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Rice Kinder Institute Urban Data Platform API

The only publicly callable API Rice University itself operates. Serves the Kinder Institute for Urban Research's Urban Data Platform: a 431-dataset catalog of Houston and Harris County urban data across fourteen subject categories, with 27 controlled vocabularies, DataCite DOIs under Rice's own 10.25612 prefix, and typed inter-dataset relations drawn from the DataCite RelationType vocabulary. Reads are anonymous and CORS-open; a member-scoped catalog sits behind an undocumented authorizer. Rice publishes no documentation, no OpenAPI and no developer portal for it — the description in this repository was written from live probes on 2026-09-01 and is marked `method: probed`. Operator is institution despite the AWS hostname: the API's own suggestedCitation field names "Rice University-Kinder Institute: UDP", kinder.rice.edu endorses and links the platform, and its DOIs resolve to DataCite client RICE.KINDER under member `rice`.

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Rice Kinder Institute Urban Data Platform API is one of 8 APIs that Rice University publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition.

Tagged areas include Open Data, Urban Research, Research Data, Datasets, and Geospatial. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, authentication docs, API documentation, and 1 JSON Schema.

This API exposes 5 operations across 5 paths, organized into 2 resource areas, and defines 4 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 2026-09-01.

Requests are made against 2 base URLs: https://lg4tooqkr1.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/prod, https://5l498ma30i.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/dev.

5 operations 5 paths 4 schemas 5 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.1.0
API Version
2026-09-01
Base URL
https://lg4tooqkr1.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/prod
Authentication
HTTP Bearer
Contact
Kinder Institute for Urban Research, Rice University
Resource Areas
2

Authentication & Security 1

Rice Kinder Institute Urban Data Platform API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (memberSession).

  • memberSession — Undocumented. Inferred only from the API Gateway authorizer's 401 envelope on /user/catalog. Not verified — no credentials were obtained or used.

Paths & Operations 5

Across 5 paths, the API surfaces 5 operations — 5 GET. They span 2 resource areas: Datasets, Reference. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Datasets 4

The public dataset catalog of the Urban Data Platform.

GET
/datasets
List every publicly visible dataset in the catalog.
listDatasets → 200
GET
/datasets/{datasetId}
Retrieve the full catalog record for one dataset.
getDataset 1 param → 200
GET
/datasets/{datasetId}/vrde
Retrieve the dataset record with its Virtual Research Data Environment location.
getDatasetVrde 1 param → 200
GET
/user/catalog
The signed-in member's view of the catalog.
getUserCatalog → 401
Reference 1

Controlled vocabularies the catalog's fields draw from.

GET
/lookups
Retrieve every controlled vocabulary the catalog uses.
getLookups → 200

Schemas 4

The contract defines 4 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are DatasetSummary (17 properties), LambdaRuntimeError (4 properties), AuthorizerError (1 property). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

DatasetSummary
object
One row of the public catalog listing.
17 properties 6 required
DatasetDetail
LambdaRuntimeError
object
A raw AWS Lambda runtime failure, returned with HTTP 200. This is a defect, recorded as observed. It is what an unknown datasetId produces.
4 properties
AuthorizerError
object
1 property

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

rice-kinder-udp-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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API Details
ID
rice:kinder-udp
Base URL
https://lg4tooqkr1.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/prod
Docs
https://kinder.rice.edu/initiative/urban-data-platform
Provider
Rice University
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