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AirPinpoint API Authentication

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

Every AirPinpoint API request through MindCloud needs two things: a MindCloud API Key and a connectionId for your AirPinpoint 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

  1. Create a MindCloud account at app.mindcloud.co if you do not already have one.
  2. Generate a MindCloud API Key in API Keys. This is the Bearer token you send on every request. Keep it on your server.
  3. Create a AirPinpoint connection in Connections. AirPinpoint uses an API key. You generate the key in your AirPinpoint account, then paste it in when you create the connection — MindCloud stores it securely and never returns it in a response.
  4. 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 AirPinpoint account that should run the action. MindCloud stores and refreshes the AirPinpoint 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 Trackables with an AirPinpoint connection looks like this:

curl --request POST \
  --url "https://connect.mindcloud.co/v2/universal/apps/airPinpoint/actions/list-trackables/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 AirPinpoint account to run the action against. Missing or invalid Authorization returns 401, and a missing or mismatched connectionId returns 400.

Connect AirPinpoint with an API key

You need an AirPinpoint account with API access and at least one linked trackable if you want to validate detail or geofence actions.

  1. Open AirPinpoint dashboard settings

    Sign in to AirPinpoint, then open the API key section in your dashboard settings.

  2. Create or copy an API key

    Generate a key for this workspace or copy an existing tenant key that has access to the trackables you want to use.

  3. Paste the API key into MindCloud

    Create the connection in MindCloud and paste the AirPinpoint API key into the API key field.

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.