ActiveTrail API Authentication

How to authenticate ActiveTrail API requests: one Bearer API key plus a connectionId. MindCloud stores your API key securely — set it once, never resend it.

Every ActiveTrail API request through MindCloud needs two things: a MindCloud API Key and a connectionId for your ActiveTrail account. This page covers both, plus exactly how to send them, so you do not need to visit any other page to get authenticated.

Steps to authenticate

Create a MindCloud account at app.mindcloud.co if you do not already have one.
Generate a MindCloud API Key in API Keys. This is the Bearer token you send on every request. Keep it on your server.
Create a ActiveTrail connection in Connections. ActiveTrail uses an API key. You generate the key in your ActiveTrail account, then paste it in when you create the connection — MindCloud stores it securely and never returns it in a response.
Copy the connection’s connectionId — you will send it on every request alongside your MindCloud API Key.

How requests are authenticated

Authentication has two layers. Your MindCloud API Key authenticates the request to MindCloud, sent as a Bearer token in the Authorization header. The connectionId selects the connected ActiveTrail account that should run the action. MindCloud stores and refreshes the ActiveTrail credentials behind that connection, so you never send provider tokens with your requests.

Pass connectionId in the query string for GET and DELETE actions, and in the JSON body for POST, PUT, and PATCH actions.

For example, calling List Campaigns with an ActiveTrail connection looks like this:

curl --request POST \
  --url "https://connect.mindcloud.co/v2/universal/apps/activeTrail/actions/list-campaigns/run" \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $MINDCLOUD_API_KEY" \
  --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data '{
  "connectionId": "$CONNECTION_ID",
  "arguments": {}
}'

The Authorization: Bearer <your MindCloud API Key> header authenticates you to MindCloud; the connectionId tells MindCloud which ActiveTrail account to run the action against. Missing or invalid Authorization returns 401, and a missing or mismatched connectionId returns 400.

Generate an ActiveTrail API token

You need an ActiveTrail account with access to Integrations settings.

Sign in to ActiveTrail
Open your ActiveTrail account and go to the main application.
ActiveTrail Login
Open the API Apps settings
From the top-right menu, go to More, then Integrations, then API, and open the Apps tab.
More → Integrations → API → Apps
Create a new access token
Click New, enter the details for the API app, and save it to generate a token.
Copy the token now
Copy the access token and store it somewhere safe. ActiveTrail notes that the key will not be shown again after this step.

Keep your key safe

Keep your MindCloud API Key on your server; do not ship it in browser code, mobile apps, public repositories, or logs. Anyone with the key can call the Universal API as your MindCloud account, across every connection you have created.