--- title: "Connect Ontraport to GeoNames - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Contact\" fires in Ontraport, your agent runs \"Geocode address\" in GeoNames." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/ontraport-to-geonames" --- # Connect Ontraport to GeoNames When **New Contact** fires in [Ontraport](https://apiant.ai/connections/ontraport), your agent runs **Geocode address** in [GeoNames](https://apiant.ai/connections/geonames). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Ontraport **5** triggers Ontraport **14** actions GeoNames **42** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Ontraport and GeoNames 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) Ontraport holds the contact, task and transaction records; GeoNames holds the place data behind them. Joining the two lets a postal code on an Ontraport contact turn into a city, coordinates, timezone or country details, and lets those details be written back onto the record so your team sees them in the CRM. Example flows ## What Ontraport can start in GeoNames - When **New Contact** in Ontraport then **Geocode address** in GeoNames - When **New or Updated Contact** in Ontraport then **Get Country Info** in GeoNames 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 Ontraport and GeoNames ## Triggers and actions 5 triggers · 56 actions - Trigger **New Contact** Polling trigger: fires for each newly created contact, newest first (sorted by creation date). - Trigger **New or Updated Contact** Polling trigger: fires when a contact is created or modified, sorted by date last modified. - Trigger **New Task** Polling trigger: fires for each newly created task (objectID 1), newest first. - Trigger **New Transaction** Polling trigger: fires for each newly created transaction (objectID 46), newest first. - Trigger **Two-way sync new or updated contact** A trigger for two-way syncing new and updated contacts, with enhanced on-the-fly mapping. Polls Ontraport Contacts sorted by date-last-modified descending; fires for each new or updated contact. - Action **Create Object** Create a record of any Ontraport object type. Provide objectID and a JSON of fields. Note: Ontraport DROP (dropdown) custom fields fail OPEN — sending a value that is not one of the field's defined options returns HTTP 200 and silently discards it, leaving the field unset. Verify a dropdown value landed by reading the record back. - Action **Create or Update Contact** Create a new contact, or merge into an existing one matched by email (Ontraport saveorupdate). Note: Ontraport DROP (dropdown) custom fields fail OPEN — sending a value that is not one of the field's defined options returns HTTP 200 and silently discards it, leaving the prior value in place. Verify a dropdown value landed by reading the record back. - Action **Create Task** Create a Task object (objectID 1) in Ontraport. - Action **Delete Contact** Delete a contact by its Ontraport ID. - Action **Delete Object** Delete a record of any object type by objectID and id. - Action **Find Contact by Email** Find a contact by exact email match. Returns the first matching record. - Action **Find contact by field (Go only has Find Contact by Email — covers email lookup only, not arbitrary field)** Returns the details for a contact if the specified field matches the specified value. Throws an error if zero or multiple match. - Action **Get Contact** Retrieve a single contact by its Ontraport ID. - Action **Get Object** Retrieve a single record of any object type by objectID and id. - Action **List Contacts** List contacts with optional search, range, and sort. - Action **List Objects** List records of any object type with optional search and range. - Action **Remove Tag from Contact** Remove a tag from one or more contacts. - Action **Tag Contact** Add a tag to one or more contacts. - Action **Update Object** Update a record of any Ontraport object type by ID. Note: Ontraport DROP (dropdown) custom fields fail OPEN — sending a value that is not one of the field's defined options returns HTTP 200 and silently discards it, leaving the prior value in place. Verify a dropdown value landed by reading the record back. - Action **Address reverse geocoding** reverse geocode coordinates to a street address - Action **Contains** get places contained within a place - Action **Country code from coordinates** get the country code for coordinates - Action **Country subdivision** get the admin subdivision for coordinates - Action **Earthquakes** get recent earthquakes within a bounding box - Action **Elevation ASTER GDEM** get ASTER GDEM elevation for coordinates - Action **Elevation GTOPO30** get GTOPO30 elevation for coordinates - Action **Elevation SRTM1** get 30m SRTM1 elevation for coordinates - Action **Extended find nearby** rich reverse geocoding to multiple entity types - Action **Find Nearby Place Name** Return the closest populated place to a latitude/longitude coordinate, with distance. - Action **Find nearby POIs (OSM)** find OSM points of interest near coordinates - Action **Find Nearby Postal Codes** Return postal codes near a latitude/longitude coordinate within an optional radius. - Action **Find nearby streets (OSM)** find OSM streets near coordinates - Action **Find nearby streets (US)** find US streets near coordinates - Action **Find nearby toponym** find the nearest toponym to coordinates - Action **Find nearby Wikipedia** find Wikipedia articles near coordinates - Action **Find nearest address (US)** find the nearest US street address to coordinates - Action **Find nearest intersection (OSM)** find the nearest OSM intersection to coordinates - Action **Find nearest intersection (US)** find the nearest US street intersection to coordinates - Action **Geocode address** forward geocode a street address to coordinates - Action **Get Children** Return the administrative children (e.g. states of a country, counties of a state) for a GeoNames feature ID. - Action **Get Country Info** Return country information (capital, population, area, bounding box, currency, languages) for one or all countries. - Action **Get Elevation (SRTM3)** Return the SRTM3 elevation in meters for a latitude/longitude coordinate. - Action **Get Geo Details** Return full record details (name, coordinates, population, admin hierarchy, timezone) for a GeoNames feature ID. - Action **Get place by ID** get a place (toponym) by geonameId - Action **Lookup Location From Postal Code** Look up location information (place name, latitude, longitude, admin areas) for a given postal code and country. - Action **Lookup Timezone From Geo** Return the timezone, current local time, and GMT/DST offsets for a latitude/longitude coordinate. - Action **Nearby weather** get the nearest weather station observation to coordinates - Action **Neighbourhood** get the US neighbourhood for coordinates - Action **Neighbours** get neighbouring countries/places of a place - Action **Ocean** get the ocean/sea name for coordinates - Action **Place hierarchy** get the administrative hierarchy for a place - Action **Postal code country info** list countries with postal code coverage - Action **RSS to GeoRSS** geo-tag an RSS feed into GeoRSS - Action **Search Places** Full-text search of the GeoNames database for places by name or query string. - Action **Search Postal Codes** Search postal codes by code or place name, returning matching postal-code records with coordinates. - Action **Siblings** get sibling places of a place - Action **Street name lookup** autocomplete street names - Action **Weather by ICAO** get weather observation by airport ICAO code - Action **Weather in bounding box** get weather stations within a bounding box - Action **Wikipedia bounding box** get Wikipedia articles within a bounding box - Action **Wikipedia search** full-text search of geo-tagged Wikipedia articles ## Each app on its own - [ **Ontraport** Ontraport is an all-in-one CRM, marketing automation, and e-commerce platform.](https://apiant.ai/connections/ontraport) - [ **GeoNames** GeoNames geographical database: search places, postal code lookup, timezone, country info, nearby places...](https://apiant.ai/connections/geonames) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Ontraport - [ **Ontraport to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/ontraport-to-salesforce) - [ **Ontraport to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/ontraport-to-slack) - [ **Ontraport to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/ontraport-to-stripe) - [ **Ontraport to Shopify** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/ontraport-to-shopify) - [ **Ontraport to QuickBooks Online** QuickBooks Online accounting — manage customers, invoices, bills, payments, vendors, expenses, and more via...](https://apiant.ai/connect/ontraport-to-quickbooks-online) - [ **Ontraport to Pipedrive** Pipedrive is a sales CRM and pipeline management tool.](https://apiant.ai/connect/ontraport-to-pipedrive) ## More into GeoNames - [ **HubSpot to GeoNames** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-geonames) - [ **Salesforce to GeoNames** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-geonames) - [ **Slack to GeoNames** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-geonames) - [ **Mailchimp to GeoNames** Mailchimp marketing automation and email platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/mailchimp-to-geonames) - [ **Stripe to GeoNames** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/stripe-to-geonames) - [ **Shopify to GeoNames** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/shopify-to-geonames) Questions ## Ontraport and GeoNames, answered ### ### Can a GeoNames lookup start an automation? No, GeoNames offers actions only, so every scenario starts from an Ontraport trigger such as a new contact, a new task or a new transaction. GeoNames then does the lookup, like a postal code lookup or a timezone lookup for coordinates. ### ### Can the place details come back into the contact record? Yes, after a GeoNames lookup the agent can write the result onto the Ontraport record with Update Object, or add a tag with Tag Contact. The agent tests every scenario, including contacts where the postal code is missing and the lookup returns nothing. ### ### What can start an automation from Ontraport? Any of Ontraport's 5 triggers in the catalog, including New Contact, New or Updated Contact, New Task and New Transaction. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in GeoNames when something happens in Ontraport? Any of GeoNames's 42 actions, including Geocode address, Get Country Info, Lookup Location From Postal Code and Lookup Timezone From Geo. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from GeoNames to Ontraport? GeoNames has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Ontraport. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads GeoNames's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Ontraport or GeoNames? 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 Ontraport and GeoNames 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.