China Footnotes

China Footnotes (chinafootnotes.com) is an independent English-language travel guide for foreign visitors to China, run by Capy Culture Tech Ltd (founder William Wang). It gathers opening hours, booking rules and traveller tips for sights across Shanghai, Beijing, Xi'an, Chengdu, Chongqing and Hangzhou from Chinese apps such as RedNote, WeChat and Dianping, and links every fact to its source with a check date. Its data is published as Markdown and llms.txt indexes, an RSS rule-change tracker, JSON endpoints under /api described by an OpenAPI document, and a no-sign-in MCP connector at https://chinafootnotes.com/mcp. Its own text and data are licensed CC BY 4.0.

China Footnotes publishes 8 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Booking API, Changes API, Cities API, and 5 more. Tagged areas include Company, Travel, China, Travel Guides, and Tourism.

The China Footnotes catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

China Footnotes’ developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, and 25 more developer resources.

🌐 Visit website 📡 Profile data on GitHub

29.8/100 thin Agent 29/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract 1 MCP Servers 3 Agent Skills

Company Travel China Travel Guides Tourism Open Data MCP Llms.txt

Kin Score

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Composite quality — 29.8/100 · thin

Contract Quality 11.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 4.4 / 17

Access Clarity 2.2 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 2.2 / 10

Discoverability 5.4 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.2 / 15

Agent readiness — 29/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Standards implemented 2

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (documented)

OpenAPI

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APIs 8

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

China Footnotes Booking API

The Booking API from China Footnotes — 1 operation(s) for booking.

China Footnotes Changes API

The Changes API from China Footnotes — 1 operation(s) for changes.

China Footnotes Cities API

The Cities API from China Footnotes — 2 operation(s) for cities.

China Footnotes Events API

The Events API from China Footnotes — 1 operation(s) for events.

China Footnotes Places API

The Places API from China Footnotes — 2 operation(s) for places.

China Footnotes Pretrip API

The Pretrip API from China Footnotes — 2 operation(s) for pretrip.

China Footnotes Status API

The Status API from China Footnotes — 1 operation(s) for status.

China Footnotes Updates API

The Updates API from China Footnotes — 1 operation(s) for updates.

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MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

China Footnotes MCP server

Official hosted, no-sign-in, read-only MCP connector for the China Footnotes travel guide. Tool list captured live via JSON-RPC initialize + tools/list against the endpoint the ...

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 3

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

explore-a-city

AGENT SKILL

plan-a-place-visit

AGENT SKILL

track-travel-rule-changes

AGENT SKILL

China Footnotes API pricing

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

China Footnotes Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

China Footnotes Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Privacy & Data 1

Its role, the data it processes, retention and transfers, quoted from its own privacy page.

China Footnotes

21 quoted statements, read from China Footnotes's own page on 2026-11-09.

PRIVACY

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Chinafootnotes Com Context

17 classes · 120 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.

China Footnotes API Rules

35 rules · 29 error-severity 3 warn-severity 3 info-severity

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

China Footnotes Openapi Overlay

7 actions · documentation · chinafootnotes-com-openapi.yml

DERIVED

JSON Schema 7

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

CityDetail

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CityList

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EventList

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlaceDetail

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlaceList

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Status

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UpdateList

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

China Footnotes Authentication

1 scheme

SECURITY

China Footnotes Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

China Footnotes Agentic Access

11 operations

11 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 8

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Spectral

JSONLD

Vocabulary

DataModel

Conventions

Lifecycle

ErrorCatalog

Conformance

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Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

ToolCrosswalk

ToolCrosswalk

IntegrationEdges

IntegrationEdges

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

License

License

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

About

About

Other 5

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Hosts

Vendors

RSSFeed

DataProcessing

Source (apis.yml)

aid: chinafootnotes-com
name: China Footnotes
description: China Footnotes (chinafootnotes.com) is an independent English-language travel guide for foreign visitors to
  China, run by Capy Culture Tech Ltd (founder William Wang). It gathers opening hours, booking rules and traveller tips for
  sights across Shanghai, Beijing, Xi'an, Chengdu, Chongqing and Hangzhou from Chinese apps such as RedNote, WeChat and Dianping,
  and links every fact to its source with a check date. Its data is published as Markdown and llms.txt indexes, an RSS rule-change
  tracker, JSON endpoints under /api described by an OpenAPI document, and a no-sign-in MCP connector at https://chinafootnotes.com/mcp.
  Its own text and data are licensed CC BY 4.0.
url: https://artifacts.apis.io/chinafootnotes-com/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:mcp-registry
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-11-03 (modular-v1; was harvest)
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  probe_state: covered
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-11-03'
modified: '2026-11-03'
tags:
- Company
- Travel
- China
- Travel Guides
- Tourism
- Open Data
- MCP
- Llms.txt
tags_raw:
- Company
- Travel
- China
- Travel Guides
- Tourism
- Open Data
- MCP
- LLMs.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
image: https://chinafootnotes.com/brand/og-default.png
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/chinafootnotes-com-agentic-access.yml
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/chinafootnotes-com-rules.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/chinafootnotes-com-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/chinafootnotes-com-vocabulary.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/chinafootnotes-com-data-model.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/chinafootnotes-com-conventions.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/chinafootnotes-com-authentication.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/chinafootnotes-com-lifecycle.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/chinafootnotes-com-problem-types.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/chinafootnotes-com-conformance.yml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/chinafootnotes-com-openapi-overlay.yaml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/chinafootnotes-com-llms.txt
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/chinafootnotes-com-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/chinafootnotes-com-mcp.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/chinafootnotes-com-hosts.yml
- type: IntegrationEdges
  url: integrations/chinafootnotes-com-integration-edges.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/chinafootnotes-com-vendors.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/chinafootnotes-com-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://chinafootnotes.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://chinafootnotes.com/connect
  name: Connect an AI assistant (MCP connector)
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: https://chinafootnotes.com/llms.txt
- type: Blog
  url: https://chinafootnotes.com/notes
- type: RSSFeed
  url: https://chinafootnotes.com/tools/rule-changes.xml
  name: China travel rule tracker
- type: About
  url: https://chinafootnotes.com/our-story
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://chinafootnotes.com/privacy
- type: License
  url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- type: DataProcessing
  url: privacy/chinafootnotes-com-privacy-policy.yml
apis:
- aid: chinafootnotes-com:chinafootnotes-com-booking-api
  name: China Footnotes Booking API
  description: The Booking API from China Footnotes — 1 operation(s) for booking.
  humanURL: https://chinafootnotes.com/connect
  tags:
  - Booking
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chinafootnotes-com-booking-api-openapi.yml
- aid: chinafootnotes-com:chinafootnotes-com-changes-api
  name: China Footnotes Changes API
  description: The Changes API from China Footnotes — 1 operation(s) for changes.
  humanURL: https://chinafootnotes.com/connect
  tags:
  - Changes
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chinafootnotes-com-changes-api-openapi.yml
- aid: chinafootnotes-com:chinafootnotes-com-cities-api
  name: China Footnotes Cities API
  description: The Cities API from China Footnotes — 2 operation(s) for cities.
  humanURL: https://chinafootnotes.com/connect
  tags:
  - Cities
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chinafootnotes-com-cities-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/chinafootnotes-com-city-detail-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/chinafootnotes-com-city-list-schema.json
- aid: chinafootnotes-com:chinafootnotes-com-events-api
  name: China Footnotes Events API
  description: The Events API from China Footnotes — 1 operation(s) for events.
  humanURL: https://chinafootnotes.com/connect
  tags:
  - Event
  tags_raw:
  - Events
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chinafootnotes-com-events-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/chinafootnotes-com-event-list-schema.json
- aid: chinafootnotes-com:chinafootnotes-com-places-api
  name: China Footnotes Places API
  description: The Places API from China Footnotes — 2 operation(s) for places.
  humanURL: https://chinafootnotes.com/connect
  tags:
  - Places
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chinafootnotes-com-places-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/chinafootnotes-com-place-detail-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/chinafootnotes-com-place-list-schema.json
- aid: chinafootnotes-com:chinafootnotes-com-pretrip-api
  name: China Footnotes Pretrip API
  description: The Pretrip API from China Footnotes — 2 operation(s) for pretrip.
  humanURL: https://chinafootnotes.com/connect
  tags:
  - Pretrip
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chinafootnotes-com-pretrip-api-openapi.yml
- aid: chinafootnotes-com:chinafootnotes-com-status-api
  name: China Footnotes Status API
  description: The Status API from China Footnotes — 1 operation(s) for status.
  humanURL: https://chinafootnotes.com/connect
  tags:
  - Status
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chinafootnotes-com-status-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/chinafootnotes-com-status-schema.json
- aid: chinafootnotes-com:chinafootnotes-com-updates-api
  name: China Footnotes Updates API
  description: The Updates API from China Footnotes — 1 operation(s) for updates.
  humanURL: https://chinafootnotes.com/connect
  tags:
  - Updates
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chinafootnotes-com-updates-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/chinafootnotes-com-update-list-schema.json
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: identity-verified
  detail: Name and legal entity (Capy Culture Tech Ltd) from schema.org Organization on /our-story and llms.txt; contact will@chinafootnotes.com
    on /privacy. No terms, pricing, signup, GitHub or support pages are published.
  evidence:
  - url: https://chinafootnotes.com/
    status: 200
  - url: https://chinafootnotes.com/our-story
    status: 200
  - url: https://chinafootnotes.com/llms.txt
    status: 200
  - url: https://chinafootnotes.com/connect
    status: 200
  - url: https://chinafootnotes.com/privacy
    status: 200
  - url: https://chinafootnotes.com/notes
    status: 200
  - url: https://chinafootnotes.com/tools/rule-changes.xml
    status: 200
  - url: https://chinafootnotes.com/api/openapi.json
    status: 200
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-11-03'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 38
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=anthropic,contract=anthropic,surfaces=anthropic,docs=anthropic,regulatory=anthropic

China Footnotes API — frequently asked questions

Does China Footnotes have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 8 APIs from China Footnotes, including China Footnotes Booking API, China Footnotes Changes API and China Footnotes Cities API, and 5 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the China Footnotes API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 8 OpenAPI specifications for China Footnotes, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the China Footnotes API?

China Footnotes uses bearer-token authentication (1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as China Footnotes Authentication.

Does China Footnotes have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for China Footnotes: Official hosted, no-sign-in, read-only MCP connector for the China Footnotes travel guide. Tool list captured live via JSON-RPC initialize + tools/list against the endpoint the provider documents on /

Is the China Footnotes API ready for AI agents?

China Footnotes has a Kin Score of 29.8 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 29.3 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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