--- title: "Connect Shade to PDF Generator API - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"Asset Updated\" fires in Shade, your agent runs \"Generate document\" in PDF Generator API." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/shade-to-pdf-generator-api" --- # Connect Shade to PDF Generator API When **Asset Updated** fires in [Shade](https://apiant.ai/connections/shade), your agent runs **Generate document** in [PDF Generator API](https://apiant.ai/connections/pdf-generator-api). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Shade **7** triggers Shade **7** actions PDF Generator API **16** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Shade and PDF Generator API 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 Shade can start in PDF Generator API - When **Asset Updated** in Shade then **Generate document** in PDF Generator API - When **New Asset** in Shade then **Add form** in PDF Generator API 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 Shade and PDF Generator API ## Triggers and actions 7 triggers ยท 23 actions - Trigger **Asset Updated** Triggers when an asset in the Shade drive and folder you select is added or changed. - Trigger **New Asset** Triggers when a new asset appears in the Shade drive and folder you select. - Trigger **New Collection** Triggers when a new collection is created in the Shade drive you select. - Trigger **New Drive** Triggers when a new drive is created in the Shade workspace you select. - Trigger **New Public Share Link** Triggers when a new public share link is created in the Shade drive you select. - Trigger **New Transcription** Triggers when an asset in the Shade drive and folder you select finishes transcription. - Trigger **Public Share Link Updated** Triggers when a public share link in the Shade drive you select is created or changed. - Action **Copy a File** Copies a file or folder to another location within the same Shade drive. - Action **Create Folder** Creates a folder at the path you supply in a Shade drive. - Action **Find an Asset** Returns the assets in a Shade drive that match the text you search for, optionally narrowed by precision filters. - Action **Get Public Links for a File or Folder** Returns the public share links that exist for a file or folder in a Shade drive. - Action **Search Asset Chunks** Search a Shade drive and get back matching assets together with the specific chunks (subclips, document passages, image regions) that matched, with a relevance floor you control per media type. - Action **Search for an Asset by Description** Searches a Shade drive with a plain-language description and returns the assets that match, using Shade's AI index. - Action **Share File or Folder** Shares a file or folder in a Shade drive with the people you list, at the role you choose. Each person is emailed an invitation. - Action **Add form** Create a new form. - Action **Add template** Creates a new template in the workspace of the connected account. Leave the layout and pages blank to create an empty template you can design later in the editor. - Action **Add workspace** Creates a regular workspace with the identifier you supply. - Action **Convert HTML to PDF** Converts HTML content to a PDF document and returns it base64-encoded. - Action **Convert URL to PDF** Convert a web page URL to a PDF. - Action **Delete document** Delete a stored document from PDF Generator API's Document Storage. - Action **Delete template** Deletes a template from the workspace. - Action **Generate document** Merges a template with your data and returns the generated document as base64 content or a temporary public URL. - Action **Generate QR code** Generate a QR code image asset. - Action **Get document** Returns a document stored in Document Storage: its public URL and file details. - Action **Get template** Returns the configuration of a template: name, tags, draft status, layout, pages and components, data settings and editor preferences. - Action **List documents** Lists documents generated and stored in PDF Generator API (only documents generated with the URL/storage output option). Optionally filter by template and date range. - Action **List forms** Returns the forms available for the organization. - Action **List templates** Retrieve all templates in the workspace. - Action **List workspaces** Returns the workspaces in your PDF Generator API organization. - Action **Update template** Replaces a template's configuration. Layout and pages are replaced as a whole, not merged. ## Each app on its own - [ **Shade** Shade is an AI-powered cloud NAS for media teams that enables real-time editing, natural language search...](https://apiant.ai/connections/shade) - [ **PDF Generator API** # Introduction PDF Generator API allows you easily generate transactional PDF documents and reduce the...](https://apiant.ai/connections/pdf-generator-api) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Shade - [ **Shade to Loop & Tie** Loop & Tie is a gifting-at-scale engagement platform, which allows gifters to send a list of curated gifts...](https://apiant.ai/connect/shade-to-loop-tie) - [ **Shade to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/shade-to-stripe) - [ **Shade to Shopify** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/shade-to-shopify) - [ **Shade to Airtable** Organize anything with Airtable, a modern database created for everyone.](https://apiant.ai/connect/shade-to-airtable) - [ **Shade to Trello** Trello is a visual collaboration tool that organizes projects into boards, lists, and cards.](https://apiant.ai/connect/shade-to-trello) - [ **Shade to Zoom** Zoom unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, group messaging, and a software-based...](https://apiant.ai/connect/shade-to-zoom) ## More into PDF Generator API - [ **Wix to PDF Generator API** The Wix website builder gives businesses of any size the tools to create, manage and grow a fully integrated...](https://apiant.ai/connect/wix-to-pdf-generator-api) - [ **PostgreSQL to PDF Generator API** Connect directly to a PostgreSQL database and run SQL statements from your automations.](https://apiant.ai/connect/postgresql-to-pdf-generator-api) - [ **HubSpot to PDF Generator API** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-pdf-generator-api) - [ **Salesforce to PDF Generator API** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-pdf-generator-api) - [ **Slack to PDF Generator API** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-pdf-generator-api) - [ **Google Sheets to PDF Generator API** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-pdf-generator-api) Questions ## Shade and PDF Generator API, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Shade? Any of Shade's 7 triggers in the catalog, including Asset Updated, New Asset, New Collection and New Drive. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in PDF Generator API when something happens in Shade? Any of PDF Generator API's 16 actions, including Update template, Add form, Add template and Add workspace. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from PDF Generator API to Shade? PDF Generator API has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Shade. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads PDF Generator API's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Shade or PDF Generator API? 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 Shade and PDF Generator API 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.