--- title: "Connect VideoDB to Arcgis Online - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Video Uploaded & Indexed\" fires in VideoDB, your agent runs \"Add item\" in Arcgis Online." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/videodb-to-arcgis-online" --- # Connect VideoDB to Arcgis Online When **New Video Uploaded & Indexed** fires in [VideoDB](https://apiant.ai/connections/videodb), your agent runs **Add item** in [Arcgis Online](https://apiant.ai/connections/arcgis-online). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. VideoDB **1** trigger VideoDB **21** actions Arcgis Online **14** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want VideoDB and Arcgis Online 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 VideoDB can start in Arcgis Online - When **New Video Uploaded & Indexed** in VideoDB then **Add item** in Arcgis Online - When **New Video Uploaded & Indexed** in VideoDB then **Update item** in Arcgis Online 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 VideoDB and Arcgis Online ## Triggers and actions 1 trigger · 35 actions - 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. - Action **Add features** Adds one or more features (or table records) to an ArcGIS feature layer and returns the result for each added feature. - Action **Add folder** Creates a folder in a user's ArcGIS Online content space for organizing items. - Action **Add group** Creates a new group in your ArcGIS Online organization. You become the group's owner. - Action **Add item** Adds a new item (a URL, web map, app or JSON text content) to an ArcGIS Online user's content. - Action **Delete features** Deletes features from an ArcGIS feature layer or table, selected by object IDs, a where clause, or a spatial filter. - Action **Delete item** Deletes an item from a user's ArcGIS Online content, moving it to the recycle bin where supported or deleting it permanently. - Action **Find features** Finds features or table records in an ArcGIS feature layer that match a where clause, object IDs or a spatial filter, and returns them with their attributes and geometry. - Action **Find items** Searches ArcGIS Online for content items you can access, by keyword, bounding box, filter or category, and returns the matching items. - Action **Get item** Returns the details of an ArcGIS Online item, such as its title, type, owner, tags and sharing access. - Action **Get user** Returns an ArcGIS Online user's profile, including email, role, privileges, and the groups they belong to. - Action **List folders** Returns the folders in an ArcGIS Online user's content, with each folder's id and title. - Action **Share item** Shares an item you own with the public, your organization, and/or specific groups. - Action **Update features** Updates existing features or table records in an ArcGIS feature layer, returning a success result for each feature. - Action **Update item** Updates an existing ArcGIS Online item's details, such as its title, description, tags, URL or text content. Only the values you fill in are changed. ## Each app on its own - [ **VideoDB** VideoDB is an AI engine for video workflows—search scenes, cut clips, dub, subtitles, and apply GenAI effects.](https://apiant.ai/connections/videodb) - [ **Arcgis Online** Cloud GIS platform for mapping, geocoding, routing, and spatial data hosting and analysis.](https://apiant.ai/connections/arcgis-online) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from VideoDB - [ **VideoDB to Zoom** Zoom unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, group messaging, and a software-based...](https://apiant.ai/connect/videodb-to-zoom) - [ **VideoDB to Webflow** Webflow is a professional website builder and CMS for designing, building, and launching responsive...](https://apiant.ai/connect/videodb-to-webflow) - [ **VideoDB 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/videodb-to-wix) - [ **VideoDB to LinkedIn** LinkedIn is a professional networking platform enabling job seekers, companies, and thought leaders to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/videodb-to-linkedin) - [ **VideoDB to Facebook** Facebook is a social media and advertising platform used by individuals and businesses to connect, share...](https://apiant.ai/connect/videodb-to-facebook) - [ **VideoDB to Anthropic** Anthropic builds Claude, a family of large language models.](https://apiant.ai/connect/videodb-to-anthropic) ## More into Arcgis Online - [ **HubSpot to Arcgis Online** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-arcgis-online) - [ **Salesforce to Arcgis Online** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-arcgis-online) - [ **Slack to Arcgis Online** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. 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Any of Arcgis Online's 14 actions, including Update features, Update item, Add features and Add folder. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Arcgis Online to VideoDB? Arcgis Online has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in VideoDB. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Arcgis Online's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for VideoDB or Arcgis Online? 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 VideoDB and Arcgis Online 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.