--- title: "Connect Easy Project to BBC iPlayer Business Layer - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Project\" fires in Easy Project, your agent runs \"Get channel schedule\" in BBC iPlayer Business Layer." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/easy-project-to-bbc-iplayer-business-layer" --- # Connect Easy Project to BBC iPlayer Business Layer When **New Project** fires in [Easy Project](https://apiant.ai/connections/easy-project), your agent runs **Get channel schedule** in [BBC iPlayer Business Layer](https://apiant.ai/connections/bbc-iplayer-business-layer). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Easy Project **3** triggers Easy Project **11** actions BBC iPlayer Business Layer **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 Project and BBC iPlayer Business Layer 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. 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[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What Easy Project can start in BBC iPlayer Business Layer - When **New Project** in Easy Project then **Get channel schedule** in BBC iPlayer Business Layer - When **New Task** in Easy Project then **List channels** in BBC iPlayer Business Layer 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 Project and BBC iPlayer Business Layer ## Triggers and actions 3 triggers · 18 actions - Trigger **New Project** Triggers when a new project is created in Easy Project. - Trigger **New Task** Triggers when a new task is created in Easy Project. - Trigger **Task Comments Web Hook Trigger** Triggers when a comment is added to a task in Easy Project. - Action **Create Planned Project Expense** Creates a planned (expected) expense in a project's budget in Easy Project, with its amount, currency, VAT and planned date. - Action **Create Project** Creates a new project in Easy Project with its name, dates, manager, parent project, tags and custom field values. - Action **Create Project Expense** Creates an actual (other) expense on a project's budget in Easy Project, with amounts, VAT, currency, date, tags and custom fields. - Action **Create Project Income** Creates an actual income (other revenue) on an Easy Project project's budget, with amounts, VAT, currency, date and optional milestone, tags and custom fields. - Action **Create Task** Creates a task (issue) in an Easy Project project, with its tracker, status, priority, assignee, dates and custom field values. - Action **Create Time Entry** Logs spent time in Easy Project against a project, and optionally a task, for a user on a given date. - Action **Find Project** Returns the projects whose details match the search text you supply. - Action **Get Planned Project Expense** Returns a single planned project expense by its ID, including its amounts, currency, project, milestone, custom fields and tags. - Action **Get Project Expense** Returns a single project expense by its ID, including its project, milestone, amounts, VAT, currency, date, custom fields and tags. - Action **Get Project Income** Returns a single project income (other revenue) record by its ID, including amounts, currency, project, custom fields and tags. - Action **Update Task** Updates an existing task in Easy Project, changing only the fields you fill in, and can add a comment to it. - Action **Get channel schedule** Returns the broadcast schedule of a BBC iPlayer channel for a given day. - Action **Get episode** Returns the BBC iPlayer episode for a given episode identifier. - Action **Get programme** Returns a BBC iPlayer programme (brand or series) by its PID, including its initial child episodes. - Action **List categories** Returns the list of all categories in BBC TV & iPlayer. - Action **List channels** Returns all BBC TV and iPlayer channels, optionally for a specific region. - Action **List episodes of a programme** Returns the child episodes of a BBC iPlayer programme. - Action **List programmes by category** Returns the iPlayer programmes (brands and series) in a given category. ## Each app on its own - [ **Easy Project** Easy Project is a professional project management software for you, your team and the whole company.](https://apiant.ai/connections/easy-project) - [ **BBC iPlayer Business Layer** The definitive iPlayer API.](https://apiant.ai/connections/bbc-iplayer-business-layer) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Easy Project - [ **Easy Project to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/easy-project-to-hubspot) - [ **Easy Project to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/easy-project-to-salesforce) - [ **Easy Project to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. 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Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in BBC iPlayer Business Layer when something happens in Easy Project? Any of BBC iPlayer Business Layer's 7 actions, including Get channel schedule, Get episode, Get programme and List categories. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from BBC iPlayer Business Layer to Easy Project? BBC iPlayer Business Layer has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Easy Project. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads BBC iPlayer Business Layer's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Easy Project or BBC iPlayer Business Layer? 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 Project and BBC iPlayer Business Layer 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.