--- title: "Connect Salesmsg and VideoDB - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"Contact Updated\" fires in Salesmsg, your agent runs \"Add Collection\" in VideoDB." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/salesmsg-to-videodb" --- # Connect Salesmsg and VideoDB When **Contact Updated** fires in [Salesmsg](https://apiant.ai/connections/salesmsg), your agent runs **Add Collection** in [VideoDB](https://apiant.ai/connections/videodb), or **New Video Uploaded & Indexed** in VideoDB to **Add Tag to Contact** in Salesmsg. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Salesmsg **5** triggers Salesmsg **9** 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 Salesmsg 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. 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[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What Salesmsg and VideoDB can do together ### From Salesmsg to VideoDB - When **Contact Updated** in Salesmsg then **Add Collection** in VideoDB - When **New Contact** in Salesmsg then **Add Overlay / Watermark** in VideoDB ### From VideoDB to Salesmsg - When **New Video Uploaded & Indexed** in VideoDB then **Add Tag to Contact** in Salesmsg - When **New Video Uploaded & Indexed** in VideoDB then **Create or Update Contact** in Salesmsg 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 Salesmsg and VideoDB ## Triggers and actions 6 triggers · 30 actions - Trigger **Contact Updated** Triggers when a contact in Salesmsg is created or updated. - Trigger **Missed Incoming Phone Call** Triggers when an incoming phone call to your Salesmsg number is missed. - Trigger **New Contact** Triggers when a new contact is created in Salesmsg. - Trigger **New Contact Opted-Out** Triggers when a contact in Salesmsg is opted out of text messaging. - Trigger **New Phone Call Received** Triggers when a new incoming phone call is logged in Salesmsg call history. - Action **Add Tag to Contact** Adds an existing tag to a Salesmsg contact. - Action **Create Note** Creates a note on a Salesmsg contact. - Action **Create or Update Contact** Creates a Salesmsg contact for a phone number, or returns the existing contact with that number, setting name and email. - Action **Find Contact** Finds contacts whose name, email or phone number matches a search term. - Action **Find Salesmsg Member** Searches the members of your Salesmsg organization by name or email and returns the matches. - Action **Opt-Out a Contact** Opts out a Salesmsg contact so they no longer receive messages from your local and toll-free numbers. Returns the updated contact. - Action **Phone Number Lookup (PhoneCheckr)** Looks up a phone number and returns its formatted form, country, carrier and line type. - Action **Remove Tag From Contact** Removes a tag from a Salesmsg contact. - Action **Send a Text Message (SMS / MMS)** Sends an SMS or MMS text message to a phone number from one of your Salesmsg inboxes. - 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&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 - [ **Salesmsg** Salesmsg is a two-way text messaging software to allows you to send and receive text messages online from...](https://apiant.ai/connections/salesmsg) - [ **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 Salesmsg - [ **Salesmsg to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesmsg-to-slack) - [ **Salesmsg to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesmsg-to-stripe) - [ **Salesmsg to Shopify** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesmsg-to-shopify) - [ **Salesmsg to Trello** Trello is a visual collaboration tool that organizes projects into boards, lists, and cards.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesmsg-to-trello) - [ **Salesmsg to Zoom** Zoom unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, group messaging, and a software-based...](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesmsg-to-zoom) - [ **Salesmsg to Twilio** Cloud communications platform for sending SMS/MMS messages, making and managing voice calls, and looking up...](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesmsg-to-twilio) ## 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](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 ## Salesmsg and VideoDB, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Salesmsg? Any of Salesmsg's 5 triggers in the catalog, including Contact Updated, New Contact, New Contact Opted-Out and New Phone Call Received. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in VideoDB when something happens in Salesmsg? 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 Salesmsg? Yes. When something happens in VideoDB, your agent can act in Salesmsg too. This page covers both directions: VideoDB's triggers and Salesmsg's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Salesmsg 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 Salesmsg 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.