---
aid: ucsd
name: University of California, San Diego
description: >-
  University of California, San Diego (UCSD) is a public research university in
  La Jolla, California, ranked #36 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its
  developer and API footprint is operated primarily by Information Technology
  Services (ITS) through a developer guide and an SSO-gated Web API Portal, with
  most institutional APIs restricted to UCSD staff, students, and faculty who
  hold a Single Sign-On account. UCSD also runs TritonAI, an LLM gateway for
  campus users, and maintains active open-source GitHub organizations and a
  publicly browsable Library Digital Collections repository.
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/ucsd/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - United States
  - California
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: ucsd:developer-portal
    name: UC San Diego ITS Developer Guide
    description: >-
      The UC San Diego ITS developer guide provides the information needed to
      understand and navigate campus systems and build applications that conform
      to recommended architecture and guidelines. It is the entry point to the
      campus developer community and Web API resources.
    humanURL: https://developer.ucsd.edu/
    baseURL: https://developer.ucsd.edu/
    tags: [ Developer Portal, Documentation, Higher Education ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://developer.ucsd.edu/
  - aid: ucsd:web-api-portal
    name: UC San Diego Web API Portal
    description: >-
      The UC San Diego API Portal documents campus Web APIs and REST guidelines.
      APIs are available to UCSD developers (staff, students, and faculty) who
      have a Single Sign-On account; at this time the APIs are not open to
      developers outside of UCSD.
    humanURL: https://collab.ucsd.edu/api/api-documentation
    tags: [ API Portal, REST, SSO, Gated, Documentation ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://collab.ucsd.edu/api/api-documentation
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://collab.ucsd.edu/api/api-documentation/rest-api-guidelines
      - type: Authentication
        url: https://ucsdcollab.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/API/pages/22544505/FAQ
  - aid: ucsd:tritonai
    name: TritonAI Developer API
    description: >-
      TritonAI provides programmatic access to a curated selection of large
      language models through a secure, centralized LLM gateway powered by
      LiteLLM. It supports chat, reasoning, vision, image generation, OCR, and
      coding. Access is restricted to approved UC San Diego faculty, staff,
      researchers, and campus teams, authenticated with issued API keys.
    humanURL: https://tritonai.ucsd.edu/developer-apis/index.html
    baseURL: https://tritonai-api.ucsd.edu/
    tags: [ AI, LLM, Gateway, Gated, Documentation ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://tritonai.ucsd.edu/developer-apis/index.html
      - type: SignUp
        url: https://tritonai.ucsd.edu/developer-apis/index.html
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/ucsd-tritonai.yaml
      - type: x-json-schema
        url: json-schema/ucsd-chat-completion-request-schema.json
      - type: x-json-schema
        url: json-schema/ucsd-embedding-request-schema.json
      - type: x-json-structure
        url: json-structure/ucsd-chat-completion-structure.json
      - type: x-json-structure
        url: json-structure/ucsd-embedding-structure.json
      - type: x-example
        url: examples/ucsd-chat-completion-example.json
      - type: x-example
        url: examples/ucsd-embeddings-example.json
      - type: x-spectral-rules
        url: rules/ucsd-rules.yml
      - type: x-vocabulary
        url: vocabulary/ucsd-vocabulary.yml
      - type: x-json-ld
        url: json-ld/ucsd-context.jsonld
  - aid: ucsd:library-digital-collections
    name: UC San Diego Library Digital Collections
    description: >-
      The UC San Diego Library Digital Collections is a public search and
      discovery interface for over 100,000 digital objects (documents,
      photographs, audio, video, and datasets) managed in the locally developed
      Digital Asset Management System (DAMS). It is registered as a research data
      repository on re3data. No formally documented public REST/IIIF/OAI-PMH API
      surface was confirmed during this review.
    humanURL: https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/
    tags: [ Library, Digital Collections, Research Data, Repository ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100011577
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.ucsd.edu/
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://developer.ucsd.edu/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/UCSD
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/ucsdlib
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/uc-san-diego/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/ucsd-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/ucsd-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/ucsd-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com