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

# Connect Seafile and VideoDB

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

Seafile **2** triggers Seafile **16** 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 Seafile 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 Seafile and VideoDB can do together

### From Seafile to VideoDB

- When **New File** in Seafile then **Add Collection** in VideoDB
- When **New or Updated File** in Seafile then **Add Overlay / Watermark** in VideoDB

### From VideoDB to Seafile

- When **New Video Uploaded & Indexed** in VideoDB then **Create Text File** in Seafile
- When **New Video Uploaded & Indexed** in VideoDB then **Upload File** in Seafile

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 Seafile and VideoDB

## Triggers and actions 3 triggers · 37 actions

- Trigger

**New File**

Triggers when a new file is found in a library. A new file with the same file name (and path) will not trigger.

- Trigger

**New or Updated File**

Fires when a file is added to, or its content changes in, a Seafile library folder.

- Action

**Add library**

Create a new library.

- Action

**Copy file**

Copy a file to another folder/library.

- Action

**Create Folder**

Creates a new folder at the path you specify.

- Action

**Create Text File**

Creates a new text file from plain text content you specify.

- Action

**Delete File**

Deletes a file you specify.

- Action

**Delete Folder**

Deletes a folder in a library and move it to trash.

- Action

**Delete library**

Delete a library by repo id.

- Action

**Download File**

Downloads a file from Seafile.

- Action

**Find Files and Folders (With Line Item Support)**

Returns the files and folders in a given folder.

- Action

**Get account info**

Get current account info (name, usage, quota).

- Action

**Get file info**

Get file details (size, mtime, id).

- Action

**List directory items**

List files and folders in a directory.

- Action

**List libraries**

List libraries (repos) the user can access.

- Action

**Move File**

Moves a file to another library or folder.

- Action

**Rename File**

Renames a file.

- Action

**Upload File**

Uploads a file to Seafile.

- 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

- [ **Seafile** Seafile is an open-source cloud storage platform that enables secure file sharing, and collaborative...](https://apiant.ai/connections/seafile)
- [ **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 Seafile

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- [ **Seafile to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/seafile-to-stripe)
- [ **Seafile to Shopify** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/seafile-to-shopify)

## 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

## Seafile and VideoDB, answered

###

### What can start an automation from Seafile?

Any of Seafile's 2 triggers in the catalog, including New File and New or Updated File. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one.

###

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

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 Seafile?

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

###

### Do I have to build a connector for Seafile 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 Seafile 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.
