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Universities List

Search universities by name, country and domain

📚 Open DataUNMONITOREDchecked 14 min ago
AUTH NONECORS ✓AGENT ✓HTTPS ✗COMMERCIAL ?

This community dataset (Hipolabs) lets you search universities worldwide and get back their names, countries, web pages and email domains as JSON. Filter with ?name= and/or ?country= — no key, no signup. Note the public host is HTTP-only; there is no working HTTPS endpoint.

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Uptime history
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Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET http://universities.hipolabs.com/search?name=middle&limit=1

[
  {
    "name": "Middlesex University - London",
    "country": "United Kingdom",
    "alpha_two_code": "GB",
    "domains": [
      "mdx.ac.uk"
    ],
    "web_pages": [
      "https://www.mdx.ac.uk/"
    ],
    "state-province": null
  }
]
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "http://universities.hipolabs.com/search?name=middle&limit=1"
const res = await fetch("http://universities.hipolabs.com/search?name=middle&limit=1");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("http://universities.hipolabs.com/search?name=middle&limit=1")
print(res.json())

BROWSER CALLS BLOCKED (NO CORS/HTTPS) — USE THE CURL SNIPPET

Endpoints · 3On scheduleFULL DOCS ↗
First rollup pending — GET /search?name=middle&limit=1 has been probed
GET/search?name=middle&limit=1PROBED

Search universities by name, country and domain

GET/search?limit=5

Search by query parameters.

GET/search?page=1

Search by query parameters.

Machine-readable spec

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Export includes every documented route below.

Response-shape history

Stable. No schema drift observed since monitoring began — the response shape has not changed under our checks.

Universities List: common questions

Is Universities List free to use?

Yes — Universities List is a free open data API. Free tier: Free — limits not published. Whether the free tier allows commercial use is unclear — check the provider docs.

Does Universities List need an API key?

No — Universities List needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).

Can I call Universities List from the browser?

Not directly — Universities List doesn't send browser-friendly CORS headers, so call it from a server or proxy instead. Copy the curl or Python snippet on this page to get started.

Is Universities List up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, Universities List is unmonitored. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.