Needle Integration — Automate Needle with AI on Beauto
Needle provides retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) tools that enable semantic search across your data, facilitating the development of AI agents and applications.
Category: artificial intelligence, developer tools · 16 actions available
What you can automate with Needle
Beauto connects Needle with 900+ other apps so you can build AI-powered workflows in minutes. Trigger automations from Needle events, enrich Needle data with AI, or sync Needle with the rest of your stack — without writing code.
- Sync Needle data with Gmail, Slack, Notion, HubSpot, Google Sheets, and more
- Trigger AI agents on new Needle events and route the output anywhere
- Schedule recurring Needle tasks — daily reports, cleanups, or bulk updates
- Use natural language to describe the workflow; Beauto builds it for you
Needle actions Beauto supports
- Add files to a collection — Tool to add files to a collection by providing file URLs. Use when you need to add one or more files to an existing collection. URLs can be public or private (generated via the Files API).
- Add Files to Local Connector — Tool to add files to a local connector by providing file metadata. Use when you need to add external files to a connector using their URLs.
- Create Collection — Tool to create a new collection. Use after confirming the collection name.
- Create Local Connector — Tool to create a local connector that monitors specified folders on a device. Use when setting up file indexing from a local machine into Needle collections.
- Delete files from a collection — Tool to delete files from a specific collection by providing file IDs. Use after confirming valid file IDs to remove from the collection.
- Delete files from local connector — Tool to delete files from a local connector by filename or file IDs. Use when you need to remove files from a connector's local storage.
- Get Collection — Tool to retrieve details for a specific collection by its ID. Use when you need to get collection metadata including name, creation date, and search query count.
- Get collection stats — Tool to retrieve statistics for a specific collection by its ID. Use when you need document count, index size, and timestamps after confirming the collection exists. Zero document count is a valid response for empty coll
- Get File Download URL — Tool to get a short-lived signed private download URL for a Needle file. Use when you need to retrieve file content but the public storage URL requires authentication. The returned URL should be used immediately as it ex
- Get File Upload URL — Tool to get signed URLs for uploading local files to Needle. Use when you need to upload files to a collection. The upload URLs are valid for a short time, so upload files immediately after receiving the URLs. Multiple c
- Get local connector — Tool to retrieve details of a local connector by its ID. Use when you need information about a specific local connector's configuration, device details, and associated folders.
- List Collection Files — Tool to list all files within a specific collection by its ID. Returns file metadata (including file URLs) only — not document text content; fetch file URLs separately to access content. Use when you have a collection ID
- List Collections — Tool to list collections. Use after authenticating with your API key to page through collections. Similar collection names can exist; always verify the correct `collection_id` from results before performing subsequent op
- List Connectors — Tool to list connectors. Use to retrieve all configured connectors in your account.
- List Local Connectors — Tool to list local connectors. Use to retrieve all local connectors configured in your Needle account.
- Search Collection — Tool to perform semantic search within a specific Needle collection and return ranked results with source references. Use when you need to retrieve relevant content from a known collection using natural language queries.