mit-people

The People API provides basic directory information about students, staff and affiliates at MIT. The People API allows developers to perform searches of people by Kerberos ID or perform searches of people by family name. The results are paginated with a default page size of 100.

Another feature of the people API is the quick search. This search only returns currently active Students / Staff and Affiliates (with mitMoiraStatus=1 or 9). To execute this search, set q=&minimalData=true . This search can take either 1 or 2 search terms separated by either a space or plus sign. (ie. people/v3/people?q=Steve Smith&minimalData=true, people/v3/people?q=Steve+Smith&minimalData=true, people/v3/people?q=Smith&minimalData=true, people/v3/people?q=11111&minimalData=true(search by midId))
If you have permissions for partial search, then you can enter the partial name next to q and not add minimalData=true.
(ie. people/v3/people?q=Turne)
If you are searching for people in a department, then enter the following:
/staff?department=10000491
/faculty?department=10000491
/postdocs?department=10000491
If you are searching for students from a certain department:
/graduateStudents?course=5
/undergraduateStudents?course=5
/students?course=5