AnyDB API Authentication

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

Every AnyDB API request through MindCloud needs two things: a MindCloud API Key and a connectionId for your AnyDB 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 AnyDB connection in Connections. AnyDB uses an API key. You generate the key in your AnyDB 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 AnyDB account that should run the action. MindCloud stores and refreshes the AnyDB 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 Validate API Key And Email with an AnyDB connection looks like this:

curl --request POST \
  --url "https://connect.mindcloud.co/v2/universal/apps/anyDB/actions/validate-api-key-and-email/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 AnyDB account to run the action against. Missing or invalid Authorization returns 401, and a missing or mismatched connectionId returns 400.

Connect your AnyDB account

You need an AnyDB API key and the corresponding account email before you connect MindCloud.

Get your AnyDB API key
Open your AnyDB profile dialog and copy the API integration key for the user who will connect MindCloud. The official AnyDB integration docs say the API key is retrieved from the profile dialog.
Enter the API key and account email
In the MindCloud AnyDB connection form, paste the API key and enter the same email address used for that AnyDB account. The current AnyDB OpenAPI contract requires both x-anydb-api-key and x-anydb-email on authenticated requests.
Run the connection test
Run the AnyDB connection test to call Validate API Key And Email.

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.