Build an automation

An automation is a flow: a trigger, then one or more steps. For example, every Monday at 9am (the trigger), make this week’s advert (the step). You build flows in Automations, in the main menu.

Plans

Automations are on paid plans. The Reignitor steps that make adverts use an API key, and API keys need a plan with API access. See Pricing.

Start from a recipe

A recipe is a finished flow that Reignitor builds in your Automations workspace. You edit it from there. It is created turned off, so it cannot spend credits until you have checked it.

Recipe	Trigger	What it does
An advert every Monday	Every Monday at 9am (UTC)	Makes a fresh advert from a brief you write once.
Make an advert from a form	Someone submits a form	Gives your team a form with What is the advert about? and Brand or product name. Each answer becomes an advert.
Make an advert from anywhere	A web address receives a POST	Any tool that can send a web request can start an advert. Send brief and, optionally, brand in the request body.

1. Open Connectors in the main menu.

2. Under Start from a recipe, select a recipe.

   Reignitor builds the flow and opens it in Automations.

3. Open the Reignitor step and connect your account. See Connect your Reignitor account.

4. Check the brief. For the weekly recipe, replace the sample brief with your own.

5. Test the flow, then turn it on.

Connect your Reignitor account

The Reignitor steps act as your account, so they need an API key.

1. In Reignitor, open Connectors > API Keys.

2. Create a key with a label you will recognise, such as Automations. Copy it straight away. It is shown only once.

3. Back in the flow, open the Reignitor step and add a new connection.

4. Paste the key into API key. Leave Reignitor URL blank.

5. Save the connection. Reignitor checks the key when you save, so a wrong key or a plan without API access is caught now, not when the flow first runs.

For more on keys, see API authentication.

The Reignitor steps

Step	Fields	Result
Create an advert	What is it about? (a short brief), Script (optional) for your exact words, Brand or product name	Starts a render and returns its job id.
Get advert status	Job id from Create an advert	The status, progress, and the video address once it is done.

Each advert a flow makes spends credits from your account, just as if you made it yourself. See How credits work.

React to a finished video

To start a flow when a video finishes, add a webhook trigger to the flow, copy its address, and register it in Reignitor under Webhooks. See Webhooks.