--- title: "Connect Easy Digital Downloads to OpenAlex - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Customer\" fires in Easy Digital Downloads, your agent runs \"Classify text topics\" in OpenAlex." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/easy-digital-downloads-to-openalex" --- # Connect Easy Digital Downloads to OpenAlex When **New Customer** fires in [Easy Digital Downloads](https://apiant.ai/connections/easy-digital-downloads), your agent runs **Classify text topics** in [OpenAlex](https://apiant.ai/connections/openalex). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Easy Digital Downloads **2** triggers Easy Digital Downloads **6** actions OpenAlex **7** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Easy Digital Downloads and OpenAlex to do together? 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. [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 Easy Digital Downloads can start in OpenAlex - When **New Customer** in Easy Digital Downloads then **Classify text topics** in OpenAlex - When **New Sale** in Easy Digital Downloads then **Find entities by autocomplete** in OpenAlex 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 Easy Digital Downloads and OpenAlex ## Triggers and actions 2 triggers · 13 actions - Trigger **New Customer** Triggers when a new customer is added to your Easy Digital Downloads store. - Trigger **New Sale** Triggers when a new sale (payment) is recorded in your Easy Digital Downloads store. - Action **Find Customers** Finds customers in your Easy Digital Downloads store by email address or user ID, returning their details and purchase stats. - Action **Find Discount Codes** Finds discount codes in your Easy Digital Downloads store matching the code you enter. - Action **Get Product** Returns one product (download) from your store, including its info, pricing, files, notes and sales stats. - Action **Get Store Stats** Returns sales or earnings statistics for the store, optionally for today, yesterday, a date range, or a specific product. - Action **List Products** Returns the products (downloads) in your Easy Digital Downloads store, with their pricing, sales stats and files. - Action **List Sales** Returns recent sales from your store, optionally narrowed to one customer email, a sale ID, or a purchase key. - Action **Classify text topics** Classify arbitrary text (e.g. title/abstract) into OpenAlex topics ("Aboutness" endpoint). - Action **Find entities by autocomplete** Type-ahead search across a given entity type (works, authors, sources, institutions, etc), returning quick display hints. - Action **Get funder** Get a single funder by OpenAlex ID. - Action **Get publisher** Get a single publisher by OpenAlex ID. - Action **Get source** Get a single source by OpenAlex ID or external ID (ISSN etc). - Action **List publishers** List/search publishers with filter/search params. - Action **List topics** List/search research topics with filter/search params. ## Each app on its own - [ **Easy Digital Downloads** Easy Digital Downloads is a complete eCommerce solution for WordPress.](https://apiant.ai/connections/easy-digital-downloads) - [ **OpenAlex** OpenAlex is an open catalog of the global scholarly record.](https://apiant.ai/connections/openalex) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Easy Digital Downloads - [ **Easy Digital Downloads to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/easy-digital-downloads-to-hubspot) - [ **Easy Digital Downloads to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/easy-digital-downloads-to-salesforce) - [ **Easy Digital Downloads to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. 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Any of OpenAlex's 7 actions, including Classify text topics, Find entities by autocomplete, Get funder and Get publisher. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from OpenAlex to Easy Digital Downloads? OpenAlex has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Easy Digital Downloads. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads OpenAlex's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Easy Digital Downloads or OpenAlex? 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 Easy Digital Downloads and OpenAlex 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.