--- title: "Connect Newsflash to BigDataCloud - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New corroborated event\" fires in Newsflash, your agent runs \"Validate Email Address\" in BigDataCloud." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/newsflash-to-bigdatacloud" --- # Connect Newsflash to BigDataCloud When **New corroborated event** fires in [Newsflash](https://apiant.ai/connections/newsflash), your agent runs **Validate Email Address** in [BigDataCloud](https://apiant.ai/connections/bigdatacloud). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Newsflash **2** triggers Newsflash **6** actions BigDataCloud **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 Newsflash and BigDataCloud 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 Newsflash can start in BigDataCloud - When **New corroborated event** in Newsflash then **Validate Email Address** in BigDataCloud - When **New event** in Newsflash then **Parse user agent** in BigDataCloud 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 Newsflash and BigDataCloud ## Triggers and actions 2 triggers · 13 actions - Trigger **New corroborated event** Fires each time an already-seen event gains another corroborating outlet, raising its corroboration/confidence score. Mirrors the event.corroborated message from the vendor's SSE stream. - Trigger **New event** Fires when a new deduped news event first appears in the corpus. Mirrors the event.new message from the vendor's SSE stream. - Action **Find Articles** Search raw per-outlet articles (same filter params as Find Events: q, semantic, source, category, from, to, min_sources, limit). - Action **Find Events** Search deduped news events by keyword, semantic query, source, category, time window, and min corroboration. - Action **Get Account Info** Get the connected account's email, tier, daily request limit, and usage so far today. - Action **Get Corpus Stats** Get corpus size/freshness stats for the news event graph. - Action **Get Event** Get one news event by id plus every corroborating article. - Action **List Sources** List every tracked news source: slug, name, category, lang, country, live article_count. - Action **Get country info** Returns details about a country from its ISO code, including its names, languages, currency, calling code, flag and UN / World Bank region classifications. - Action **Get IP Geolocation Data** Returns the estimated location of an IP address — country, region, city, postcode, coordinates and time zone — along with details of the network and carriers that serve it. - Action **Get Locality Info of Geo-Coordinates** Returns the country, state, city, locality, postcode and full administrative hierarchy for a latitude and longitude. - Action **Get time zone info** Returns the current details of a time zone, such as its UTC offset, daylight saving status and local time. Optionally converts a given moment to that zone's local time. - Action **Parse user agent** Parses a raw browser user-agent string into the browser, version, operating system and device type, and flags whether it looks like a bot or a mobile device. - Action **Validate Email Address** Checks an email address's syntax, whether its domain has a mail server, and whether it is a disposable or known-spammer address, and returns an overall validity verdict. - Action **Validate Phone Number** Checks whether a phone number is valid for a given country and returns it in standard international (E.164), international and national formats, along with its line type (mobile, landline, VoIP and so on), estimated location and country details. ## Each app on its own - [ **Newsflash** Deduplicated news events from 260+ sources with corroboration/confidence scores for AI agents](https://apiant.ai/connections/newsflash) - [ **BigDataCloud** BigDataCloud provides advanced IP geolocation and Reverse geocoding APIs, along with customer data APIs like...](https://apiant.ai/connections/bigdatacloud) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Newsflash - [ **Newsflash to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/newsflash-to-salesforce) - [ **Newsflash to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/newsflash-to-slack) - [ **Newsflash to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/newsflash-to-stripe) - [ **Newsflash to Shopify** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/newsflash-to-shopify) - [ **Newsflash to Pipedrive** Pipedrive is a sales CRM and pipeline management tool.](https://apiant.ai/connect/newsflash-to-pipedrive) - [ **Newsflash to Notion** A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team.](https://apiant.ai/connect/newsflash-to-notion) ## More into BigDataCloud - [ **HubSpot to BigDataCloud** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-bigdatacloud) - [ **Salesforce to BigDataCloud** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-bigdatacloud) - [ **Slack to BigDataCloud** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-bigdatacloud) - [ **Google Sheets to BigDataCloud** Google Sheets](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-bigdatacloud) - [ **Gmail to BigDataCloud** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-bigdatacloud) - [ **Google Calendar to BigDataCloud** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-bigdatacloud) Questions ## Newsflash and BigDataCloud, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Newsflash? Any of Newsflash's 2 triggers in the catalog, including New corroborated event and New event. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in BigDataCloud when something happens in Newsflash? Any of BigDataCloud's 7 actions, including Get country info, Get IP Geolocation Data, Get Locality Info of Geo-Coordinates and Get time zone info. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from BigDataCloud to Newsflash? BigDataCloud has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Newsflash. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads BigDataCloud's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Newsflash or BigDataCloud? 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 Newsflash and BigDataCloud 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.