--- title: "Connect Timing to BBC iPlayer Business Layer - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Project\" fires in Timing, your agent runs \"Get channel schedule\" in BBC iPlayer Business Layer." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/timing-to-bbc-iplayer-business-layer" --- # Connect Timing to BBC iPlayer Business Layer When **New Project** fires in [Timing](https://apiant.ai/connections/timing), your agent runs **Get channel schedule** in [BBC iPlayer Business Layer](https://apiant.ai/connections/bbc-iplayer-business-layer). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Timing **4** triggers Timing **19** actions BBC iPlayer Business Layer **7** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Timing and BBC iPlayer Business Layer 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. 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[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What Timing can start in BBC iPlayer Business Layer - When **New Project** in Timing then **Get channel schedule** in BBC iPlayer Business Layer - When **New Team** in Timing then **List channels** in BBC iPlayer Business Layer 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 Timing and BBC iPlayer Business Layer ## Triggers and actions 4 triggers · 26 actions - Trigger **New Project** Triggered when a new project is created in Timing. - Trigger **New Team** Triggered when you are added to a new team in Timing. - Trigger **New Time Entry** Triggered when a new time entry is logged in Timing. - Trigger **New Timer Started and Running** Triggered when a new timer is started and is still running in Timing. - Action **Batch Update Time Entries** Updates several Timing time entries at once — moves them to a project, retitles them, sets notes, billing status or custom fields. Anything left blank is left untouched on the entries. - Action **Create Project** Creates a new project in Timing, optionally under a parent project, and returns the created project. - Action **Create Time Entry** Logs a finished block of work in Timing between a start and end time, optionally against a project, and returns the created time entry. - Action **Delete Project** Deletes a project in Timing, along with all of its child projects. - Action **Delete Time Entry** Deletes a time entry in Timing. - Action **Find Project** Searches your Timing projects by title and returns the first match, plus the full list of matches. - Action **Find Team** Finds a team you belong to in Timing by its name and returns the first match, plus every team whose name matched. - Action **Get Activity Hierarchy** Returns a readable breakdown of what you worked on in Timing over a date range, as tab-indented text grouped by project and app with durations. - Action **List Projects** Returns the projects you can see in Timing, optionally filtered by title, team, or hiding archived ones. - Action **List Teams** Returns all the Timing teams you are a member of. - Action **List Time Entries** Returns your Timing time entries, optionally narrowed by date range, project, team member, search text or billing status. - Action **Show Latest Time Entry** Returns your most recent time entry in Timing. - Action **Show Project** Returns a single Timing project with its colour, notes, billing default, parent and child projects. - Action **Show Running Timer** Returns the timer that is currently running in Timing. Errors with a not-found if no timer is running. - Action **Show Time Entry** Returns a single Timing time entry with its times, duration, project, notes and billing status. - Action **Start Timer** Starts a running timer in Timing, stopping any timer that is already running, and returns the new entry. - Action **Stop Timer** Stops the timer that is currently running in Timing and returns the finished time entry. - Action **Update Project** Updates a Timing project's name, colour, notes, archive state or billing default. Anything left blank keeps its current value. - Action **Update Time Entry** Updates a Timing time entry — its times, project, title, notes or billing status. Anything left blank keeps its current value. - Action **Get channel schedule** Returns the broadcast schedule of a BBC iPlayer channel for a given day. - Action **Get episode** Returns the BBC iPlayer episode for a given episode identifier. - Action **Get programme** Returns a BBC iPlayer programme (brand or series) by its PID, including its initial child episodes. - Action **List categories** Returns the list of all categories in BBC TV & iPlayer. - Action **List channels** Returns all BBC TV and iPlayer channels, optionally for a specific region. - Action **List episodes of a programme** Returns the child episodes of a BBC iPlayer programme. - Action **List programmes by category** Returns the iPlayer programmes (brands and series) in a given category. ## Each app on its own - [ **Timing** Timing is an automatic time tracking app for macOS.](https://apiant.ai/connections/timing) - [ **BBC iPlayer Business Layer** The definitive iPlayer API.](https://apiant.ai/connections/bbc-iplayer-business-layer) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Timing - [ **Timing to Quran-api** Quran-api is a free static service serving the text of the Quran across more than ninety languages and four...](https://apiant.ai/connect/timing-to-quran-api) - [ **Timing to Google Sheets** Google Sheets](https://apiant.ai/connect/timing-to-google-sheets) - [ **Timing to Trello** Trello is a visual collaboration tool that organizes projects into boards, lists, and cards.](https://apiant.ai/connect/timing-to-trello) - [ **Timing to Zoom** Zoom unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, group messaging, and a software-based...](https://apiant.ai/connect/timing-to-zoom) - [ **Timing to Twilio** Cloud communications platform for sending SMS/MMS messages, making and managing voice calls, and looking up...](https://apiant.ai/connect/timing-to-twilio) - [ **Timing to Typeform** Build and publish online forms, surveys, and quizzes with Typeform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/timing-to-typeform) ## More into BBC iPlayer Business Layer - [ **HubSpot to BBC iPlayer Business Layer** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-bbc-iplayer-business-layer) - [ **Salesforce to BBC iPlayer Business Layer** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-bbc-iplayer-business-layer) - [ **Slack to BBC iPlayer Business Layer** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. 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Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in BBC iPlayer Business Layer when something happens in Timing? Any of BBC iPlayer Business Layer's 7 actions, including Get channel schedule, Get episode, Get programme and List categories. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from BBC iPlayer Business Layer to Timing? BBC iPlayer Business Layer has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Timing. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads BBC iPlayer Business Layer's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Timing or BBC iPlayer Business Layer? 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 Timing and BBC iPlayer Business Layer 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.