Dictionaries

Chinese Text Project integrations

Connect Chinese Text Project to any other app, or use it from your AI client over MCP. Chinese Text Project is an open-access digital library of pre-modern Chinese texts, covering the classical canon and later works. Callers can retrieve the text of a chapter or passage by its URN, list the texts and sub-sections within a work, search the corpus for a phrase, look up a Chinese character's dictionary entry, and fetch parallel-passage matches between texts. No credentials required.

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What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it.

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What do you want to automate with Chinese Text Project?

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Connect your AI client

Give your AI client this address.

https://mcp.apiant.ai

One connection does both: ask your client to act in an app once, or have it build an automation that keeps running. Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser.

Set it up in your client
Claude Code

Run this in the directory you want to work in.

claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai

Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens.

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Claude, web and desktop

Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first.

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Cursor

Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser.

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Zed

Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server.

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Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app

Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in.

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Any other MCP client

Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection.

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Pair it

Connect Chinese Text Project with another app

What your agent can do with Chinese Text Project

Triggers and actions 5 actions

  • Action
    Find texts by title

    Searches the textual database and wiki for items matching part or all of a given title.

  • Action
    Get text info

    Returns metadata (title, author, dynasty, etc.) about a textual object identified by its CTP URN.

  • Action
    List dictionary headwords

    Returns the complete list of headwords for distinct word senses, names, and places in the CTP dictionary.

  • Action
    List dynasties

    Returns a list of identifiers, labels, and dates for Chinese dynasties used in the Chinese Text Project.

  • Action
    List texts

    Returns the complete list of top-level textual items (books) in the textual database and wiki.

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Chinese Text Project, answered

Is there a Chinese Text Project MCP server?

APIANT's MCP server at https://mcp.apiant.ai works with Chinese Text Project. Add that address to any AI client that takes a remote MCP server and sign in once in your browser. Your client can then run Chinese Text Project actions on demand, or have APIANT build, test and run automations that use Chinese Text Project. Nothing to install.

What can your agent do in Chinese Text Project?

Any of Chinese Text Project's 5 actions, including Find texts by title, Get text info, List dictionary headwords and List dynasties. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships.

Can I use Chinese Text Project directly from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor?

Yes. Connect your AI client to APIANT once and it works with Chinese Text Project two ways. Ask it to do something in Chinese Text Project once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running on its own. A one-off action uses your plan's tasks the same way an automation step does.

Do I need to write code against the Chinese Text Project API?

No. APIANT connects to the Chinese Text Project API for you. Describe what you want in plain language and your agent builds it on the Chinese Text Project triggers and actions in the catalog. If you need an endpoint that is not there yet, your agent reads the Chinese Text Project API documentation and adds it.

Which apps can Chinese Text Project connect to?

Any app in the catalog; the list on this page pairs Chinese Text Project with each of them. If the other app is missing, point your agent at its API documentation and it builds the connector.

What happens when something fails?

Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships.

Is there a free plan?

Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.