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Builder can leverage multiple external tools when designing your Project with Fusion. All integrations can be access on the Integrations page.
Zapier is a web-based service that allows users to automate tasks between different web applications. With Zapier, connect to hundreds of different applications through a single interface.
- Go to MCP servers.
- On the Zapier tile, click + Connect.
- If prompted, sign in to your Zapier account.
- Search through Zapier's list and find an application to connect to.
- Choose from a list of actions associated with that application.
- Click the button to Add the tools associated with that application.
- Click Save Connection.
The video below demonstrates connect to Google Calendar through Zapier.
This next video shows using a Zapier connection to the Weather by Zapier application to add weather data to an existing web application.
For guided instruction, watch Builder's very own Steve Sewell give a demonstration.
0:00 What's up, team? I want to show you something really cool. You know how we get asked sometimes, like, oh, can I connect to my Google Docs, can I connect to my whatever, can I connect to my Airtable, like, whatever?
0:08 Um, we've always been like, yeah, you could, you know, hopefully we'll get an MCP server, or maybe you can, you know, uh, build your own, or whatever, oh, yeah, Google Docs has an MCP server, but it has to be a remote one for us to work with it, blah, blah, blah.
0:20 Well now, I looked up the Zapier MCP server, which is really unique and interesting, which literally means you can connect to anything.
0:28 Google Docs, Confluence, Jira Tickets, like, literally anything. Like, I'm thinking we might even want to change this UI to be like, also, this is everything.
0:34 This is an everything MCP, every single service ever, um, you can connect through here. Let me show you how it works.
0:40 Choose Zapier, and it actually loads up this little UI. In the UI, you can connect to a bajillion and app search for them, so like Google Docs.
0:48 Because it's right there, let's say Neon Database, I basically have, uhm, or whatever, Neon CRM, blah, blah, blah, however you want.
0:54 Uhm, but I can add this, like, weather one. Oh, Builder, haha, there's a Builder.io thing in there. I think the Zapier team added it even on our behalf.
1:02 Anyway, uhm, so I've already configured this, so I already added, like, the getCurrentWeather. You can add as much as you want.
1:08 You can go to the tools list. You basically can just add as many services and tools as you want. It becomes, like, a super-empty list.
1:12 On the TCP server, all these become available to the AI, and you can save it. Uhm, you can see I'm connected, like usual.
1:19 Disconnect the same way. And then, let's go prompt something. And now, over in the chat, uhm, ignore, I broke the Zap, but whatever, it doesn't matter.
1:28 Uhm, in the chat, I just said, what is the weather, and ba-bam, Zapier weather, it's running the weather tool, and it gave me the weather.
1:36 It's cool. Connected to literally anything. This is pretty awesome. So now, again, when any prospect says, can you connect to X, the answer is always yes.
1:43 It's really easy to add a connection to Zapier. And Zapier's pricing applies, but Zapier's pricing is very much like, if I understand it in detail, you know, it's meant to be like these constant recurring background automations.
1:53 So, yeah, you probably use lots of Zaps, or whatever, instances, or, I forget what they call it, and just day-to-day use here.
2:00 Like, I think most self-serve users are going to be totally fine on the free tiers. You're not going to, unless you're hitting MCP hard, then sign up for a simple plan.
2:07 It's not that expensive. Um, so really super cool. And Zapier, of course, handles all the authentication and blah, blah, blah, all that stuff.
2:13 And you can customize it deeply as well, um, which is really, really, uh, neat. You can trigger your own workflows combining your own stuff.
2:20 So it's a lot more advanced than just get the basics. You can do a lot more advanced things, but anyway.
2:24 Really cool.