--- title: "Connect Spaceflight News to Updown.io - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New article\" fires in Spaceflight News, your agent runs \"Create Check\" in Updown.io." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/spaceflight-news-to-updown-io" --- # Connect Spaceflight News to Updown.io When **New article** fires in [Spaceflight News](https://apiant.ai/connections/spaceflight-news), your agent runs **Create Check** in [Updown.io](https://apiant.ai/connections/updown-io). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Spaceflight News **3** triggers Spaceflight News **6** actions Updown.io **10** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Spaceflight News and Updown.io 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 Spaceflight News can start in Updown.io - When **New article** in Spaceflight News then **Create Check** in Updown.io - When **New blog** in Spaceflight News then **Create Recipient** in Updown.io 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 Spaceflight News and Updown.io ## Triggers and actions 3 triggers · 16 actions - Trigger **New article** Fires when a new spaceflight news article is published. - Trigger **New blog** Fires when a new spaceflight-related blog post is published. - Trigger **New report** Fires when a new spaceflight industry report is published. - Action **Get article** Retrieve a single spaceflight news article by its ID. - Action **Get blog** Retrieve a single spaceflight-related blog post by its ID. - Action **Get report** Retrieve a single spaceflight industry report by its ID. - Action **List articles** Search and list spaceflight news articles, with filters for news site, launch, event, and featured status. - Action **List blogs** Search and list spaceflight-related blog posts, with filters for news site, launch, event, and featured status. - Action **List reports** Search and list spaceflight industry reports, with filters for news site, keywords, and publication date. - Action **Create Check** Creates a new uptime check in updown.io for a URL you want monitored, and returns the created check including its token. - Action **Create Recipient** Adds a new alert recipient (email, SMS, webhook, Slack-compatible or Microsoft Teams) to your updown.io account and returns the created recipient. - Action **Delete Check** Deletes an uptime check from updown.io by its token. - Action **Delete Recipient** Removes an alert recipient from your updown.io account by its id. - Action **Get Check** Returns a single updown.io uptime check by its token, including its current status, uptime and settings. - Action **Get Check Metrics** Returns performance metrics for an updown.io check over a period — uptime, apdex, request counts and average timings, optionally grouped by time or monitoring location. - Action **List Checks** Returns every uptime check on your updown.io account with its current status and settings. - Action **List Downtimes** Returns the recorded outages for an updown.io check, newest first, with the reason, start and end times and duration of each. - Action **List Recipients** Returns every alert recipient on your updown.io account — email addresses, phone numbers, webhooks and chat integrations. - Action **Update Check** Updates the settings of an existing updown.io uptime check — its URL, name, interval, threshold, alert muting and more. Anything left blank keeps its current value. ## Each app on its own - [ **Spaceflight News** Spaceflight News API aggregates news coverage of spaceflight and the space industry from many publishers.](https://apiant.ai/connections/spaceflight-news) - [ **Updown.io** updown.io is an online service that checks your website's status by periodically sending an HTTP request.](https://apiant.ai/connections/updown-io) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Spaceflight News - [ **Spaceflight News to Solematica** Solematica is an Italian solar-energy service that compares photovoltaic installer offers and publishes...](https://apiant.ai/connect/spaceflight-news-to-solematica) - [ **Spaceflight News to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/spaceflight-news-to-stripe) - [ **Spaceflight News to Shopify** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/spaceflight-news-to-shopify) - [ **Spaceflight News to Trello** Trello is a visual collaboration tool that organizes projects into boards, lists, and cards.](https://apiant.ai/connect/spaceflight-news-to-trello) - [ **Spaceflight News to Zoom** Zoom unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, group messaging, and a software-based...](https://apiant.ai/connect/spaceflight-news-to-zoom) - [ **Spaceflight News to Twilio** Cloud communications platform for sending SMS/MMS messages, making and managing voice calls, and looking up...](https://apiant.ai/connect/spaceflight-news-to-twilio) ## More into Updown.io - [ **HubSpot to Updown.io** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-updown-io) - [ **Salesforce to Updown.io** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-updown-io) - [ **Slack to Updown.io** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-updown-io) - [ **Google Sheets to Updown.io** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-updown-io) - [ **Gmail to Updown.io** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-updown-io) - [ **Google Calendar to Updown.io** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-updown-io) Questions ## Spaceflight News and Updown.io, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Spaceflight News? Any of Spaceflight News's 3 triggers in the catalog, including New article, New blog and New report. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Updown.io when something happens in Spaceflight News? Any of Updown.io's 10 actions, including Create Check, Create Recipient, Update Check and Get Check. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Updown.io to Spaceflight News? Updown.io has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Spaceflight News. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Updown.io's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Spaceflight News or Updown.io? 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 Spaceflight News and Updown.io 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.