--- title: "Connect Udemy and VideoDB - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Course Question\" fires in Udemy, your agent runs \"Add Collection\" in VideoDB." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/udemy-to-videodb" --- # Connect Udemy and VideoDB When **New Course Question** fires in [Udemy](https://apiant.ai/connections/udemy), your agent runs **Add Collection** in [VideoDB](https://apiant.ai/connections/videodb), or **New Video Uploaded & Indexed** in VideoDB to **Send Message** in Udemy. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Udemy **3** triggers Udemy **11** 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 Udemy and VideoDB 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 and VideoDB can do together ### From Udemy to VideoDB - When **New Course Question** in Udemy then **Add Collection** in VideoDB - When **New Course Review** in Udemy then **Add Overlay / Watermark** in VideoDB ### From VideoDB to Udemy - When **New Video Uploaded & Indexed** in VideoDB then **Send Message** in Udemy - When **New Video Uploaded & Indexed** in VideoDB then **List Message Threads** in Udemy 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 VideoDB ## Triggers and actions 4 triggers · 32 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 Question Reply** Edits a Q&A reply's text or marks it as the question's top answer. - 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 - [ **Udemy** Udemy.com is an online learning platform. It is aimed at professional adults.](https://apiant.ai/connections/udemy) - [ **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 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 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 is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](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 ## Udemy and VideoDB, 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 VideoDB when something happens in Udemy? 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 Udemy? Yes. When something happens in VideoDB, your agent can act in Udemy too. This page covers both directions: VideoDB's triggers and Udemy's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Udemy 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 Udemy 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.