://tum-dev.github.io/eat-api/mensa-garching/2024/20.json
        status: 200
        note: eat-api static canteen JSON live with dish names and prices.
      - url: https://tum-dev.github.io/eat-api/
        status: 200
        note: eat-api documentation/index page live.
      - url: https://github.com/TUM-Dev
        status: 200
        note: TUM-Dev open-source org hosting NavigaTUM, eat-api, Campus-Backend.
      - url: https://github.com/TUM-Dev/NavigaTUM
        status: 200
        note: NavigaTUM repo with OpenAPI 3.0 spec and server README.
      - url: https://github.com/TUM-Dev/eat-api
        status: 200
        note: eat-api repo with usage documentation.
      - url: https://www.tum.dev/
        status: 200
        note: TUM-Dev university group landing page.
      - url: https://www.tum.de/en/
        status: 200
        note: Official institutional website.
      - url: https://portal.fis.tum.de/
        status: 200
        note: TUMFIS research information system (Elsevier Pure); no public API documented.
      - url: https://nav.tum.de/api/get/root
        status: 404
        note: Direct get path 404 without a valid resolvable entity id; not cataloged as a live endpoint.