# China Footnotes

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/chinafootnotes-com/  
**Website:** https://chinafootnotes.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

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.

## Kin Score — 29.8 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-11-13 under rubric 0.28.0.

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 63.3 |
| Contract Quality | 51.8 |
| Contract Governance | 22.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 25.6 |
| Access Clarity | 12.8 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 14.7 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 29.3 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | documented |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | derived |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |
| Pagination Ratio | no |
| Operation Distinctiveness | distinct |
| MCP Tool Quality | na |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## APIs (8)

- **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.

## MCP servers (1)

- **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 ...

## Agentic access (1)

- **China Footnotes Agentic Access** — 11 operations

## Security (2)

- **China Footnotes Authentication** — 1 scheme
- **China Footnotes Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **China Footnotes Plans Pricing**

## Tags

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

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/chinafootnotes-com/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.