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bookoly

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Automate video creation and processing at scale

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bookoly is a video creation and processing API that lets you automate the production of professional video content — assembling slideshows from images, mixing audio tracks, generating subtitles, applying watermarks, cropping for different platforms, splitting recordings into clips, and extracting audio, all via API. Connect it to Actionist and your agents can produce social media assets, training videos, help centre tutorials, investor presentations, and legal evidence clips automatically — without any of your team touching a video editing application.

Average time saved
7 hours
per person · per month
≈ 1 workdays back

Eliminates manual work. Agents eliminate the manual cycle of opening video editors, adding subtitles, cropping for each platform, stamping watermarks, and splitting long recordings into segments — tasks that individually take 20–90 minutes each and recur across every team every week.

Schedule

What your bookoly agent runs on autopilot

A week of scheduled jobs your Actionist agent will execute on your behalf.

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Multi-app workflows

bookoly × every other app you use

End-to-end automations that span multiple apps — each one a real business outcome.

6Workflows
5Apps spanned
~19 hrsSaved / week
6Personas served
For marketing
Featured4 apps

Weekly promo video assembled from campaign assets

When a campaign brief is marked Ready in Notion, the agent fetches the approved images from Drive, creates a slideshow video, layers the brand music, stamps the logo watermark, and posts the finished video to the #campaign-review Slack channel — the whole production sequence runs without touching a single editing tool.

~5 hrs

Time saved for your team — every week, on autopilot

The flow
Trigger·When a new campaign brief is marked Ready in Notion
Result
Create Video Slideshow from the campaign imagesAdd Audio to Video — apply the brand music trackAdd Watermark to Video — stamp the brand logoPost the finished video URL to the #campaign-review channel
The win
Saved per run
~2 hrs
Runs / week
~3×
Every campaign brief produces a branded promo video in under 10 minutes
Driven byMarketing Agent
ROI

Savings

What your team gets back — two angles: what you stop doing manually, and what that's worth.

Without Actionist

What you do manually today

With Actionist

What your agent runs for you

  • Sales
    45 min / week
    Manual demo video production

    Sales reps export slide images, open a video editor, add transitions and audio manually, and wait for an export — a process that takes 30–60 minutes per video and competes with selling time.

    Sales Agent
    0 min
    Agent produces branded demo videos on demand

    When a deal advances, the agent calls bookoly to assemble a slideshow, add narration audio, and stamp the brand watermark — a polished video asset is ready before the rep writes the follow-up email.

  • Marketing
    60 min / week
    Manual video post-production

    The marketing team manually adds subtitles in a caption editor, exports separate crops for each platform, and stamps watermarks in a separate tool — a multi-hour process for every video that enters the social queue.

    Marketing Agent
    0 min
    Agent captions, crops, and watermarks every asset automatically

    The agent runs every marketing video through a subtitle pass, crops it to each platform's native aspect ratio, and stamps the brand watermark — a full multi-format publish package is ready without touching an editing tool.

  • Customer Support
    30 min / week
    Manual tutorial captioning

    Support writers manually transcribe or edit auto-captions in a separate tool before each tutorial can be published — adding 20–40 minutes per video to the help centre publishing workflow.

    Customer Support Agent
    0 min
    Agent captions every tutorial on upload

    When a screen recording lands in the help centre folder, the agent automatically generates and embeds subtitles before the video is published — every tutorial is accessible on the first day without a caption editing step.

  • Human Resources
    90 min / week
    Manual training video preparation

    HR manually scrubs through recordings to identify chapter points, exports each segment separately, adds captions in a third-party tool, and uploads modules one by one — a half-day task per recording.

    Human Resources Agent
    0 min
    Agent segments and captions training content automatically

    When a long training recording is uploaded, the agent splits it into LMS modules at chapter boundaries and captions each segment — a two-hour recording becomes a full course without anyone touching a video editor.

  • Finance
    25 min / week
    Manual investor video processing

    Finance manually exports the video to a caption tool, adds a watermark overlay in a separate editor, exports the audio track for the archive, and emails the distribution list — a sequence that takes an hour per video.

    Finance Agent
    0 min
    Agent captions, watermarks, and archives investor videos on upload

    When an investor update video is uploaded, the agent adds subtitles, stamps the Confidential watermark, extracts the audio for transcription, and notifies the distribution list — all in one automated sequence.

  • Operations
    40 min / week
    Manual batch video operations

    Ops team members manually correct orientation in video tools, stamp watermarks file by file, and use audio editors to join multi-part recordings — small tasks that collectively consume hours of non-billable operations time each week.

    Operations Agent
    0 min
    Agent handles orientation, watermarking, and batch merging automatically

    The operations agent corrects video orientation, watermarks client deliverables, and merges multi-part audio files in scheduled batches — the team's video processing backlog clears itself each week.

  • Legal
    20 min / week
    Manual deposition clip preparation

    Legal staff manually scrub to timestamp marks in a video editor, export clips, add captions in a separate tool, stamp watermarks, and file the excerpts — a process that takes 45–90 minutes per clip and delays attorney review.

    Legal Agent
    0 min
    Agent extracts, captions, and watermarks deposition clips on mark-up

    When counsel marks a timestamp range, the agent extracts the clip, auto-generates subtitles, stamps the case reference watermark, and delivers the excerpt to the case file — a review-ready clip in minutes.

+ 100s of other bookoly automations
Average time saved
31 hrs / person / month
Calculator

Calculate what your team saves

Team size
5 people
Hourly rate
$75 / hr
Hours saved / week
9
Hours saved / year
450
Annual ROI
$33,750

Based on bookoly's typical team usage — the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~1.8 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.

Connect

How to plug bookoly into Actionist

Pick the connection method that suits your environment.

Connect bookoly with an API token generated from your bookoly account settings. The token gives Actionist permission to submit video processing jobs and retrieve job results on your behalf.

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Open your bookoly account

Log in to bookoly.com and navigate to Settings. Under the API section, click Generate token to create a new API key.

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Copy the token

Copy the generated API token and store it in a password manager. bookoly only shows the token once at generation time.

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Paste into Actionist

Paste the token into the API token field below and click Test connection. Actionist will confirm the handshake with a test read call.

Credentials you'll need
API token*
bookoly Dashboard → Settings → API → Generate token
Actions

14 actions your agent can call

Read and write operations available to your Actionist agent.

Triggers

0 events your agent can react to

Events your agent watches for, and the actions it kicks off in response.

This app has no triggers yet.
FAQs

Questions about bookoly + Actionist

How does Actionist connect to bookoly?
Go to the Apps tab, find bookoly, and click Connect. Paste your bookoly API token into the token field — you can generate one from your bookoly account dashboard under Settings. Actionist runs a test call to confirm the connection before any video processing tasks run.
How does bookoly actually process the video — where does the file go?
bookoly processes video and audio files via its API. Actionist passes your source media files (images, video clips, audio tracks) as URLs to bookoly's API endpoints. bookoly handles all transcoding, subtitle generation, audio mixing, and watermark rendering server-side and returns a processed output file URL when the job completes.
What video and audio file formats does bookoly support?
bookoly supports a wide range of common video and audio formats including MP4, MOV, AVI, and WebM for video, and MP3, WAV, AAC for audio. Images accepted as slideshow inputs include JPEG, PNG, and WebP. Check the bookoly documentation for the current full list of supported codecs and containers.
Can bookoly automatically generate subtitles in multiple languages?
Yes. bookoly's subtitle generation is AI-powered and supports multiple languages. When you use the Add Audio with Subtitles or Add Subtitles to a Video action, bookoly transcribes the audio track and embeds the generated captions directly into the output file. You can also pass a pre-written subtitle file if you prefer manual captions over auto-generated ones.
Can I process many videos in parallel with bookoly?
bookoly is built for automation at scale. The API is stateless and designed for parallel processing — you can fire multiple video jobs simultaneously. If you are running a large-volume content operation (hundreds of videos per day), check your bookoly plan's concurrent-job and monthly processing-minute limits to plan capacity appropriately.
Can I connect bookoly to other tools in the same Actionist workflow?
bookoly integrates natively with Make (formerly Integromat) and, and via Actionist you can connect it to any of Actionist's 200+ supported apps. Common combinations: generate a video slideshow when new images are added to Google Drive; add subtitles to a video when it is uploaded to Dropbox; post the processed output to Slack when a job finishes; log processing metadata to a Google Sheets tracker.
Where does the finished video go after bookoly processes it?
bookoly returns a URL to the finished output file when a processing job completes. Actionist can then pass that URL to a downstream action — uploading the file to Google Drive, attaching it to a Notion page, posting it to a Slack channel, or triggering another processing step. The output URL is the handoff point between bookoly and the rest of your workflow.
What video operations can bookoly perform via Actionist?
Slideshow creation, watermark placement, audio addition, subtitle generation, video rotation, cropping, splitting, and audio extraction are all available as discrete API actions. Each action is atomic — you can chain multiple processing steps across separate Actionist actions to build a multi-stage video production pipeline without writing a single line of custom code.