# Connect Buffer to Updown.io

When **New media post by you** fires in [Buffer](https://apiant.ai/connections/buffer), your agent runs **Create Check** in [Updown.io](https://apiant.ai/connections/updown-io). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running.

Buffer **2** triggers Buffer **7** actions Updown.io **10** actions

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

## What do you want Buffer and Updown.io to do together?

Give your AI client this address.

`https://mcp.apiant.ai`

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.

[Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp/claude-code)

### 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.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

### Cursor

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

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

### Zed

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

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

### 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.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

### 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.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

Example flows

## What Buffer can start in Updown.io

- When **New media post by you** in Buffer then **Create Check** in Updown.io
- When **New post by you** in Buffer then **Create Recipient** in Updown.io

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 Buffer and Updown.io

## Triggers and actions 2 triggers · 17 actions

- Trigger

**New media post by you**

Triggered every time you add a new post to Buffer or post now via Buffer with a media URL in the post.

- Trigger

**New post by you**

Triggered every time you add a new post to Buffer or post now via Buffer.

- Action

**Add tag**

Create a tag via Buffer GraphQL createTag mutation (experimental). See developers.buffer.com/examples/create-tag.html

- Action

**Delete tag**

Deletes a tag by ID. The tag is removed from every post, idea and content item carrying it.

- Action

**Get channel**

Get one channel by id via Buffer GraphQL channel query. See developers.buffer.com/examples/get-channel.html

- Action

**Get post**

Returns a single Buffer post by its id, including its text, status, schedule, channel, tags, media and metrics.

- Action

**List channels**

List channels of an organization via Buffer GraphQL channels query (supports filters). See developers.buffer.com/examples/get-channels.html

- Action

**List organizations**

List the account's organizations via Buffer GraphQL account.organizations query. See developers.buffer.com/examples/get-organizations.html

- Action

**Update tag**

Update a tag via Buffer GraphQL updateTag mutation. See developers.buffer.com/examples/update-tag.html

- Action

**Create Check**

Creates a new uptime check in updown.io for a URL you want monitored, and returns the created check including its token.

- Action

**Create Recipient**

Adds a new alert recipient (email, SMS, webhook, Slack-compatible or Microsoft Teams) to your updown.io account and returns the created recipient.

- Action

**Delete Check**

Deletes an uptime check from updown.io by its token.

- Action

**Delete Recipient**

Removes an alert recipient from your updown.io account by its id.

- Action

**Get Check**

Returns a single updown.io uptime check by its token, including its current status, uptime and settings.

- Action

**Get Check Metrics**

Returns performance metrics for an updown.io check over a period — uptime, apdex, request counts and average timings, optionally grouped by time or monitoring location.

- Action

**List Checks**

Returns every uptime check on your updown.io account with its current status and settings.

- Action

**List Downtimes**

Returns the recorded outages for an updown.io check, newest first, with the reason, start and end times and duration of each.

- Action

**List Recipients**

Returns every alert recipient on your updown.io account — email addresses, phone numbers, webhooks and chat integrations.

- Action

**Update Check**

Updates the settings of an existing updown.io uptime check — its URL, name, interval, threshold, alert muting and more. Anything left blank keeps its current value.

## Each app on its own

- [ **Buffer** Buffer lets you schedule and publish social media posts across multiple profiles.](https://apiant.ai/connections/buffer)
- [ **Updown.io** updown.io is an online service that checks your website's status by periodically sending an HTTP request.](https://apiant.ai/connections/updown-io)

Reviews

## What our customers say

## More from Buffer

- [ **Buffer to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/buffer-to-hubspot)
- [ **Buffer to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/buffer-to-salesforce)
- [ **Buffer to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/buffer-to-slack)
- [ **Buffer to Google Sheets** Google Sheets](https://apiant.ai/connect/buffer-to-google-sheets)
- [ **Buffer to Gmail** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/buffer-to-gmail)
- [ **Buffer to Google Calendar** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/buffer-to-google-calendar)

## More into Updown.io

- [ **HubSpot to Updown.io** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-updown-io)
- [ **Salesforce to Updown.io** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-updown-io)
- [ **Slack to Updown.io** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-updown-io)
- [ **Google Sheets to Updown.io** Google Sheets](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-updown-io)
- [ **Gmail to Updown.io** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-updown-io)
- [ **Google Calendar to Updown.io** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-updown-io)

Questions

## Buffer and Updown.io, answered

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### What can start an automation from Buffer?

Any of Buffer's 2 triggers in the catalog, including New media post by you and New post by you. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one.

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### What can your agent do in Updown.io when something happens in Buffer?

Any of Updown.io's 10 actions, including Create Check, Create Recipient, Update Check and Get Check. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships.

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### Can it also run from Updown.io to Buffer?

Updown.io has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Buffer. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Updown.io's API documentation and adds it.

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### Do I have to build a connector for Buffer or Updown.io?

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.

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### 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.

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### Is there a free plan?

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