Connect your app to KLIPY
You can connect your Lovable app to KLIPY to easily add features like searching for GIFs, stickers, and short videos, or creating AI emojis. This connection works for both your building process and your finished app.
Anyone building an app that needs to include dynamic media like GIFs, stickers, or AI-generated emojis will need this.
Do this, in order
- 1
Go to 'Connectors' in your Lovable dashboard and select 'KLIPY'.
This is where you manage all external services your app can connect to.
- 2
Click 'Add connection'.
This starts the process of setting up a new link to KLIPY.
- 3
Give your connection a clear name, like 'KLIPY Prod'.
A good name helps you identify this specific connection later, especially if you have multiple.
- 4
Choose how you want to connect: 'Managed by Lovable' for the fastest setup without needing your own KLIPY account, or 'Use your own credentials' if you have a KLIPY API key and want full control.
This determines who manages the KLIPY account and billing. 'Managed by Lovable' is simpler, while 'Use your own credentials' gives you more control over usage and limits.
- 5
If you chose 'Use your own credentials', paste your KLIPY API key into the 'API key' field.
This key is like a password that allows Lovable to access KLIPY on your behalf.
- 6
Decide who in your workspace can use this connection. For 'Managed by Lovable', it's shared by default, but you can restrict it. For 'Use your own credentials', it's private by default, but you can share it.
This controls access to the KLIPY features within your Lovable workspace and projects.
- 7
Click 'Connect'.
This finalizes the connection setup, making KLIPY available for your projects.
- 8
In your project chat, ask Lovable to link this KLIPY connection to your current project.
Connecting KLIPY to your project makes its features available for you to use when building your app.
Paste this into your project
Connect my project to KLIPY so I can add a GIF picker to my chat app for users to search and send GIFs inline.
Words decoded
- API key
- A secret code that acts like a password, allowing one computer program to securely access services from another program.
- Workspace
- Your personal or team area within Lovable where you manage all your projects, connections, and settings.
- Connector
- A built-in tool in Lovable that lets your app talk to other online services, like KLIPY, without you needing to write complex code.
- Credentials
- Information used to prove your identity, like a username and password or an API key.
Where people get stuck
- Do not share your KLIPY API key publicly, as it functions like a password.
- Be aware that if you use your own KLIPY credentials, all media requests count towards your KLIPY account's limits and billing is handled directly by KLIPY.
- Remember that you can only create one 'Managed by Lovable' KLIPY connection per workspace.
- If you delete a KLIPY connection, features using it in linked projects will stop working until a new connection is added.
The short version, steps, decoder and prompt on this page are written automatically from Lovable's own documentation and can lag or misread it. The official page is always the authority.