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An AI teammate for Amara.

Connect Amara and your Cicada agent works in it for you: 15 Amara actions, from looking things up to making changes. Ask from iMessage, WhatsApp, Slack or the app, and keep it read-only if you only want it to look.

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Things to ask about Amara
  • Summarise what I missed in Amara today, most important first.
  • Draft replies to the Amara messages waiting on me.
  • Tell me if anyone mentions the Northwind contract in Amara.
  • Send the team the weekly update through Amara on Friday at 5.
Text it, Slack it, or type it in the app. Swap in your own details.
What Cicada can do in Amara

15 Amara actions, picked for what you ask.

About Amara: Amara is an online platform that enables users to create, edit, and manage subtitles and captions for videos, facilitating accessibility and multilingual content.

Reads

11 in all · always allowed
  • List Teams
    List all teams. use when you need to retrieve your accessible teams with pagination.
  • List Videos
    List all videos. use when you need to fetch a paginated list of videos with optional filters.
  • Get User Data
    Get user data by username or id. use when you need to fetch account details for a user.
  • Get Team Details
    Get details on a specific team by slug. use when you need metadata for a single team.
  • View Video Details
    View details of a specific video by id. use when you need complete metadata for a given video.
  • Fetch Subtitles Data
    Fetch subtitle data for a video in a specific language. use when you need to retrieve subtitle…
  • Get Video URL Details
    Get details for a specific video url. use when you have a public or embeddable video url and need…
  • List Subtitle Languages
    List all subtitle languages for a video. use when you have a video id and need to fetch its…
  • List Available Languages
    Get a list of all supported languages. use when you need to know available language options from…
  • Get Subtitle Language Details
    Retrieve details for a single subtitle language. use when you have video id and language code and…
  • List Video URLs
    List all urls associated with a video. use when you need to retrieve every url for embedding or…

Changes

4 in all · off when Amara is read-only
  • Add Subtitle Note
    Add a note to a subtitle set. use after retrieving the notes uri of the subtitle set.
  • Make Video URL Primary
    Set a video url as the primary url. use when you need to designate one of a video's urls as primary…
  • Create Subtitle Language
    Create a new subtitle language for a video. use when you need to add a language track (iso 639-1…
  • Update Subtitle Language
    Update a subtitle language for a video. use after reviewing existing subtitle language settings and…

Showing 15 of 15. Your agent can use every one of them; you don't pick them, you ask for the outcome.

How it works

Connected in a minute. In your control after that.

  1. Connect Amara

    Open Connections, find Amara and paste an API key from your Amara account settings. Cicada checks it works before saving it.

  2. Choose what it may do

    Full, Ask first or Read-only, for the whole workspace. Share Amara with the team, or keep it under each person's own login.

  3. Ask from anywhere

    Text your agent on iMessage or WhatsApp, message it in Slack or the app, or put a Amara job on a schedule: every morning, every Friday.

Works with your other tools

Amara, together with the rest of your stack.

Ask for an outcome that spans apps and your agent pulls from each one, cross-checks them and sends back one answer.

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Often used alongside

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Questions

Amara and Cicada, answered.

Does Cicada integrate with Amara?

Yes. Amara is one of the 888 apps with a page here, and it connects with an API key. Once it's connected, every agent in your workspace can use it from any channel you talk to them on.

How do I connect Amara?

Open Connections, find Amara and paste an API key from your Amara account settings. Cicada checks it works before saving it.

What can Cicada do in Amara?

15 actions: 11 that read from Amara and 4 that change things in it, for example list teams, list videos, get user data. It picks the right ones for what you ask and chains them with your other apps.

Can I stop Cicada changing things in Amara?

Yes. In Connections, set Amara to Read-only and no agent in your workspace can create, change or delete anything in it; it can still read. Ask first lets it act but makes it check with you before each change.

Can I ask about Amara from my phone?

Yes. Text your agent on iMessage or WhatsApp, or message it in Slack or the app. It answers in the same thread, and it can run Amara jobs on a schedule, like every morning at 8.

Is my Amara data safe?

Your Amara login or key is stored on the server and never appears in a conversation. Disconnecting removes it. Every action an agent takes is in your activity log, and your data isn't used to train models.

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