Tigerbook

Search for your friends!

Questions, comments, concerns? Contact the current maintainer, nbs@

ATTENTION: As of September 6th, 2019, in order to remain compliant with recent University privacy restrictions, Tigerbook will no longer display student dorm building, room number, hometown, state, and country. Please direct questions about this policy change to the University's Office of the Registrar.

Advanced Search

You can specify which fields to search on with Advanced Search. The syntax is field:query, with the following fields supported:

name (e.g. name:"john doe")
netid (e.g. netid:jdoe)
alias (e.g. alias:jdoe)
college (e.g. college:butler)
program (e.g. program:bse)
major (e.g. major:"computer science")
year (e.g. year:2015)
mailbox (e.g. mailbox:1234)

About

What is this?

Tigerbook is a unified directory of Princeton Undergraduates, similar to the residential college facebook, that incorporates athletics data, university directory data, and student organization data with advanced search and visualization functions. Don't worry, this data is protected via Princeton’s CAS authentication.

Where did you get the data?

Residential College Facebook
GoPrincetonTigers
University Directory
ODUS Organization Page

How can I get this data?

Who can see this?

If you can see this page, it means you're securely logged in via Princeton CAS! That's the same login you use for Blackboard, so if you're logged in there, you've automatically been logged in here. Only Princeton University members can see this page.

Who made this and why?

Tigerbook was created by Hansen Qian ’16, Ivo Crnkovic-Rubsamen ’15 and Rohan Sharma ’14. They thought it would be a cool capstone project for COS 333: Advanced Programming Techniques.

Since they have graduated, several improvements have been done by Adam Libresco ’19 and Nick Schmeller '21—in particular, we now have an API available for all!

How can I contact you?

Use the big blue bar that says ‘Tell Us What You Think’ or alternatively, you can email us (HINT: use Tigerbook to find our email addresses).

Pictures by Zi Xiang Pan '16.

API Information

We now have a fully functioning API, allowing you to access all of the data here on tigerbook, available to all members of the Princeton community. You're free to use it however you'd like, as long as you follow the basic guidelines below.

Just as tigerbook (and the API) requires Princeton CAS authentication to access, so must any application you create that exposes any data obtained from this API.
Certain students request to the Princeton registrar (through the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) that their data is hidden from public view. tigerbook handles this on our end -- it's nothing you need to worry about -- but it does mean that any student may make their data unavailable at any time. As a result, if you create an outward-facting application that uses this API, it should avoid pre-storing data to the greatest extent possible and, if it must pre-load, it should periodically update its data stores (at least once a week).
Do not leak or sell any data from tigerbook. It is fine if you create something profitable that makes use of this API, but the data itself cannot be the product.
If you have any questions at all regarding these conditions, or you need an exception to one of these guidelines to be made in your case, do not hesitate to contact the current maintainer at nbs@princeton.edu. Misuse of this data could carry both University and legal consequences, so when in doubt, ask.

If you agree to all of the terms above, check out the API documentation here, and please send us an email (at nbs@princeton.edu) if you discover any bugs.