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title: "Connect Easy Digital Downloads and The Old Reader - APIANT.ai"
description: "When \"New Customer\" fires in Easy Digital Downloads, your agent runs \"Update item\" in The Old Reader."
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# Connect Easy Digital Downloads and The Old Reader

When **New Customer** fires in [Easy Digital Downloads](https://apiant.ai/connections/easy-digital-downloads), your agent runs **Update item** in [The Old Reader](https://apiant.ai/connections/the-old-reader), or **New item** in The Old Reader to **Find Customers** in Easy Digital Downloads. 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 The Old Reader **1** trigger The Old Reader **12** 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 The Old Reader 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 and The Old Reader can do together

### From Easy Digital Downloads to The Old Reader

- When **New Customer** in Easy Digital Downloads then **Update item** in The Old Reader
- When **New Sale** in Easy Digital Downloads then **Mark all items as read** in The Old Reader

### From The Old Reader to Easy Digital Downloads

- When **New item** in The Old Reader then **Find Customers** in Easy Digital Downloads
- When **New item** in The Old Reader then **Find Discount Codes** in Easy Digital Downloads

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 The Old Reader

## Triggers and actions 3 triggers · 18 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.

- Trigger

**New item**

Triggers when a new item arrives in your reading list, a folder or a subscription.

- Action

**Add subscription**

Subscribes the account to a feed or website by its URL and returns the new subscription's stream id.

- Action

**Delete folder**

Deletes a folder in The Old Reader and moves its subscriptions to the default folder.

- Action

**Delete subscription**

Unsubscribes from a feed in The Old Reader.

- Action

**Get items**

Returns the full contents (title, body, author, feed, read/starred state) of one or more items by their ids.

- Action

**Get unread counts**

Returns unread item counts for the whole reading list and for each folder, subscription and friend.

- Action

**List folders**

Returns the list of folders in your The Old Reader account.

- Action

**List items**

Returns the items (articles) in a stream such as your reading list, starred items, a folder or a subscription.

- Action

**List subscriptions**

Returns every feed subscription in your The Old Reader account, with each feed's title, folders, site URL and icon.

- Action

**Mark all items as read**

Marks all items in a stream (everything, a folder, a subscription or a friend's shares) as read, optionally only those older than a given time.

- Action

**Update folder**

Renames a folder in The Old Reader.

- Action

**Update item**

Updates an item's state: marks it read or unread, starred, liked or shared.

- Action

**Update subscription**

Renames a subscription or moves it between folders.

## 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)
- [ **The Old Reader** RSS reader](https://apiant.ai/connections/the-old-reader)

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)
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## More into The Old Reader

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

## Easy Digital Downloads and The Old Reader, answered

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### What can start an automation from Easy Digital Downloads?

Any of Easy Digital Downloads's 2 triggers in the catalog, including New Customer and New Sale. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one.

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### What can your agent do in The Old Reader when something happens in Easy Digital Downloads?

Any of The Old Reader's 12 actions, including Update folder, Update item, Update subscription and Add subscription. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships.

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### Can it also run from The Old Reader to Easy Digital Downloads?

Yes. When something happens in The Old Reader, your agent can act in Easy Digital Downloads too. This page covers both directions: The Old Reader's triggers and Easy Digital Downloads's actions are listed here as well.

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### Do I have to build a connector for Easy Digital Downloads or The Old Reader?

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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### Can my AI client use Easy Digital Downloads and The Old Reader 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.

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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.
