Hydra Resto API
Open JSON API for Ghent University's student restaurants - locations and opening hours, day menus, weekly ecological sandwiches, salad bowls, extra food and allergen information - served from hydra.ugent.be, a university host. It is built and maintained by Zeus WPI, the university's computer-science student working group, and powers the Hydra student app; the menu data itself is scraped from ugent.be and remains the university's. Version 1.0 is retired, 2.x is current, and the operator documents a real forward-compatibility contract - clients must tolerate new values of kind and type. Day-menu dates use unpadded components (/menu/en/2026/9/1.json); the zero-padded form returns 404.
Hydra Resto API is one of 12 APIs that Ghent University publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition.
Tagged areas include Campus Life, Students, Menus, Open Data, and Community. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an OpenAPI specification, an API reference, and 1 JSON Schema.
This API exposes 9 operations across 9 paths, organized into 3 resource areas, and defines 11 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 2.5.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://hydra.ugent.be/api/2.0/resto.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Paths & Operations 9
Across 9 paths, the API surfaces 9 operations — 9 GET. They span 3 resource areas: Locations, Food, Menu. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Schemas 11
The contract defines 11 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Location (7 properties), DayMenu (6 properties), WeeklySandwich (5 properties), Meal (5 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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