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Penn Courses API (Penn Course Alert / Plan / Review / Degree Plan)

One API, four student-facing products: Penn Course Alert (PCA), Penn Course Plan (PCP), Penn Course Review (PCR) and Penn Degree Plan (PDP), plus a shared Accounts resource. The live OpenAPI 3.0.2 document at penncourseplan.com/api/openapi/ declares 45 paths across 29 tags and returned HTTP 200 (415 KB) on 2026-08-19; public course search reads anonymously while review and user-scoped resources return 403. Operated by PENN LABS, a non-profit student-run software organization at Penn, on domains registered to Penn Labs — not by the university. The 29 OpenAPI documents held here are the per-tag split of that single contract; they are one surface, not twenty-nine. The previous profile listed them as twenty-nine separate University of Pennsylvania APIs.

Penn Courses API (Penn Course Alert / Plan / Review / Degree Plan) is one of 10 APIs that University of Pennsylvania publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Course Catalog, Courses, Course Reviews, Degree Planning, and Student Developers. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

This API exposes 3 operations across 1 path. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.2, at version 1.0.

Requests are made against 2 base URLs: https://penncoursereview.com, https://penncourseplan.com.

3 operations 1 paths 0 schemas 1 GET1 PATCH1 PUT

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.0.2
API Version
1.0
Base URL
https://penncourseplan.com/api
Resource Areas
1

Paths & Operations 3

Across 1 path, the API surfaces 3 operations — 1 GET, 1 PATCH, 1 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

[Accounts] User 3

These routes allow interaction with the User object of a Penn Labs Accounts user. We do not document /accounts/... authentication routes here, as they are described by the [Authen…

GET
/accounts/me/
(GET /accounts/me/) This view exposes the Penn Labs Accounts User object. User authentication required .
Retrieve User → 200403
PUT
/accounts/me/
(PUT /accounts/me/) This view exposes the Penn Labs Accounts User object. User authentication required .
Update User body → 200403
PATCH
/accounts/me/
(PATCH /accounts/me/) This view exposes the Penn Labs Accounts User object. User authentication required .
Partial Update User body → 200403

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

university-of-pennsylvania-accounts-user-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs University of Pennsylvania publishes across the network.

Penn Clubs API
Penn SDK (Python)
Penn SDK (JavaScript / Node)
PennKey Identity Provider — SAML 2.0 / Shibboleth Metadata
ScholarlyCommons at Penn — OAI-PMH
ScholarlyCommons at Penn — DSpace REST API
Penn Libraries Franklin Catalog — JSON API
Colenda Digital Repository — Search JSON
OPenn — Open Manuscript Data
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