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name: Western University
description: Western University public developer/API footprint review for APIs.json cataloging.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/western/refs/heads/main/review.yml
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
reviews:
  - date: '2026-06-03'
    rating: 2
    summary: >-
      Western University has a modest but genuine public API footprint, concentrated in
      Western Libraries. The institutional repository Scholarship@Western migrated in 2025
      to Scholaris, a national shared DSpace 8.3 service; its REST API root and OAI-PMH
      endpoint both resolve live (the REST root returns a HAL document confirming "DSpace 8.3 /
      Western University's Open Repository", and OAI Identify returns valid XML). Western
      Technology Services documents an institutional SSO supporting SAML2/OAuth/OIDC/CAS, but
      it is affiliation-gated rather than self-service. No official open course/timetable or
      open-data API exists; timetable data is documented only as scrape targets, with an
      unofficial third-party API on GitHub. There is no official Western GitHub organization
      (the "uwo" GitHub account is an unrelated personal user). Ratings, endpoints, and
      properties reflect only what was verified live, with no fabricated endpoints.
    endpoints:
      - url: https://www.uwo.ca/
        status: 200
        note: Official institution website resolves.
      - url: https://uwo.scholaris.ca/home
        status: 200
        note: Western's Open Repository (Scholaris/DSpace) home resolves.
      - url: https://uwo.scholaris.ca/server/api
        status: 200
        note: DSpace 8.3 REST (HAL) API root, publicly readable.
      - url: https://uwo.scholaris.ca/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
        status: 200
        note: OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint returns valid Identify XML.
      - url: https://uwo.scholaris.ca/server/api/core/items
        status: 401
        note: Core items endpoint requires authentication.
      - url: https://uwo.scholaris.ca/oai/request?verb=Identify
        status: 404
        note: OAI not at root path; correct path is under /server/oai.
      - url: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/
        status: 200
        note: Legacy Scholarship@Western IR site, now pointing to Scholaris.
      - url: https://www.lib.uwo.ca/
        status: 200
        note: Western Libraries site resolves.
      - url: https://wts.uwo.ca/services/o/single-sign-on-sso-saml2-oauth-oidc-cas/index.html
        status: 200
        note: WTS SSO service catalogue (SAML2/OAuth/OIDC/CAS); request-based, gated.
      - url: https://ssocas.uwo.ca/cas/login
        status: 200
        note: CAS web login endpoint resolves.
      - url: https://studentservices.uwo.ca/secure/timetables/mastertt/ttindex.cfm
        status: 200
        note: Undergraduate timetable; no official API, scrape-only.
      - url: https://westerncalendar.uwo.ca/
        status: 200
        note: Academic Calendar; no documented public API.