--- title: "Connect The Events Calendar and VideoDB - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Event\" fires in The Events Calendar, your agent runs \"Add Collection\" in VideoDB." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/the-events-calendar-to-videodb" --- # Connect The Events Calendar and VideoDB When **New Event** fires in [The Events Calendar](https://apiant.ai/connections/the-events-calendar), your agent runs **Add Collection** in [VideoDB](https://apiant.ai/connections/videodb), or **New Video Uploaded & Indexed** in VideoDB to **Create Event** in The Events Calendar. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. The Events Calendar **1** trigger The Events Calendar **17** 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 The Events Calendar and VideoDB to do together? 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[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What The Events Calendar and VideoDB can do together ### From The Events Calendar to VideoDB - When **New Event** in The Events Calendar then **Add Collection** in VideoDB - When **New Event** in The Events Calendar then **Add Overlay / Watermark** in VideoDB ### From VideoDB to The Events Calendar - When **New Video Uploaded & Indexed** in VideoDB then **Create Event** in The Events Calendar - When **New Video Uploaded & Indexed** in VideoDB then **Update Event** in The Events Calendar 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 The Events Calendar and VideoDB ## Triggers and actions 2 triggers · 38 actions - Trigger **New Event** Polling trigger: fires when a new event is created. Lists events ordered by date created (newest first); deduped by event id. - Action **Create Event** Create a new event. - Action **Create Organizer** Create a new organizer. - Action **Create Venue** Create a new venue. - Action **Delete Event** Delete (move to trash) an event by ID. - Action **Delete Organizer** Delete (move to trash) an organizer by ID. - Action **Delete Venue** Delete (move to trash) a venue by ID. - Action **Get Event** Retrieve a single event by its ID. - Action **Get Organizer** Retrieve a single organizer by its ID. - Action **Get Venue** Retrieve a single venue by its ID. - Action **List Categories** Retrieve the list of event categories. - Action **List Events** Retrieve a list of events with optional filters (search, date range, status, pagination). - Action **List Organizers** Retrieve a list of organizers. - Action **List Tags** Retrieve the list of event tags. - Action **List Venues** Retrieve a list of venues. - Action **Update Event** Update an existing event by ID. - Action **Update Organizer** Update an existing organizer by ID. - Action **Update Venue** Update an existing venue by ID. - 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 - [ **The Events Calendar** The Events Calendar is a WordPress events management plugin.](https://apiant.ai/connections/the-events-calendar) - [ **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 The Events Calendar - [ **The Events Calendar to Webflow** Webflow is a professional website builder and CMS for designing, building, and launching responsive...](https://apiant.ai/connect/the-events-calendar-to-webflow) - [ **The Events Calendar to Trello** Trello is a visual collaboration tool that organizes projects into boards, lists, and cards.](https://apiant.ai/connect/the-events-calendar-to-trello) - [ **The Events Calendar to Zoom** Zoom unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, group messaging, and a software-based...](https://apiant.ai/connect/the-events-calendar-to-zoom) - [ **The Events Calendar to Twilio** Cloud communications platform for sending SMS/MMS messages, making and managing voice calls, and looking up...](https://apiant.ai/connect/the-events-calendar-to-twilio) - [ **The Events Calendar to Typeform** Build and publish online forms, surveys, and quizzes with Typeform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/the-events-calendar-to-typeform) - [ **The Events Calendar to Wix** The Wix website builder gives businesses of any size the tools to create, manage and grow a fully integrated...](https://apiant.ai/connect/the-events-calendar-to-wix) ## 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 ## The Events Calendar and VideoDB, answered ### ### What can start an automation from The Events Calendar? Any of The Events Calendar's 1 trigger in the catalog, including New Event. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in VideoDB when something happens in The Events Calendar? 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 The Events Calendar? Yes. When something happens in VideoDB, your agent can act in The Events Calendar too. This page covers both directions: VideoDB's triggers and The Events Calendar's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for The Events Calendar 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 The Events Calendar 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.