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Johns Hopkins University SIS Classes API

Course and section lookup and advanced search against the Self-Service Public Course Search API, which returns the Johns Hopkins course catalog as JSON. Filterable by school, department, course number, section number and academic term, or by a custom advanced-search query string. Requires an API key on the `key` query parameter.

Johns Hopkins University SIS Classes API is one of 9 APIs that Johns Hopkins University publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 2 JSON Schema definitions.

Tagged areas include Classes and Course Catalog. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and 2 JSON Schemas.

This API exposes 4 operations across 4 paths, and defines 2 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 1.0.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://sis.jhu.edu/api.

4 operations 4 paths 2 schemas 4 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
1.0.0
Base URL
https://sis.jhu.edu/api
Authentication
API Key
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Johns Hopkins University SIS Classes API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. An API key is passed in the query as key (apiKey). By default, every request must be authenticated.

Paths & Operations 4

Across 4 paths, the API surfaces 4 operations — 4 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Classes 4

Course and section lookup and advanced search.

GET
/classes/{courseNumber}
Get offered occurrences of a course number
getCoursesByNumber 2 params → 200401
GET
/classes/{courseNumber}/{term}
Get occurrences of a course number in a term
getCoursesByNumberAndTerm 3 params → 200401
GET
/classes/{school}/{department}/{term}
Get classes for a school, department, and term
getCoursesBySchoolDepartmentTerm 4 params → 200401
GET
/classes
Advanced course search
advancedSearch 17 params → 200401

Schemas 2

The contract defines 2 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Course (36 properties), SectionDetail (14 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

Course
object
A course offering record from the Public Course Search.
36 properties
SectionDetail
object
Section detail information returned when a full section is requested.
14 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

johns-hopkins-university-classes-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs Johns Hopkins University publishes across the network.

Johns Hopkins University SIS Codes API
JHU API Portal (MuleSoft Anypoint)
Johns Hopkins Shibboleth Identity Provider
Project MUSE OAI-PMH Repository
Johns Hopkins Research Data Repository
Johns Hopkins Research Portal (Elsevier Pure tenancy)
Johns Hopkins University Content API
Johns Hopkins University Taxonomy API
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