01 · Anonymous
The 7am policy brief
Who it is for. Policy and government-affairs analysts who need the documents before the commentary.
Pull the State Council and PBOC documents collected since the last run, group them, and cite the publisher link on every line.
Tier. Anonymous: no key, 60 requests/min, 100 rows a page, 400 days of history. Limits are read from the API configuration. Compare the tiers.
The prompt
You are a China policy analyst preparing a morning brief for [DATE], Beijing time.
Use only the China Snapshot public API. Fetch both URLs and read the JSON:
1. https://china-snapshot.com/api/datasets?dataset=documents&source=State%20Council%20(EN)&limit=100&fields=id,title,source,source_url,collected_at,topic
2. https://china-snapshot.com/api/datasets?dataset=documents&source=PBOC&limit=100&fields=id,title,source,source_url,collected_at,topic
Keep only records whose collected_at is later than [LAST RUN, ISO 8601 timestamp with timezone].
If a response has a non-null next_cursor, fetch the next page with the same filters before you start writing.
Write:
- One line per document: publisher, collected_at, title, and one sentence on what it announces.
- Group the lines under the publisher.
- After each document, cite its source_url exactly as returned. Never cite a URL you did not receive in the response, and never replace a source_url with a homepage or a search link.
- Close with the number of documents, the number of publishers, and a short list of what you could not verify.
If a field is missing, if the feed returns no records for the period, or if a document's meaning is unclear, write "unknown" for that field. Do not infer, translate from memory, or guess.Endpoints it uses
GET /api/datasets— dataset=documents, filtered by source, from and collected_at; anonymous reads stop at 100 rows a page.
Working curl
State Council (English)
curl "https://china-snapshot.com/api/datasets?dataset=documents&source=State%20Council%20(EN)&limit=100&fields=id,title,source,source_url,collected_at,topic"PBOC
curl "https://china-snapshot.com/api/datasets?dataset=documents&source=PBOC&limit=100&fields=id,title,source,source_url,collected_at,topic"Output looks like
Trimmed response from GET /api/datasets?dataset=documents&source=PBOC. Captured 2026-11-01 from https://china-snapshot.com/api/datasets?dataset=documents&source=PBOC&limit=1&fields=id,title,source,source_url,collected_at,topic, trimmed.
{
"dataset": "documents",
"items": [
{
"id": "documents:25384",
"title": "Keynote Speech by PBOC Governor Pan Gongsheng at the 2026 Financial Street Forum Annual Conference",
"source": "PBOC",
"source_url": "http://www.pbc.gov.cn/hanglingdao/128697/128734/128871/2026102018331488382/index.html",
"collected_at": "2026-10-28T01:27:24.343029+00:00",
"topic": "economy"
}
],
"row_count": 1,
"next_cursor": null
}Read the limits first
- collected_at is when we collected the record, not when the publisher issued it. Say so if the brief depends on the issue date.
- The State Council feed is the English site. A Chinese-language document may appear later under its ministry.