--- title: "Connect al-Qur'an and VideoDB - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Hijri Month\" fires in al-Qur'an, your agent runs \"Add Collection\" in VideoDB." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/al-qur-an-to-videodb" --- # Connect al-Qur'an and VideoDB When **New Hijri Month** fires in [al-Qur'an](https://apiant.ai/connections/al-qur-an), your agent runs **Add Collection** in [VideoDB](https://apiant.ai/connections/videodb), or **New Video Uploaded & Indexed** in VideoDB to **Convert Hijri Date** in al-Qur'an. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. al-Qur'an **5** triggers al-Qur'an **13** actions VideoDB **1** trigger VideoDB **21** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want al-Qur'an and VideoDB to do together? 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[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What al-Qur'an and VideoDB can do together ### From al-Qur'an to VideoDB - When **New Hijri Month** in al-Qur'an then **Add Collection** in VideoDB - When **Daily Name of Allah** in al-Qur'an then **Add Overlay / Watermark** in VideoDB ### From VideoDB to al-Qur'an - When **New Video Uploaded & Indexed** in VideoDB then **Convert Hijri Date** in al-Qur'an - When **New Video Uploaded & Indexed** in VideoDB then **Get Ayah** in al-Qur'an Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships. Everything your agent can do with al-Qur'an and VideoDB ## Triggers and actions 6 triggers · 34 actions - Trigger **Daily Name of Allah** Triggers once a day with one of the 99 Names of Allah, cycling through all of them in order, with its Arabic text, transliteration and English meaning. - Trigger **Daily Prayer Times** Triggers once a day with that day's prayer times (Fajr, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib, Isha and more) for the chosen city. - Trigger **New Hijri Month** Triggers when a new Hijri (Islamic) month begins, returning today's Hijri date with the new month's name and number. - Trigger **Next Prayer Reminder** Triggers when the next upcoming prayer for your location changes, returning the prayer's name and time. - Trigger **Upcoming Islamic Holiday** Triggers when the next upcoming Islamic holiday changes, returning its Hijri and Gregorian dates. - Action **Convert Hijri Date** Converts a Hijri (Islamic) date to its Gregorian equivalent, returning both dates with day, month and year details. - Action **Get Ayah** Returns a single ayah (verse) of the Qur'an in the edition you choose, with its surah, juz and page details. - Action **Get Ayah Audio URL** Returns the audio recitation URL (MP3 on the Islamic Network CDN) for one ayah of the Qur'an in the chosen reciter's audio edition. - Action **Get Ayah Image URL** Returns the CDN image URL of a single Quran ayah, in normal or high resolution, after confirming the image exists. - Action **Get Islamic Holidays** Returns the Islamic holidays for a given Hijri year, with each holiday's Hijri and Gregorian dates. - Action **Get Name(s) of Allah** Returns one or more of the 99 Names of Allah (Asma al-Husna) with Arabic text, transliteration and English meaning. - Action **Get Prayer Calendar** Returns prayer times for every day of a Gregorian month for a city. - Action **Get Prayer Times** Returns the prayer times for a city on a given date, along with the Hijri date and calculation details. - Action **Get Qibla Direction** Returns the Qibla direction (compass bearing toward the Kaaba in Makkah) for a given latitude and longitude. - Action **Get Reading Portion** Returns the ayahs of one Qur'an reading portion — a juz, manzil, ruku, page or hizb quarter — in the edition you choose. - Action **Get Surah** Returns a surah of the Qur'an with its details and all of its ayahs in the edition you choose. - Action **Get Surah Audio URL** Returns the streaming MP3 URL for a full surah recited by the chosen reciter, and confirms the file exists on the Islamic Network CDN. - Action **Search Quran** Searches the Qur'an for ayahs containing a word, in all surahs or one surah, in a chosen language or edition. - Trigger **New Video Uploaded & Indexed** Triggered when a new video is uploaded to a VideoDB collection. - Action **Add Collection** Creates a new VideoDB collection to organize videos and scope search. - Action **Add Overlay / Watermark** Places an image (logo or watermark) over a VideoDB video at a chosen time and position, and returns a stream URL for the result. - Action **Ask Video (Q&A)** Get the Q&A for a video. - Action **Auto-Chapter Video** Splits a video into scenes (chapters) using shot detection or fixed time segments. The job runs in the background; the result is available at the returned output URL. - Action **Auto-Dub Video** Starts an AI dubbing job that replaces a video's soundtrack with a version in another language, preserving the speaker's voice characteristics. - Action **Check Job Status** Checks the progress of a long-running VideoDB job (dubbing, generation, transcoding, indexing) and returns its status and, once finished, its result. - Action **Create Highlight Clip** Starts an AI clip-generation job on an indexed video from a natural-language prompt describing the moments to include. - Action **Delete Video** Permanently delete a video and all its metadata, transcripts and indexes from VideoDB. - Action **Find Video Moment** Searches one indexed video for the moments matching a spoken-word or visual query, returning each match's start and end time, text and score. - Action **Generate Image** Generates an image from a text prompt using VideoDB's AI generation. Generation runs asynchronously; the result returns a job id and an address to check for the finished image. - Action **Generate Subtitles** Generates subtitles for a video using VideoDB service. - Action **Generate Video** Starts an AI video generation job from a text prompt and saves the result to a collection. - Action **Generate Voice-Over** Converts text into AI-generated speech (a voice-over audio asset) in a VideoDB collection. Generation runs as a job; check its result with Check Job Status or a callback URL. - Action **Get Collection** Retrieve the details of one VideoDB collection by its id. - Action **Get Meeting Assets** Get a meeting recording's status and recorded video URL. - Action **Get Transcript** Get the transcript of a video. - Action **Get Video Metadata** Get metadata for a video. - Action **List Collections** Retrieve all collections in your VideoDB account, including the default collection. - Action **List Videos** Lists the videos in a VideoDB collection. - Action **Summarize Video** Asks VideoDB's AI to summarize a video using your own instructions. Summarization usually runs as a background job: use Check Job Status with the returned job id to fetch the finished summary. - Action **Upload & Index Video** Uploads a video from a URL into a VideoDB collection, waits for the upload to finish, then starts indexing it (spoken words by default) and returns the indexing job. ## Each app on its own - [ **al-Qur'an** The Al Quran Cloud is a simple web app that allows you to read and hear the Quran being recited by Juz...](https://apiant.ai/connections/al-qur-an) - [ **VideoDB** VideoDB is an AI engine for video workflows—search scenes, cut clips, dub, subtitles, and apply GenAI effects.](https://apiant.ai/connections/videodb) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from al-Qur'an - [ **al-Qur'an to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/al-qur-an-to-hubspot) - [ **al-Qur'an to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/al-qur-an-to-salesforce) - [ **al-Qur'an to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. 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Any of VideoDB's 21 actions, including Create Highlight Clip, Upload & Index Video, Add Collection and Add Overlay / Watermark. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from VideoDB to al-Qur'an? Yes. When something happens in VideoDB, your agent can act in al-Qur'an too. This page covers both directions: VideoDB's triggers and al-Qur'an's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for al-Qur'an or VideoDB? No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. ### ### Can my AI client use al-Qur'an and VideoDB without building an automation? Yes. With your AI client connected to APIANT, ask it to do something in either app 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. One connection covers both. ### ### 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.