--- title: "Connect Instapaper and MySQL - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New bookmark\" fires in Instapaper, your agent runs \"Add Row\" in MySQL, or \"New or Updated Row\" in MySQL to \"Add Page\" in Instapaper." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/instapaper-to-mysql" --- # Connect Instapaper and MySQL When **New bookmark** fires in [Instapaper](https://apiant.ai/connections/instapaper), your agent runs **Add Row** in [MySQL](https://apiant.ai/connections/mysql), or **New or Updated Row** in MySQL to **Add Page** in Instapaper. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Instapaper **1** trigger Instapaper **14** actions MySQL **4** triggers MySQL **6** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Instapaper and MySQL 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 Instapaper and MySQL can do together ### From Instapaper to MySQL - When **New bookmark** in Instapaper then **Add Row** in MySQL - When **New bookmark** in Instapaper then **Update Row** in MySQL ### From MySQL to Instapaper - When **New or Updated Row** in MySQL then **Add Page** in Instapaper - When **New Row** in MySQL then **Add folder** in Instapaper 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 Instapaper and MySQL ## Triggers and actions 5 triggers · 20 actions - Trigger **New bookmark** Triggers when a new bookmark is saved to your Instapaper account. - Action **Add folder** Creates a new folder in the user's Instapaper account for organizing bookmarks. - Action **Add highlight** Creates a highlight on an Instapaper bookmark, optionally with a note attached, and returns the new highlight. - Action **Add Page** Saves a web page (or private content) to the user's Instapaper library and returns the saved bookmark. - Action **Add tag** Creates a new tag in the Instapaper account that bookmarks can be labelled with. - Action **Add tags to bookmark** Adds tags to and/or removes tags from an Instapaper bookmark, and returns the bookmark's tags afterwards. Tag names that don't exist yet are created. - Action **Delete bookmark** Permanently deletes a bookmark from the user's Instapaper library. This is not the same as archiving it. - Action **Delete folder** Deletes a folder from the user's Instapaper account. The bookmarks in it are kept and move back to the home list. - Action **List bookmarks** Returns the bookmarks in a user's Instapaper home, archive, liked list, a folder or a tag, optionally only those changed since a given time. - Action **List folders** Returns the folders in the connected Instapaper account. - Action **List highlights** Returns every highlight (and its note) on one Instapaper bookmark. - Action **List tags** Returns the tags in the connected Instapaper account. - Action **Update bookmark** Updates a bookmark's title, description or reading progress. Fields left blank stay unchanged. - Action **Update bookmark folder** Moves a bookmark to the archive, back to the home list, or into one of the user's folders, and returns the moved bookmark. - Action **Update tag** Renames an existing tag in the connected Instapaper account. - Trigger **New or Updated Row** Triggers when a new row is added or modified. - Trigger **New or Updated Row (Custom Query)** Fires for each new or changed row returned by a SELECT statement you write against the connected MySQL database. - Trigger **New Row** Triggers when you add a new row. - Trigger **New Table** Fires when a new table appears in the connected MySQL database. - Action **Add Row** Adds a new row. - Action **Delete Row** Delete the rows in a table whose chosen column equals a value. - Action **Find Row** Finds a row in a table via a lookup column. - Action **Find Rows via Custom Query** Run an author-written SELECT against the connected MySQL database and return every row it produced. Mirrors PostgreSQL 715ae2ac, SQL Server 8e0bbb5d and Oracle 2c308e4d; MySQL placeholder style is ?. - Action **Find Row via Custom Query** Runs a SELECT statement you write against the connected MySQL database and returns the first row it matches. - Action **Update Row** Updates an existing row. ## Each app on its own - [ **Instapaper** Instapaper saves web pages to read later on your iPhone, iPad, Android, computer, or Kindle.](https://apiant.ai/connections/instapaper) - [ **MySQL** Connect directly to a MySQL database and run SQL statements from your automations.](https://apiant.ai/connections/mysql) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Instapaper - [ **Instapaper to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/instapaper-to-salesforce) - [ **Instapaper to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. 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Any of Instapaper's 1 trigger in the catalog, including New bookmark. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in MySQL when something happens in Instapaper? Any of MySQL's 6 actions, including Update Row, Add Row, Find Row and Find Rows via Custom Query. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from MySQL to Instapaper? Yes. When something happens in MySQL, your agent can act in Instapaper too. This page covers both directions: MySQL's triggers and Instapaper's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Instapaper or MySQL? 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 Instapaper and MySQL 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.