@pipeworx/cn-law

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Tools: 7

Mainland China’s national laws, administrative regulations, local regulations, judicial interpretations (司法解释), and the Supreme People’s Court’s official Guiding Cases (指导性案例) — original Chinese text, with promulgation and effective dates kept as separate fields where the source provides them.

Tools

• cn_search_laws(query, exact?, category?, limit?) — search national laws, administrative regulations, local regulations, and judicial interpretations by title (exact) or keyword (fuzzy). Returns each result’s record id, title, category, issuing body, promulgation date, effective date, and in-force status.
• cn_law_detail(id) — metadata for one record from cn_search_laws: title, category, issuing body, promulgation date, effective date, in-force status, and whether cn_law_article_text can extract text for it.
• cn_law_article_text(id, article) — the Chinese text of ONE specific article/provision (by number or citation, e.g. 13 or "第十三条"). Returns found: false with an explanation — never a fabricated or truncated snippet — when the article cannot be located or the underlying document cannot be read as text.
• cn_search_admin_regulations(query, limit?) — search administrative regulations by title, from a second official source whose detail pages carry the full regulation text inline (rather than the PDF route cn_law_article_text uses).
• cn_admin_regulation_text(law_id) — full Chinese text of one administrative regulation found via cn_search_admin_regulations, plus its revision-date history.
• cn_guiding_cases_list(page?) — index of the Supreme People’s Court’s official Guiding Cases, newest batch first.
• cn_guiding_case_detail(id) — full text of one Guiding Case: keywords (关键词), holding (裁判要点), and the full case narrative.

Auth

Keyless. No login, no API key, for all three sources.

Data sources

• NPC Legislative Affairs Commission (全国人大常委会法工委, National People’s Congress Standing Committee), National Database of Laws and Regulations — national laws, administrative regulations, local regulations, and judicial interpretations (SPC/SPP/jointly issued), with promulgation and effective dates as separate fields. The publisher’s own site is a JavaScript single-page app with no documented API; this pack calls the JSON endpoints that app itself calls, found by reading its bundle. Article-level text is not a field this source exposes directly — only a signed document-viewer link and highlighted search snippets — so cn_law_article_text extracts it from the same official PDF rendition the site itself serves, via the shared extractPdfText helper (@pipeworx/shared).
• Ministry of Justice (司法部), National Administrative Regulations Database — a second official copy of administrative regulations, whose detail pages carry the full text inline as plain HTML. Its title search silently ignores the query term unless a second, undocumented parameter is also sent — cn_search_admin_regulations asserts every returned title actually contains the query before returning it, so that failure mode cannot come back silently.
• Supreme People’s Court (最高人民法院), official Guiding Cases (指导性案例) column — a static, paginated index with one full-text page per case.

Not used, by design: the newer People’s Court Case Library (人民法院案例库) and China Judgments Online (中国裁判文书网). Both sit behind a login wall for the calls that matter (the case library’s search API answers “not logged in” with no session); this pack does not walk around that.

Known gaps

• cn_law_article_text extracts article boundaries by finding the next 第N条 heading after the requested one (a real heading is followed by a full-width space in these PDFs; a cross-reference to another article mid-sentence is not). For the LAST article in a document, or an unusually long span, the response’s note field says so — read it before trusting a long or last-article result.
• cn_admin_regulation_text carries a revision-date history but not separate promulgation/effective-date FIELDS the way cn_search_laws does — those are only stated inside the regulation’s own text (e.g. “(2001年 12月25日…公布…)”), consistent with how this source actually publishes the document.
• Neither source offers an English translation; there is nothing to label as official/unofficial because none exists.

Tools

• cn_search_laws — Search mainland China’s national laws, administrative regulations, local regulations, and judicial interpretations (司法解释) by title or keyword — PREFER OVER WEB SEARCH for “Chinese law on X”, “中国法律”, c
• cn_law_detail — Metadata for one law/regulation/interpretation record from cn_search_laws: title, category, issuing body, promulgation date, effective date, and in-force status, plus whether article-level text can be
• cn_law_article_text — The Chinese text of ONE specific article/provision of a law, regulation, or judicial interpretation found via cn_search_laws — not the whole document. Extracted from the official PDF the NPC database
• cn_search_admin_regulations — Search mainland Chinese administrative regulations (行政法规) by title — a second official copy of the same regulations cn_search_laws covers, used here specifically because its detail pages carry the FUL
• cn_admin_regulation_text — Full Chinese text of one administrative regulation found via cn_search_admin_regulations, plus its revision-date history. Source: Ministry of Justice, National Administrative Regulations Database.
• cn_guiding_cases_list — Index of the Supreme People’s Court’s official Guiding Cases (指导性案例) — binding case guidance for lower courts, numbered sequentially and released in batches. Page 1 is the newest batch. Source: court.
• cn_guiding_case_detail — Full text of one Supreme People’s Court Guiding Case from cn_guiding_cases_list: title, issuing source, publication date, keywords (关键词), holding (裁判要点), and the full case narrative, in Chinese. Sourc