--- title: "Connect My Music Staff and Nytimes - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Email\" fires in My Music Staff, your agent runs \"Find articles by criteria\" in Nytimes." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/my-music-staff-to-nytimes" --- # Connect My Music Staff and Nytimes When **New Email** fires in [My Music Staff](https://apiant.ai/connections/my-music-staff), your agent runs **Find articles by criteria** in [Nytimes](https://apiant.ai/connections/nytimes), or **New top story** in Nytimes to **Find Attendance Records** in My Music Staff. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. My Music Staff **8** triggers My Music Staff **13** actions Nytimes **1** trigger Nytimes **5** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want My Music Staff and Nytimes 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 My Music Staff and Nytimes can do together ### From My Music Staff to Nytimes - When **New Email** in My Music Staff then **Find articles by criteria** in Nytimes - When **New Invoice** in My Music Staff then **List best sellers** in Nytimes ### From Nytimes to My Music Staff - When **New top story** in Nytimes then **Find Attendance Records** in My Music Staff - When **New top story** in Nytimes then **Add Calendar Event** in My Music Staff 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 My Music Staff and Nytimes ## Triggers and actions 9 triggers · 18 actions - Trigger **Attendance Taken** Triggers when attendance is taken or edited for a calendar event. - Trigger **New Email** Triggers when a new email message is created. - Trigger **New Invoice** Triggers when a new invoice is created (manually or by auto-invoicing). - Trigger **New SMS** Triggers when a new SMS message is created. - Trigger **New Student** Triggers when a new student is added to your My Music Staff account. - Trigger **Payment Added** Triggers when a payment is recorded in a Family Account. - Trigger **Student Added to Event** Triggers when a student is added to an event on the calendar. - Trigger **Student Updated** Triggers when a student's profile information is updated. - Action **Add Calendar Event** /calendar/event (body CalendarEventInputItem) — creates a calendar event with its student attendees, which creates Attendance records for each student. - Action **Add Payment** Records a payment in the Family Account - Action **Add Student** Adds a new student to your My Music Staff account. - Action **Find All Parents** Finds all parents based on Family ID or on search text. - Action **Find Attendance Records** Searches attendance records by date range, student, teacher, event, or status. Returns matching records with a total count. - Action **Find Event** Finds an event based on Event ID. - Action **Find Parent** Finds first Parent based on Family ID or on search text. - Action **Find Student** Finds students based on Student ID or on search text. - Action **List Lesson Notes** Returns a student's past lessons, newest first, with the attendance status and the lesson notes written for the student, the parent and the teacher. - Action **List Student Repertoire** Returns the pieces assigned to a student with each piece's progress status (Recommended, Requested, In Progress or Completed) and the dates it was started and completed. - Action **Search Repertoire** Searches your studio's repertoire library by title or composer, instrument and genre, and returns the matching pieces. - Action **Search Students** Searches your students by name, email, family or status and returns the matching students with their family details. - Action **Update Student** Updates a student's details, such as, status (Active, Trial, Lead, Waiting, Inactive), name, email, phone, birthday, etc. - Trigger **New top story** Triggers when a new article appears among The New York Times' current top stories for the section you choose. - Action **Find articles by criteria** Returns New York Times articles that match the search terms, filters and date range you specify. - Action **List archive articles** Returns every New York Times article published in a given month and year, from the archive going back to 1851. - Action **List best sellers** Returns the books on a New York Times Best Sellers list (for example Hardcover Fiction) for a given print date, or the latest list. - Action **List most popular articles** Returns the most popular New York Times articles over the last 1, 7 or 30 days, ranked by views, emails or shares. - Action **List top stories** Returns the articles currently featured as top stories in a chosen New York Times section, such as the home page, world, business or technology. ## Each app on its own - [ **My Music Staff** My Music Staff is a tool for private music teachers and schools, managing scheduling, payments, attendance...](https://apiant.ai/connections/my-music-staff) - [ **Nytimes** REST API for searching New York Times articles, top stories by section, and book review/bestseller data.](https://apiant.ai/connections/nytimes) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from My Music Staff - [ **My Music Staff to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/my-music-staff-to-salesforce) - [ **My Music Staff to ElevenLabs** ElevenLabs is an AI audio research and deployment company.](https://apiant.ai/connect/my-music-staff-to-elevenlabs) - [ **My Music Staff to Pixabay** Pixabay is a free image and video library. Search over 4 million royalty-free photos, illustrations, vector...](https://apiant.ai/connect/my-music-staff-to-pixabay) - [ **My Music Staff to Steady** Steady is a subscription platform for blogs, journalism, podcasts and other content creators.](https://apiant.ai/connect/my-music-staff-to-steady) - [ **My Music Staff to Who Hosts This** Discover the hosting provider for any web site](https://apiant.ai/connect/my-music-staff-to-who-hosts-this) - [ **My Music Staff to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/my-music-staff-to-slack) ## More into Nytimes - [ **HubSpot to Nytimes** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-nytimes) - [ **Google Sheets to Nytimes** Google Sheets](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-nytimes) - [ **Gmail to Nytimes** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-nytimes) - [ **Google Calendar to Nytimes** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-nytimes) - [ **Google Drive to Nytimes** Google Drive is a cloud storage solution for uploading, sharing, and collaborating on files across devices...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-drive-to-nytimes) - [ **Mailchimp to Nytimes** Mailchimp marketing automation and email platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/mailchimp-to-nytimes) Questions ## My Music Staff and Nytimes, answered ### ### What can start an automation from My Music Staff? Any of My Music Staff's 8 triggers in the catalog, including New Email, New Invoice, New SMS and New Student. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Nytimes when something happens in My Music Staff? Any of Nytimes's 5 actions, including Find articles by criteria, List best sellers, List most popular articles and List top stories. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Nytimes to My Music Staff? Yes. When something happens in Nytimes, your agent can act in My Music Staff too. This page covers both directions: Nytimes's triggers and My Music Staff's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for My Music Staff or Nytimes? 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 My Music Staff and Nytimes 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.