--- title: "Connect Tella to SMSAPI - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Video Created\" fires in Tella, your agent runs \"Create Contact\" in SMSAPI." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/tella-to-smsapi" --- # Connect Tella to SMSAPI When **New Video Created** fires in [Tella](https://apiant.ai/connections/tella), your agent runs **Create Contact** in [SMSAPI](https://apiant.ai/connections/smsapi). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Tella **1** trigger Tella **13** actions SMSAPI **11** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Tella and SMSAPI 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 Tella can start in SMSAPI - When **New Video Created** in Tella then **Create Contact** in SMSAPI - When **New Video Created** in Tella then **Send Text Message** in SMSAPI 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 Tella and SMSAPI ## Triggers and actions 1 trigger · 24 actions - Trigger **New Video Created** Fires instantly when a new video is created in your Tella workspace. - Action **Add Tag to Video** Adds an existing tag to a Tella video. Requires edit access to the video; adding a private tag only affects the connected user's library. - Action **Add Video** Creates a new Tella video from an uploaded video source; the source becomes the video's first clip. - Action **Add Video to Playlist** Adds an existing video to a Tella playlist. - Action **Create Playlist** Creates a new playlist in your workspace. - Action **Delete Playlist** Permanently deletes a Tella playlist. Videos in the playlist are not deleted. - Action **Delete Video** Permanently deletes a Tella video. - Action **Find Playlist** Finds playlists whose name matches the name you give (case-insensitive) and returns the matches, with the first match broken out. - Action **Find Video** Returns the videos whose title contains the specified name. - Action **Get Playlist** Returns the details of a Tella playlist, including its name, description, access settings, number of videos and view link. - Action **Get Video** Retrieves a Tella video's details, including chapters, transcript, thumbnails, exports, settings and links. - Action **Remove Video from Playlist** Removes a video from a playlist by playlist ID and video ID. - Action **Update Playlist** Updates an existing Playlist by ID, e.g. name/description. - Action **Update Video** Update a Tella video's title, description, sharing and access settings, viewer options, subtitle styling, audio and canvas settings. Only the fields you fill in are changed. - Action **Add Blacklisted Number** Adds a phone number to the account's blacklist so no SMS messages are sent to it, optionally until an expiration date. - Action **Add Sender Name** Adds a new sender name to the SMSAPI account. The name starts inactive until SMSAPI verifies it. - Action **Check HLR Lookup** Checks a mobile number against the HLR (Home Location Register). The lookup is accepted immediately; the detailed network result is sent to the HLR callback URL set in the SMSAPI Customer Portal. - Action **Create Contact** Creates a contact in the SMSAPI contact database. - Action **Delete Blacklisted Number** Removes a single number from the SMSAPI blacklist, so messages can be sent to it again. - Action **Delete Contact** Deletes a contact from the SMSAPI contact database by its ID. - Action **Get Account Balance** Returns the current credit balance (points) and profile details of the connected SMSAPI account. - Action **List Blacklisted Numbers** Lists the phone numbers on the account's blacklist (numbers SMS sending is blocked to), with each entry's id, number, date added and expiration date. - Action **List Sender Names** Lists every sender name on the SMSAPI account with its status (ACTIVE / INACTIVE), whether it is the default, and when it was created. - Action **Send Text Message** Sends an SMS to one or more phone numbers through SMSAPI. - Action **Send Text Message to Group** Sends an SMS to every contact in a group from the SMSAPI contacts database. ## Each app on its own - [ **Tella** Tella is a screen recorder that allows you to record, edit and share videos.](https://apiant.ai/connections/tella) - [ **SMSAPI** SMSAPI allows you to send text messages automatically. Messages can be fully personalized.](https://apiant.ai/connections/smsapi) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Tella - [ **Tella to Vercel** Vercel is a platform for building, deploying, and scaling fast, modern web applications effortlessly.](https://apiant.ai/connect/tella-to-vercel) - [ **Tella to Zenserp** SERP API for scraping real-time Google, Bing, and Yandex search, image, maps, news, and shopping results.](https://apiant.ai/connect/tella-to-zenserp) - [ **Tella to Trello** Trello is a visual collaboration tool that organizes projects into boards, lists, and cards.](https://apiant.ai/connect/tella-to-trello) - [ **Tella to Zoom** Zoom unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, group messaging, and a software-based...](https://apiant.ai/connect/tella-to-zoom) - [ **Tella to Twilio** Cloud communications platform for sending SMS/MMS messages, making and managing voice calls, and looking up...](https://apiant.ai/connect/tella-to-twilio) - [ **Tella to Typeform** Build and publish online forms, surveys, and quizzes with Typeform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/tella-to-typeform) ## More into SMSAPI - [ **Transloadit to SMSAPI** Transloadit is a file encoding service that helps you handle file uploads, resize, crop and watermark...](https://apiant.ai/connect/transloadit-to-smsapi) - [ **HubSpot to SMSAPI** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-smsapi) - [ **Salesforce to SMSAPI** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-smsapi) - [ **Slack to SMSAPI** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-smsapi) - [ **Google Sheets to SMSAPI** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-smsapi) - [ **Gmail to SMSAPI** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-smsapi) Questions ## Tella and SMSAPI, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Tella? Any of Tella's 1 trigger in the catalog, including New Video Created. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in SMSAPI when something happens in Tella? Any of SMSAPI's 11 actions, including Create Contact, Send Text Message, Send Text Message to Group and Add Blacklisted Number. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from SMSAPI to Tella? SMSAPI has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Tella. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads SMSAPI's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Tella or SMSAPI? 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 Tella and SMSAPI 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.