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# List students.

GET https://api.awardspring.com/api/v1/students

Returns one page at a time, covering every student account at the institution — both
registered and prospective. Search with `q`: it splits on spaces and matches each
term against first name, last name, or email. Filter with `student_id` to look a
student up by the number the institution assigned; numbers are not guaranteed unique, so
the match can return more than one student.

Reference: https://docs.awardspring.com/api-reference/students/list

## Authentication

- `X-Spring-API-Key` header (required) — Secret API key issued per institution. Send it on every request.

## Servers

- `https://api.awardspring.com` (UnitedStates, default)
- `https://api.awardspring.ca` (Canada)

## Request

### Query parameters

- `q` (string, optional) — Free-text search (`?q=`): splits on spaces and matches each term against first name, last name, or email, case-insensitively.
- `student_id` (string, optional) — Institution-assigned student number (`?student_id=`): exact, case-insensitive match. Student numbers are not guaranteed unique, so this can return more than one student.
- `limit` (integer, optional, default: 25) — Page size. Defaults to 25. Values outside 1–100 are clamped rather than rejected.
- `starting_after` (string, optional) — Opaque cursor. Pass the `next_cursor` from the previous page to page forward. Mutually exclusive with `ending_before`; if both are supplied, `starting_after` wins.
- `ending_before` (string, optional) — Opaque cursor. Pass the `previous_cursor` from the current page to page backward.

## Response

### 200

OK

- `object` (string, optional, nullable) — Discriminator constant. Always `"list"`, mirroring Stripe's list objects.
- `url` (string, optional, nullable) — The request path this collection was served from (e.g. `/api/v1/scholarships`).
- `has_more` (boolean, optional) — True when another page exists in the current paging direction.
- `next_cursor` (string, optional, nullable) — Opaque cursor for the next page (pass as `starting_after`). Null when there is none.
- `previous_cursor` (string, optional, nullable) — Opaque cursor for the previous page (pass as `ending_before`). Null when there is none.
- `data` (list of StudentV1, optional, nullable) — The page of items.

## Errors

### 400 Bad Request Error

Bad Request

- `error` (V1ErrorBody, optional) — Stripe-shaped error object for the `/api/v1/*` surface. Serialized snake\_case (via V1SnakeCaseNamingStrategy) and always nested under the `error` key of a V1ErrorEnvelope: `{ "error": { "type": "...", "code": "...", "message": "...", "param": null, "doc_url": null, "recovery": "..." } }`

### 403 Forbidden Error

Forbidden

- `error` (V1ErrorBody, optional) — Stripe-shaped error object for the `/api/v1/*` surface. Serialized snake\_case (via V1SnakeCaseNamingStrategy) and always nested under the `error` key of a V1ErrorEnvelope: `{ "error": { "type": "...", "code": "...", "message": "...", "param": null, "doc_url": null, "recovery": "..." } }`

### 429 Too Many Requests Error

Rate limit exceeded for this API key. Retry after the interval in the `Retry-After` header.

- `error` (V1ErrorBody, optional) — Stripe-shaped error object for the `/api/v1/*` surface. Serialized snake\_case (via V1SnakeCaseNamingStrategy) and always nested under the `error` key of a V1ErrorEnvelope: `{ "error": { "type": "...", "code": "...", "message": "...", "param": null, "doc_url": null, "recovery": "..." } }`

## Types

### StudentV1

One student account at the institution.

- `object` (string, optional, nullable) — Stripe-style resource discriminator. Stable, snake_case string naming the resource type. Serialized first so it reads as the leading field of every V1 resource body.
- `id` (integer, optional) — AwardSpring's identifier for the student's user record. Use it with `GET /api/v1/students/{id}` and as the `user_id` filter on the applications and awards lists.
- `first_name` (string, optional, nullable)
- `last_name` (string, optional, nullable)
- `email` (string, optional, nullable)
- `student_id` (string, optional, nullable) — The student number the institution assigned (for example an SIS or campus id). Not guaranteed unique — two student accounts can carry the same number — and may be empty when the institution has not recorded one.
- `enrollment_status` (string, optional, nullable) — The student's enrollment standing with the institution: `registered` (an active student account) or `prospective` (added ahead of enrollment, e.g. a recruit).
- `created_date` (integer, optional) — When the student account was created, as UTC epoch seconds.

### V1ErrorBody

Stripe-shaped error object for the `/api/v1/*` surface. Serialized snake\_case (via V1SnakeCaseNamingStrategy) and always nested under the `error` key of a V1ErrorEnvelope: `{ "error": { "type": "...", "code": "...", "message": "...", "param": null, "doc_url": null, "recovery": "..." } }`

- `type` (string, optional, nullable) — Coarse error category from V1ErrorType (e.g. `invalid_request_error`).
- `code` (string, optional, nullable) — Stable fine-grained machine code from ErrorCode (e.g. `donor_not_found`).
- `message` (string, optional, nullable) — Human-readable summary safe to surface to the caller.
- `param` (string, optional, nullable) — The request parameter the error relates to, when attributable to a single field; otherwise null.
- `doc_url` (string, optional, nullable) — Link to documentation for this error, when one exists; otherwise null.
- `recovery` (string, optional, nullable) — Plain-language guidance on how to recover from this error, suitable for showing to the person who triggered it. Not present on every error.
- `details` (any, optional) — Optional structured payload (e.g. a list of ValidationDetail for validation failures). Omitted from the wire when null so the canonical Stripe shape stays minimal.

## Examples

**Response**

```json
{
  "object": "string",
  "url": "string",
  "has_more": true,
  "next_cursor": "string",
  "previous_cursor": "string",
  "data": [
    {
      "object": "string",
      "id": 1,
      "first_name": "string",
      "last_name": "string",
      "email": "string",
      "student_id": "string",
      "enrollment_status": "string",
      "created_date": 1
    }
  ]
}
```

**SDK Code**

```python
import requests

url = "https://api.awardspring.com/api/v1/students"

headers = {"X-Spring-API-Key": "<apiKey>"}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

print(response.json())
```

```javascript
const url = 'https://api.awardspring.com/api/v1/students';
const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {'X-Spring-API-Key': '<apiKey>'}};

try {
  const response = await fetch(url, options);
  const data = await response.json();
  console.log(data);
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
}
```

```go
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.awardspring.com/api/v1/students"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("X-Spring-API-Key", "<apiKey>")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
```

```ruby
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.awardspring.com/api/v1/students")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["X-Spring-API-Key"] = '<apiKey>'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
```

```java
import com.mashape.unirest.http.HttpResponse;
import com.mashape.unirest.http.Unirest;

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://api.awardspring.com/api/v1/students")
  .header("X-Spring-API-Key", "<apiKey>")
  .asString();
```

```php
<?php
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('GET', 'https://api.awardspring.com/api/v1/students', [
  'headers' => [
    'X-Spring-API-Key' => '<apiKey>',
  ],
]);

echo $response->getBody();
```

```csharp
using RestSharp;

var client = new RestClient("https://api.awardspring.com/api/v1/students");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);
request.AddHeader("X-Spring-API-Key", "<apiKey>");
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
```

```swift
import Foundation

let headers = ["X-Spring-API-Key": "<apiKey>"]

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "https://api.awardspring.com/api/v1/students")! as URL,
                                        cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
                                    timeoutInterval: 10.0)
request.httpMethod = "GET"
request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers

let session = URLSession.shared
let dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
  if (error != nil) {
    print(error as Any)
  } else {
    let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse
    print(httpResponse)
  }
})

dataTask.resume()
```