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title: "Connect Openlayer and VideoDB - APIANT.ai"
description: "When \"New Project\" fires in Openlayer, your agent runs \"Add Collection\" in VideoDB."
canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/openlayer-to-videodb"
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# Connect Openlayer and VideoDB

When **New Project** fires in [Openlayer](https://apiant.ai/connections/openlayer), your agent runs **Add Collection** in [VideoDB](https://apiant.ai/connections/videodb), or **New Video Uploaded & Indexed** in VideoDB to **Publish Record** in Openlayer. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running.

Openlayer **2** triggers Openlayer **22** actions VideoDB **1** trigger VideoDB **21** actions

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

## What do you want Openlayer and VideoDB 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 Openlayer and VideoDB can do together

### From Openlayer to VideoDB

- When **New Project** in Openlayer then **Add Collection** in VideoDB
- When **New Test Result** in Openlayer then **Add Overlay / Watermark** in VideoDB

### From VideoDB to Openlayer

- When **New Video Uploaded & Indexed** in VideoDB then **Publish Record** in Openlayer
- When **New Video Uploaded & Indexed** in VideoDB then **Create Project** in Openlayer

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 Openlayer and VideoDB

## Triggers and actions 3 triggers · 43 actions

- Trigger

**New Project**

Triggers when a new project is created in your Openlayer workspace.

- Trigger

**New Test Result**

Triggers when a new test result is available for a data source. Useful for alerting on passing or failing model tests.

- Action

**Create Data Source**

Creates a new data source in a project for streaming production data to Openlayer.

- Action

**Create Project**

Creates a new AI or ML project in your Openlayer workspace.

- Action

**Create Test**

Creates a data quality test in a project. Checks for duplicate rows, null values, or row counts.

- Action

**Delete Inference Pipeline**

Delete an inference pipeline by its ID.

- Action

**Delete Project**

Delete a project by its ID.

- Action

**Delete Test**

Delete a test by its ID.

- Action

**Evaluate Test**

Evaluates a test for a specific time range. Use after publishing records to get immediate results.

- Action

**Find Data Source**

Finds a data source (inference pipeline) by name in a project.

- Action

**Find Project**

Finds a project by name in your Openlayer workspace.

- Action

**Find Test Result**

Finds test results for a data source, including whether each test passed or failed. Filter by outcome or test type to branch an automation on the result.

- Action

**Get Inference Pipeline**

Retrieve the details around a specific inference pipeline.

- Action

**Get Project**

Retrieves one project by its id. Openlayer has no single-project endpoint, so this reads the workspace's first 100 projects and returns the one matching the id.

- Action

**Get Test**

Retrieve a test by ID.

- Action

**Get Test Result**

Retrieves one test result by its id. Openlayer has no single-result endpoint, so this reads the data source's 100 most recent results and returns the matching one.

- Action

**List Inference Pipelines**

List the authenticated user's inference pipelines under a project.

- Action

**List Projects**

Lists the projects in your Openlayer workspace, optionally narrowed to one kind of project. Returns up to 100 projects.

- Action

**List Test Results**

List all results for a test/goal under an inference pipeline.

- Action

**List Tests**

Lists the tests in a project, optionally narrowed by kind, archived state or monitoring mode. Returns up to 100 tests.

- Action

**Publish Record**

Publishes an LLM inference record to a data source for monitoring. Streams the model input, output, and metadata to Openlayer.

- Action

**Update Inference Pipeline**

Update an inference pipeline.

- Action

**Update Project**

Update a project.

- Action

**Update Test**

Update a test (partial updates allowed).

- Trigger

**New Video Uploaded & Indexed**

Triggered when a new video is uploaded to a VideoDB collection.

- Action

**Add Collection**

Creates a new VideoDB collection to organize videos and scope search.

- Action

**Add Overlay / Watermark**

Places an image (logo or watermark) over a VideoDB video at a chosen time and position, and returns a stream URL for the result.

- Action

**Ask Video (Q&A)**

Get the Q&amp;A for a video.

- Action

**Auto-Chapter Video**

Splits a video into scenes (chapters) using shot detection or fixed time segments. The job runs in the background; the result is available at the returned output URL.

- Action

**Auto-Dub Video**

Starts an AI dubbing job that replaces a video's soundtrack with a version in another language, preserving the speaker's voice characteristics.

- Action

**Check Job Status**

Checks the progress of a long-running VideoDB job (dubbing, generation, transcoding, indexing) and returns its status and, once finished, its result.

- Action

**Create Highlight Clip**

Starts an AI clip-generation job on an indexed video from a natural-language prompt describing the moments to include.

- Action

**Delete Video**

Permanently delete a video and all its metadata, transcripts and indexes from VideoDB.

- Action

**Find Video Moment**

Searches one indexed video for the moments matching a spoken-word or visual query, returning each match's start and end time, text and score.

- Action

**Generate Image**

Generates an image from a text prompt using VideoDB's AI generation. Generation runs asynchronously; the result returns a job id and an address to check for the finished image.

- Action

**Generate Subtitles**

Generates subtitles for a video using VideoDB service.

- Action

**Generate Video**

Starts an AI video generation job from a text prompt and saves the result to a collection.

- Action

**Generate Voice-Over**

Converts text into AI-generated speech (a voice-over audio asset) in a VideoDB collection. Generation runs as a job; check its result with Check Job Status or a callback URL.

- Action

**Get Collection**

Retrieve the details of one VideoDB collection by its id.

- Action

**Get Meeting Assets**

Get a meeting recording's status and recorded video URL.

- Action

**Get Transcript**

Get the transcript of a video.

- Action

**Get Video Metadata**

Get metadata for a video.

- Action

**List Collections**

Retrieve all collections in your VideoDB account, including the default collection.

- Action

**List Videos**

Lists the videos in a VideoDB collection.

- Action

**Summarize Video**

Asks VideoDB's AI to summarize a video using your own instructions. Summarization usually runs as a background job: use Check Job Status with the returned job id to fetch the finished summary.

- Action

**Upload & Index Video**

Uploads a video from a URL into a VideoDB collection, waits for the upload to finish, then starts indexing it (spoken words by default) and returns the indexing job.

## Each app on its own

- [ **Openlayer** Openlayer is a platform for monitoring, evaluating, and testing AI and ML models in production.](https://apiant.ai/connections/openlayer)
- [ **VideoDB** VideoDB is an AI engine for video workflows—search scenes, cut clips, dub, subtitles, and apply GenAI effects.](https://apiant.ai/connections/videodb)

Reviews

## What our customers say

## More from Openlayer

- [ **Openlayer to Astroworld** Astroworld serves reference data about the game Minecraft.](https://apiant.ai/connect/openlayer-to-astroworld)
- [ **Openlayer to Byabbe** Seach histories from wikipedia for a particular day](https://apiant.ai/connect/openlayer-to-byabbe)
- [ **Openlayer to Cliniko** Cliniko is a practice management platform — manage patients, appointments, invoices, contacts, and...](https://apiant.ai/connect/openlayer-to-cliniko)
- [ **Openlayer to Enrich CRM** Enrich CRM helps you perform real-time contact and company enrichment.](https://apiant.ai/connect/openlayer-to-enrich-crm)
- [ **Openlayer to Evervault** Evervault provides secure encryption infrastructure for developers.](https://apiant.ai/connect/openlayer-to-evervault)
- [ **Openlayer to Postman** Postman is a platform for building and testing APIs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/openlayer-to-postman)

## More into VideoDB

- [ **HubSpot to VideoDB** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-videodb)
- [ **Salesforce to VideoDB** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-videodb)
- [ **Slack to VideoDB** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-videodb)
- [ **Google Sheets to VideoDB** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-videodb)
- [ **Gmail to VideoDB** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-videodb)
- [ **Google Calendar to VideoDB** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-videodb)

Questions

## Openlayer and VideoDB, answered

###

### What can start an automation from Openlayer?

Any of Openlayer's 2 triggers in the catalog, including New Project and New Test Result. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one.

###

### What can your agent do in VideoDB when something happens in Openlayer?

Any of VideoDB's 21 actions, including Create Highlight Clip, Upload & Index Video, Add Collection and Add Overlay / Watermark. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships.

###

### Can it also run from VideoDB to Openlayer?

Yes. When something happens in VideoDB, your agent can act in Openlayer too. This page covers both directions: VideoDB's triggers and Openlayer's actions are listed here as well.

###

### Do I have to build a connector for Openlayer or VideoDB?

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 Openlayer and VideoDB 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.
