UCSF Profiles JSON API
Open, unauthenticated JSON API (v2) over UCSF Profiles, the research-networking platform run by UCSF CTSI, covering 8,000+ UCSF researchers, faculty and postdocs — name, school, department, titles, ORCID iD, education and training, narrative, keywords, publications, clinical trials, awards, and research activities and funding. GET requests return application/json with CORS support; JSONP is supported via a callback parameter. A `source` parameter identifying the calling application is required on every request, but it is an attribution convention rather than a credential. UCSF asks callers to make contact before production use, to add an acknowledgement, to refresh cached data at least weekly, and to leave at least one second between calls. Notably, deprecation notices travel in the response body itself via an `api_notes` field. Verified live 2026-08-19.
UCSF Profiles JSON API is one of 8 APIs that University of California, San Francisco publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition.
Tagged areas include Research, Researcher Profiles, ORCID, Open Data, and JSON. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, a support channel, a JSON-LD context, and 1 JSON Schema.
This API exposes 1 operation across 1 path, and defines 3 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.3, at version 2.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.profiles.ucsf.edu/json/v2.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Paths & Operations 1
Across 1 path, the API surfaces 1 operation — 1 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Look up a UCSF person's public research profile.
Schemas 3
The contract defines 3 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Profile (31 properties), ProfilesResponse (2 properties), Error (1 property). 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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