AskHandle API Authentication

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

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

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

Connect AskHandle with an API key

You need an AskHandle username and password or an existing AskHandle API key.

Generate or retrieve your AskHandle API key
If you do not already have an API key, send a POST request to https://dashboard.askhandle.com/api/v1/auth/api-token with your AskHandle username and password as JSON. The response returns a token value you can use as your API key.
Paste the token into the MindCloud connection
Use the returned AskHandle token as the API Key value when creating the MindCloud connection.

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.