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title: "Connect Grain to Nextdns - APIANT.ai"
description: "When \"New Playlist\" fires in Grain, your agent runs \"Add allowlist domain\" in Nextdns."
canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/grain-to-nextdns"
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# Connect Grain to Nextdns

When **New Playlist** fires in [Grain](https://apiant.ai/connections/grain), your agent runs **Add allowlist domain** in [Nextdns](https://apiant.ai/connections/nextdns). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running.

Grain **4** triggers Grain **22** actions Nextdns **13** actions

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

## What do you want Grain and Nextdns 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 Grain can start in Nextdns

- When **New Playlist** in Grain then **Add allowlist domain** in Nextdns
- When **New Upload** in Grain then **Add denylist domain** in Nextdns

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 Grain and Nextdns

## Triggers and actions 4 triggers · 35 actions

- Trigger

**New Playlist**

Triggers when a new playlist is created in Grain.

- Trigger

**New Upload**

Triggers when a new upload is created in Grain.

- Trigger

**Recording Added**

Triggers when a new recording appears in your Grain account.

- Trigger

**Story Added**

Triggers when a new story is created in Grain.

- Action

**Add Recording to Playlist**

Adds a recording to a Grain playlist.

- Action

**Add Tag to Recording**

Adds a tag to a Grain recording.

- Action

**Create Clip**

Creates a clip from a time range of a Grain recording, snapped to whole transcript sentences.

- Action

**Create Playlist**

Creates a Grain playlist.

- Action

**Delete Clip**

Deletes a Grain clip.

- Action

**Delete Playlist**

Deletes a Grain playlist.

- Action

**Get Playlist**

Returns one Grain playlist.

- Action

**Get Recording**

Returns one Grain recording with its participants and calendar details.

- Action

**Get Transcript**

Returns the transcript of a Grain recording as speaker-labelled sections with timestamps.

- Action

**List Meeting Types**

Returns the meeting types defined in your Grain workspace.

- Action

**List Playlists**

Returns your Grain playlists, newest first, one page at a time.

- Action

**List Recordings**

Returns your Grain recordings with their participants, optionally filtered by title or start time.

- Action

**List Stories**

Returns your Grain stories, one page at a time.

- Action

**List Teams**

Returns the teams in your Grain workspace.

- Action

**List Users**

Returns the users in your Grain workspace, each with ID, name and email.

- Action

**Remove Recording from Playlist**

Removes a recording from a Grain playlist.

- Action

**Remove Tag from Recording**

Removes a tag from a Grain recording.

- Action

**Share Recording with Team**

Shares a Grain recording with a team.

- Action

**Share Recording with User**

Shares a Grain recording with a user in your workspace.

- Action

**Update Clip**

Updates a Grain clip's title or time range.

- Action

**Update Playlist**

Updates a Grain playlist's title or link access.

- Action

**Update Recording**

Renames a Grain recording.

- Action

**Add allowlist domain**

Add a domain to a profile's allowlist.

- Action

**Add denylist domain**

Adds a domain to a NextDNS profile's Denylist so DNS queries for it are blocked.

- Action

**Add profile**

Creates a new NextDNS profile, optionally with its security, privacy, parental control, denylist, allowlist and settings configuration.

- Action

**Clear logs**

Clears all DNS query logs for a NextDNS profile.

- Action

**Delete allowlist domain**

Remove a domain from a profile's allowlist.

- Action

**Delete denylist domain**

Removes a domain from a NextDNS profile's denylist.

- Action

**Delete profile**

Deletes a NextDNS profile by its ID.

- Action

**Get profile**

Retrieve a NextDNS profile by id.

- Action

**List allowlist domains**

List domains on a profile's allowlist.

- Action

**List denylist domains**

Lists the domains on a NextDNS profile's denylist.

- Action

**List profiles**

Lists the profiles in the connected NextDNS account.

- Action

**Update performance settings**

Update a profile's performance settings (ECS, cache boost, CNAME flattening).

- Action

**Update profile**

Updates an existing NextDNS profile by ID. Only the sections you fill in are changed.

## Each app on its own

- [ **Grain** Grain joins your calls to take notes, document the next steps, and file automated meeting notes in platforms...](https://apiant.ai/connections/grain)
- [ **Nextdns** Cloud-based DNS filtering service for blocking malware, ads, and trackers, with an API to manage profiles...](https://apiant.ai/connections/nextdns)

Reviews

## What our customers say

## More from Grain

- [ **Grain to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/grain-to-hubspot)
- [ **Grain to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/grain-to-salesforce)
- [ **Grain to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/grain-to-slack)
- [ **Grain to Mailchimp** Mailchimp marketing automation and email platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/grain-to-mailchimp)
- [ **Grain to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/grain-to-stripe)
- [ **Grain to Shopify** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/grain-to-shopify)

## More into Nextdns

- [ **HubSpot to Nextdns** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-nextdns)
- [ **Pushbullet to Nextdns** Pushbullet lets you send and receive pushes (notes, links, files) across your devices and to people, and...](https://apiant.ai/connect/pushbullet-to-nextdns)
- [ **Telegram to Nextdns** Telegram is a cloud-based instant messaging and voice over IP service developed by Telegram Messenger LLP.](https://apiant.ai/connect/telegram-to-nextdns)
- [ **Salesforce to Nextdns** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-nextdns)
- [ **Slack to Nextdns** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-nextdns)
- [ **Google Sheets to Nextdns** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-nextdns)

Questions

## Grain and Nextdns, answered

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### What can start an automation from Grain?

Any of Grain's 4 triggers in the catalog, including New Playlist, New Upload, Recording Added and Story Added. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one.

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### What can your agent do in Nextdns when something happens in Grain?

Any of Nextdns's 13 actions, including Update performance settings, Update profile, Add allowlist domain and Add denylist domain. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships.

###

### Can it also run from Nextdns to Grain?

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

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### Do I have to build a connector for Grain or Nextdns?

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 Grain and Nextdns 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.
