---
title: "Sivitas API"
url: "https://ridwaanhall.com/projects/pddikti-data-vault"
markdown: "https://ridwaanhall.com/projects/pddikti-data-vault.md"
summary: "Sivitas API: a documented FastAPI service for Indonesian higher-education data, behind a TLS-impersonating client."
---

# Sivitas API

> Sivitas API: a documented FastAPI service for Indonesian higher-education data, behind a TLS-impersonating client.

- Category: API
- Status: Maintenance Support
- Started: July 6, 2025
- Built with: FastAPI, Python, uv, pytest, Vercel
- Live: https://pddikti.fastapicloud.dev
- Source: https://github.com/ridwaanhall/api-pddikti

## About

### The problem

Researchers and developers who need Indonesian higher-education data have to work through a source that is not built for programmatic use, and that rejects plain HTTP clients coming from datacenter IP ranges.

### The approach

The API is a FastAPI service modular by domain: search, institutions, study programs, lecturers, students and statistics. Its upstream client sends a complete browser header set and uses curl_cffi to perform a real Chrome TLS handshake, which is what gets a datacenter deployment through. No upstream address is hardcoded: every URL is read from the environment, and anything left blank disables its feature instead of failing at boot.

- GET /api/ reports which upstreams a running deployment actually resolved, so a bad environment can be diagnosed without reading logs.
- When a request fails, the error body names the cause: which upstreams were tried, why, and which transport was used.
- Swagger UI, ReDoc, an OpenAPI schema and an interactive web playground.

### The result

Renamed from PDDikti Data Vault to Sivitas API and now at version 5.0.0, with a hosted demo at pddikti.fastapicloud.dev and a standard gateway at pddikti.rone.dev. The landing page reports the service's own status, so a degraded upstream is said plainly rather than discovered by a failing request. The most-starred of my data APIs after Rone Arena, with tests for the client, the app and the playground. It is independent and not affiliated with the data's publisher.

## Features

- **Edu Data**: Easy access to uni and program info.
- **Dev-Friendly**: Simple setup for coders.
- **Fresh Stats**: Always-updated PDDikti data.

## Tags

Api Kemdiktisaintek, Api Pddikti, Kemdiktisaintek, Kemendikbud, PDDIKTI

## Elsewhere

- This page for people: https://ridwaanhall.com/projects/pddikti-data-vault
- Index of every page as Markdown: [llms.txt](https://ridwaanhall.com/llms.txt)