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Design & media · Connects with an API key

An AI teammate for VideoDB.

Connect VideoDB and your Cicada agent works in it for you: 11 VideoDB 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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300 free credits. No card. Read-only if you want.

Things to ask about VideoDB
  • Find the latest VideoDB files for the launch and send me the links.
  • What changed in VideoDB this week?
  • Who's waiting on feedback in VideoDB?
  • Pull the approved VideoDB assets into the shared folder.
Text it, Slack it, or type it in the app. Swap in your own details.
What Cicada can do in VideoDB

11 VideoDB actions, picked for what you ask.

About VideoDB: VideoDB is a video infrastructure platform for storing, searching, understanding, editing, and generating video, audio, and image content.

Reads

7 in all · always allowed
  • Get Media
    Get metadata for one VideoDB video, audio file, or image.
  • List Media
    List videos, audio files, or images in one VideoDB collection using one normalized media interface.
  • Ask Collection
    Queue a grounded question-answer request over a VideoDB collection's Search V2 indexes.
  • Get Collection
    Get metadata for one VideoDB collection by ID.
  • Get Async Result
    Check one VideoDB async operation by response ID. Returns its current state or terminal provider…
  • List Collections
    List collections available to the connected VideoDB API key and identify the default collection.
  • Search Collection
    Run synchronous semantic search over indexed media in a VideoDB collection.

Changes

4 in all · off when VideoDB is read-only
  • Ingest Media
    Queue ingestion of a video, audio file, or image from an HTTP(S) URL into a VideoDB collection.
  • Rename Media
    Rename one VideoDB video, audio file, or image.
  • Create Collection
    Create a VideoDB collection for organizing and searching media. Collections are private by default.
  • Update Collection
    Update the name, description, or visibility of an existing VideoDB collection.

Showing 11 of 11. 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 VideoDB

    Open Connections, find VideoDB and paste an API key from your VideoDB 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 VideoDB 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 VideoDB job on a schedule: every morning, every Friday.

Works with your other tools

VideoDB, 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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Questions

VideoDB and Cicada, answered.

Does Cicada integrate with VideoDB?

Yes. VideoDB 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 VideoDB?

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

What can Cicada do in VideoDB?

11 actions: 7 that read from VideoDB and 4 that change things in it, for example get media, list media, ask collection. It picks the right ones for what you ask and chains them with your other apps.

Can I stop Cicada changing things in VideoDB?

Yes. In Connections, set VideoDB 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 VideoDB 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 VideoDB jobs on a schedule, like every morning at 8.

Is my VideoDB data safe?

Your VideoDB 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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