UM Data and Open Data API Platform
Sixteen JSON APIs, nineteen operations, all GET, covering About UM (organizational units in Chinese, English and Portuguese; public holidays), Academic (course catalog and per-semester course offerings addressable as {course}-{year}-{sem} and down to a section code), Facilities (car park availability, computer room PC status and reservations, shuttle bus arrival times, sports facilities and bookings, door access control records with hashed cardholder ids, outdoor WiFi access logs), Media (news and events) and Student (residential college hostel bed spaces, student job vacancies). Collection operations share one documented convention: page, pagesize (max 100), count and sort_by, with records wrapped in _embedded alongside _returned, _size and _total_pages. Authentication is an Azure API Management subscription key in the Authorization header, obtained by subscribing to the single published product, "UM Members", after registering the service through UMPASS. There is no OAuth flow and no scope model. The API is documented publicly and callable only by the university's own members.
UM Data and Open Data API Platform is one of 9 APIs that University of Macau 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, Course Catalog, Campus Life, Education, and Macau. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, authentication docs, API documentation, an API reference, a getting-started guide, a support channel, and 1 JSON Schema.
This API exposes 19 operations across 19 paths, organized into 16 resource areas, and defines 2 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.1, at version 1.0.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.data.um.edu.mo.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 2
UM Data and Open Data API Platform declares
2 security schemes
for authenticating requests.
An API key is passed in the header as Authorization (apiKeyHeader).
An API key is passed in the query as subscription-key (apiKeyQuery).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
apiKeyHeader— Subscription key from the UM Members product subscription, sent as the raw value of the Authorization header.apiKeyQuery— Same subscription key, supplied as a query parameter.
Paths & Operations 19
Across 19 paths, the API surfaces 19 operations — 19 GET. They span 16 resource areas, including Access Control Records, Car Park Availability, Computer Room PC Status, Computer Room Reservations, Course Catalog, Courses, Events, News, and 8 more. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
This data set includes online door access records.
This data set includes the total number of available parking spaces for the car park according to the vehicle type or parking type.
This data set includes the locations and availability status of computer room PCs at the University of Macau. It details the PC name, locations and availability.
This data set includes latest information of computer room locations and reservations records.
This data set includes all course information of current academic year.
This data set includes courses and their corresponding sections. For each section, two JSON Array of objects detail the schedule and instructor arrangements.
This data set includes events data of the University of Macau.
This data set includes news data published by the University of Macau.
This data set includes current units and sub-units information of the University of Macau in three languages: Chinese, English and Portuguese.
This data set includes the date of the public holidays of the University of Macau.
This data set includes current information of bed spaces in residential college excluded PGH. No historical records, and bed name is pre-generated for the whole year ahead.
This data set includes the bus arrival time records and station information.
This data set includes current sports facilities on the University of Macau campus.
This data set includes booking information about current sports facilities on the University of Macau campus.
This data set includes information of job vacancy advertisement posted in Job Vacancy E-system for student.
This data set includes WiFi access logs from outdoor wireless access points.
Schemas 2
The contract defines 2 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are PagedCollection (4 properties), Error (2 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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