--- title: "Connect Paperless to Clickhouse - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"Document updated\" fires in Paperless, your agent runs \"Add API key\" in Clickhouse." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/paperless-to-clickhouse" --- # Connect Paperless to Clickhouse When **Document updated** fires in [Paperless](https://apiant.ai/connections/paperless), your agent runs **Add API key** in [Clickhouse](https://apiant.ai/connections/clickhouse). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Paperless **2** triggers Paperless **6** actions Clickhouse **20** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Paperless and Clickhouse 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 Paperless can start in Clickhouse - When **Document updated** in Paperless then **Add API key** in Clickhouse - When **New document created** in Paperless then **Update API key** in Clickhouse 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 Paperless and Clickhouse ## Triggers and actions 2 triggers · 26 actions - Trigger **Document updated** Fires when a document is updated (e.g. name changed). Backed by the document.updated webhook event. - Trigger **New document created** Fires when a new document is created. Backed by the document.created webhook event. - Action **Create Document (From Template)** Creates a new Paperless document from an existing template, optionally filling in recipients, form-field defaults and variables, and optionally sending it right away. - Action **Delete Document** Permanently delete a document by ID. - Action **Get Document** Retrieves a single Paperless document by its id. - Action **Get Template** Retrieves a single Paperless template by its id. - Action **List Templates** List all templates the API key's integration has access to, used to pick a template_id before creating a document. - Action **Update Document** Updates an existing Paperless document: rename it, set its recipients, form field defaults and variables, or send it by setting its state to dispatched. - Action **Add API key** Create a new organization API key. - Action **Delete API key** Delete an organization API key. - Action **Delete invitation** Delete an organization invitation. - Action **Delete query API endpoint** Delete a Query API endpoint. - Action **Get API key** Get key details. - Action **Get organization** Get organization details. - Action **Get service** Get service details. - Action **Get usage cost** Get organization usage costs. - Action **List activities** List of organization activities (audit log). - Action **List API keys** Get list of all organization API keys. - Action **List backups** List of service backups. - Action **List invitations** List all organization invitations. - Action **List members** List organization members. - Action **List organizations** Get list of available organizations. - Action **List query API endpoints** List Query API endpoints for a service. - Action **List services** List of organization services. - Action **Update API key** Update key details. - Action **Update organization** Update organization details. - Action **Update service** Update service basic details. - Action **Update service state** Start/stop a service by updating its state. ## Each app on its own - [ **Paperless** Paperless lets you create, sign, and manage intelligent documents on a single platform.](https://apiant.ai/connections/paperless) - [ **Clickhouse** Column-oriented database for real-time analytical SQL queries at petabyte scale.](https://apiant.ai/connections/clickhouse) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Paperless - [ **Paperless to Google Maps Platform** APIs and SDKs for maps, geocoding, routing, places search, and location-based data in apps.](https://apiant.ai/connect/paperless-to-google-maps-platform) - [ **Paperless to Metropolitan Museum of Art** The Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection API exposes the museum's open-access catalogue of more than four...](https://apiant.ai/connect/paperless-to-metropolitan-museum-of-art) - [ **Paperless to ZUGFeRD & XRechnung by InvoiceXML** ZUGFeRD & XRechnung by InvoiceXML is a German e-invoice compliance service for creating, validating...](https://apiant.ai/connect/paperless-to-zugferd-xrechnung-by-invoicexml) - [ **Paperless to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/paperless-to-salesforce) - [ **Paperless to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/paperless-to-slack) - [ **Paperless to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/paperless-to-stripe) ## More into Clickhouse - [ **Grist to Clickhouse** Grist combines the flexibility of a spreadsheet with the robustness of a database to organize your data...](https://apiant.ai/connect/grist-to-clickhouse) - [ **HubSpot to Clickhouse** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-clickhouse) - [ **Salesforce to Clickhouse** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-clickhouse) - [ **Slack to Clickhouse** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-clickhouse) - [ **Google Sheets to Clickhouse** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-clickhouse) - [ **Gmail to Clickhouse** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-clickhouse) Questions ## Paperless and Clickhouse, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Paperless? Any of Paperless's 2 triggers in the catalog, including Document updated and New document created. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Clickhouse when something happens in Paperless? Any of Clickhouse's 20 actions, including Update API key, Update organization, Update service and Update service state. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Clickhouse to Paperless? Clickhouse has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Paperless. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Clickhouse's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Paperless or Clickhouse? 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 Paperless and Clickhouse 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.