Prolifik for Zapier

Prolifik has its own app on Zapier. A Zap can start when a clip or a video is ready in Prolifik, and a Zap step can clip a video, make a batch of branded videos, add a web page to a brand, or post to the social accounts you connected in Prolifik. The app signs in with a Prolifik API key, so every step runs under the same plan limits as the dashboard and the REST API.

Updated 19 October 2026

What you can automate

• Clip new uploads. When a video goes up on your YouTube channel, Prolifik cuts it into vertical clips with captions. Twitch and Kick links work too.
• Move finished work. Copy each new clip or video to Google Drive or Dropbox, post it in Slack for review, add a row to a spreadsheet, or email it to a client.
• Make videos from new pages. A new blog post or changelog entry becomes a content source for a brand, and Prolifik writes and renders videos from it in any of the six formats.
• Post when something happens elsewhere. Publish or schedule a video or clip to TikTok, Instagram, YouTube or X from any Zap.

A few things stay in the Prolifik dashboard: connecting social accounts, AI Studio, AI influencers, cloning, and clipping a file you upload yourself. Apart from connecting social accounts, the REST API covers all of them.

Connect your Prolifik account

You need a Prolifik account on a paid plan, from €20 a month, and a Zapier account. Accounts on the 7-day free trial cannot create API keys, so the connection works once you pick a plan. Zapier's free plan runs two-step Zaps; the examples below with three or four steps need a paid Zapier plan.

1. In Prolifik, open Settings > Developer API and create a new key. Call it Zapier. With a key of its own, you can revoke Zapier's access later without breaking your other integrations.
2. Tick the scopes. For everything the Zapier app can do, tick clipper:read, clipper:write, content:read, content:write and publish:write. The form leaves publish:write off, so tick it yourself if a Zap will use Publish Video or Publish Clip.
3. Pick an expiry of 30 days, 90 days or 1 year. When the key expires, Zapier marks the connection as expired and asks you to reconnect with a new key, so a longer expiry means fewer interruptions.
4. Copy the key. It starts with plk_live_ and Prolifik shows it only once.
5. In Zapier, create a Zap and pick Prolifik as the app for the trigger or for an action. You can also start from Prolifik's page on Zapier.
6. Choose an event. When Zapier asks for an account, choose to sign in to Prolifik, paste the key into API Key and continue.
7. Zapier tests the key and names the connection after your active brand and plan, for example Acme Coffee (Pro plan). Test the step to pull in real data from your account.

Treat the key like a password: keep it out of Zap notes, shared documents and screenshots. If it leaks, revoke it in Settings > Developer API, create a new one and reconnect Prolifik in Zapier.

Which scopes each step needs

Publish Clip needs clipper:write and publish:write together, the same posting scope as Publish Video, so a key that can clip cannot post clips until you tick publish:write. Without it, the Zap step fails with a message naming the missing scope. Publish Clip also reads with clipper:read to list your accounts and, when you pick a Brand, to check that the account belongs to it.

Triggers, actions and search

Triggers check for new items on Zapier's polling schedule, which runs every 1 to 15 minutes depending on your Zapier plan. Create Clips and Create Videos queue a job and return its ID straight away. Clipping and rendering take several minutes, so pick up the results with a New Clip or New Video trigger in a second Zap.

Fields worth knowing

• Create Clips. One video per run: channels, playlists and live streams are refused. 1 to 20 clips, 3 by default. Clip length runs from under 30 seconds up to 3 to 5 minutes, with 30 to 90 seconds as the default. Video type tells the AI which moments to look for (General, Podcast or interview, Stream reaction, Casino stream, Sports broadcast). Caption style is Classic, Karaoke, Bold, Minimal, Neon or none; layout is Blur fill, Center crop or Smart reframe; aspect ratio is 9:16, 1:1, 4:5 or 16:9. Instructions take up to 2,000 characters, for example "only the product demo parts".
• Create Videos. The six formats are Image Carousel, Text Story, Meme Reaction, Clip Montage (listed as B-Roll Montage in Zapier's Format menu), Caption Meme and Video Hook & Demo. In Your own text, each entry is used word for word for one video, and an empty entry lets the AI write that one. For Image Carousel, separate the slides of an entry with a | character. Music mood and Footage subjects appear only for the formats that use them. Video Hook & Demo needs a demo video from your Prolifik media library (mp4, mov or webm, up to 60 seconds and 100 MB), so upload it in Prolifik first. Its hook video is optional and can run up to 15 seconds.
• Publish Video. Pick one or more of the brand's connected accounts. Captions take up to 2,200 characters and up to 30 hashtags. Schedule for accepts any time from one minute to one year ahead; leave it empty to post right away. Leave Add AI-generated label empty and Prolifik turns the platform's AI label on when the video uses AI Studio media.
• Publish Clip. One account per step. The clip's title and description become the caption. Brand is optional; if you pick one, the account has to belong to that brand.
• Find Brand. An exact name wins, then the closest partial match. Use it when the brand comes from data, such as a column in a sheet, and map its Brand ID into the next step.
• What the triggers return. New Clip gives each clip's title, description, hook, hashtags, length, virality score from 0 to 100, Video Download URL and thumbnail, plus the source video's URL, title and channel. New Video gives the format, the hook, body and call-to-action text, carousel slide images and texts, Video Download URL, thumbnail and Expires At.

Five Zaps to start with

The app and event names below are Zapier's own. If one has been renamed since, pick the closest match.

Limits

• Your plan's allowances apply. Zap steps draw on the same monthly allowances as the dashboard: clip minutes (60 on Lite, 360 on Starter, 1,400 on Pro), renders (1,000, 2,000 and 4,000) and kept videos (20, 100 and 500). A video counts as kept the first time it is downloaded in the Prolifik app, scheduled or posted; the Zapier app's download links do not count. Enterprise has no cap on clip minutes or renders. When an allowance runs out, the step fails with a message that names it.
• Rate limits. Each API key gets 120 requests a minute. Create Clips allows 10 jobs a minute per key and 30 an hour across the account, Create Videos 5 jobs a minute, and Add Content Source 10 pages a minute. When Prolifik asks Zapier to slow down, Zapier holds the step and retries it by itself.
• Download links expire. Video Download URL works for at most 1 hour on a video and 12 hours on a clip. Prolifik reuses a recently signed link, so the one a trigger hands over can have much less time left. Download or upload the file in the next step of the same Zap run. A Delay step in between, or replaying an old run, can hand that step a dead link.
• Unused videos are deleted after 14 days. A video from a Create Videos job that is never scheduled, posted or downloaded in the Prolifik app is deleted 14 days after it was made. Copies your Zaps saved elsewhere stay where they are.
• A retried post goes out once. Every write from the Zapier app carries an idempotency key built from the step's inputs. For Publish Video and Publish Clip, the same video or clip, to the same accounts, at the same time (and for a video, with the same caption) returns the first post for 24 hours, from any Zap connected with the same API key. To post it again on purpose within a day, change the scheduled time or a video's caption, or retry the failed post in Prolifik.
• Jobs repeat only within the hour. For Create Clips, Create Videos and Add Content Source, the key also includes the Zap and the clock hour in UTC. A retry in the same hour gets the first job back, but a retry or replay after the hour turns over can start a second job and spend clip minutes or renders again. Two runs of one Zap with identical inputs in the same hour get one job, so map at least one field from the trigger, or schedule the Zap no more than once an hour.
• What New Clip can miss. Each check looks at clip jobs that finished in the last two hours, and opens at most 25 of them. If the Zap is off for longer than two hours, clips that finished in the gap never trigger it, and if more than 25 jobs finish between two checks, the oldest ones are skipped. Turning a Zap on does not replay older clips either.

Troubleshooting

• "Your Prolifik API key is invalid, expired or revoked." Zapier also marks the connection as expired. Create a new key in Settings > Developer API, then reconnect Prolifik in Zapier's list of app connections and paste the new key.
• A step fails because the key is missing a scope (403). The message names the scopes to tick. It is usually publish:write on a Publish Video or Publish Clip step. Create a key with all five scopes and reconnect.
• A step fails with a plan or allowance message and a pricing link (402). Either the account has no active paid plan, an allowance such as clip minutes or renders is used up, or the brand is locked by your plan. The message says which. Pick a plan, or wait for the monthly reset.
• "A content job for this format is already running." Only one Create Videos job per format runs at a time. Wait for it to finish, use another format, or let Autoreplay run the step again later.
• "Content source is not ready yet." Create Videos ran before Prolifik finished reading the page. Put a Delay of a few minutes after Add Content Source. If the delay is already there, open the source in Prolifik to see whether the page could be read at all.
• "This content piece is already scheduled or publishing." The video already has a post waiting to go out. Edit or cancel that post in Prolifik, or wait until it is published.
• "That social account is not connected to the brand you picked, or the brand is locked by your plan." This comes from Publish Clip. Pick one of that brand's accounts or leave Brand empty. If the account is right, your plan covers fewer brands than you have and this one is locked: pick a plan with more brands.
• Testing a trigger finds nothing. Zapier tests New Clip and New Video with your most recent clips and videos. Finish a clip job or a video in Prolifik first, then test again.
• The account dropdown lists every brand's accounts. That happens when Brand is mapped from an earlier step, such as Find Brand, because Zapier cannot filter the list before the Zap runs. Pick the account you want; Prolifik checks that it belongs to the brand when the step runs.
• The Zap ran but nothing was posted. A Publish step queues the post, which goes out a moment later or at the scheduled time. If it fails at that point, Prolifik shows the reason on the post. An expired social login is the usual cause: reconnect the account in Settings > Social media accounts (see Social accounts), then retry.

Where to get help

• Problems with a Zap go to Zapier first. For a Zap that will not turn on, the Zap editor, Zap history, task usage or your Zapier plan, contact Zapier support.
• Problems with Prolifik come to us. For API keys, plan limits, a clip or video that failed, or a post that did not go out, email info@getprolifik.com with the step name, the time it ran and the error text.
• When the Zapier app is not enough. The REST API reference covers every endpoint, AI Studio and cloning included. To work with Prolifik from Claude, ChatGPT or Codex, connect the Prolifik MCP server. Zapier also offers Prolifik's actions to AI assistants through Zapier MCP.