--- title: "Connect Udemy to Minor Planet Center - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Course Question\" fires in Udemy, your agent runs \"Find MPECs\" in Minor Planet Center." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/udemy-to-minor-planet-center" --- # Connect Udemy to Minor Planet Center When **New Course Question** fires in [Udemy](https://apiant.ai/connections/udemy), your agent runs **Find MPECs** in [Minor Planet Center](https://apiant.ai/connections/minor-planet-center). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Udemy **3** triggers Udemy **12** actions Minor Planet Center **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 Udemy and Minor Planet Center 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 Udemy can start in Minor Planet Center - When **New Course Question** in Udemy then **Find MPECs** in Minor Planet Center - When **New Course Review** in Udemy then **Find near-duplicate observations** in Minor Planet Center 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 Udemy and Minor Planet Center ## Triggers and actions 3 triggers · 23 actions - Trigger **New Course Question** Triggers when a student asks a new Q&A question in one of your courses. - Trigger **New Course Review** Triggers when a student leaves a new review on one of your courses. - Trigger **New Direct Message Thread** Triggers when a student starts a new direct message conversation with you (Udemy's automated messages are skipped). - Action **Delete Question** Deletes a Q&A question from one of your courses. - Action **List Course Questions** Returns Q&A questions across the courses you teach, filterable by status and course. - Action **List Course Reviews** Returns reviews of the courses you teach, filterable by status, course and star rating. - Action **List Message Threads** Returns your direct message threads with students, filterable by status or person. - Action **List Question Replies** Returns the replies to one Q&A question in a course. - Action **List Taught Courses** Returns the courses you teach on Udemy, optionally only those a given student is enrolled in. - Action **List Thread Messages** Returns the messages in one direct message thread. - Action **Mark Question Read** Marks a Q&A question in one of your courses as read or unread. - Action **Reply to Question** Posts a reply to a student's Q&A question in one of your courses. - Action **Send Message** Sends a message in an existing direct message thread with a student. - Action **Update Message Thread** Marks a direct message thread read, important, muted or blocked. - Action **Update Question Reply** Edits a Q&A reply's text or marks it as the question's top answer. - Action **Find MPECs** Search Minor Planet Electronic Circulars by object or search terms, optionally filtered by issue date range. - Action **Find near-duplicate observations** Search the MPC's published observation database for near-duplicates of a given observation by time and angular proximity. - Action **Get action code** Resend an observation submission's action code (used to retract observations or label objects) to the email address on file. - Action **Get magnitude band** Retrieve reference information for a magnitude band used in MPC observations, or all bands. - Action **Get NEOCP observations** Retrieve observation data for an object currently on the Near-Earth Object Confirmation Page by tracklet identifier. - Action **Get object identifier** Look up the designations and identification details for a minor planet or comet given a name, provisional or permanent designation. - Action **Get observations** Retrieve recorded astrometric observation data for a solar system object by designation. - Action **Get observation status** Check the processing status of individual submitted observations by tracklet/station, observation ID, obs80 string, or submission block ID. - Action **Get observatory codes** Retrieve details for one or all observatories registered with the MPC by observatory code. - Action **Get orbital elements** Retrieve orbital elements and related parameters for a solar system object by designation. - Action **List objects** List solar system objects belonging to a named group such as NEOs, comets, or TNOs, ordered by designation. ## Each app on its own - [ **Udemy** Udemy.com is an online learning platform. It is aimed at professional adults.](https://apiant.ai/connections/udemy) - [ **Minor Planet Center** Asterank's Minor Planet Center endpoint serves orbital and physical data on asteroids and minor planets.](https://apiant.ai/connections/minor-planet-center) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Udemy - [ **Udemy to Zoom** Zoom unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, group messaging, and a software-based...](https://apiant.ai/connect/udemy-to-zoom) - [ **Udemy to Webflow** Webflow is a professional website builder and CMS for designing, building, and launching responsive...](https://apiant.ai/connect/udemy-to-webflow) - [ **Udemy 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/udemy-to-wix) - [ **Udemy to LinkedIn** LinkedIn is a professional networking platform enabling job seekers, companies, and thought leaders to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/udemy-to-linkedin) - [ **Udemy to Facebook** Facebook is a social media and advertising platform used by individuals and businesses to connect, share...](https://apiant.ai/connect/udemy-to-facebook) - [ **Udemy to Anthropic** Anthropic builds Claude, a family of large language models.](https://apiant.ai/connect/udemy-to-anthropic) ## More into Minor Planet Center - [ **HubSpot to Minor Planet Center** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-minor-planet-center) - [ **Salesforce to Minor Planet Center** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-minor-planet-center) - [ **Slack to Minor Planet Center** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-minor-planet-center) - [ **Google Sheets to Minor Planet Center** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-minor-planet-center) - [ **Gmail to Minor Planet Center** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-minor-planet-center) - [ **Google Calendar to Minor Planet Center** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-minor-planet-center) Questions ## Udemy and Minor Planet Center, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Udemy? Any of Udemy's 3 triggers in the catalog, including New Course Question, New Course Review and New Direct Message Thread. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Minor Planet Center when something happens in Udemy? Any of Minor Planet Center's 11 actions, including Find MPECs, Find near-duplicate observations, Get action code and Get magnitude band. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Minor Planet Center to Udemy? Minor Planet Center has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Udemy. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Minor Planet Center's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Udemy or Minor Planet Center? 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 Udemy and Minor Planet Center 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.