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Booqable API Authentication

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

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

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

Connect Booqable with an API key

You need access to the Booqable account and permission to create authentication methods.

  1. Open User settings

    In Booqable, open User settings from the lower-left corner of the app.

  2. Create an API key

    Select Authentication methods, click New authentication method, choose API key, and create a key for MindCloud.

  3. Copy the generated key

    Copy the API key when it is shown and keep it secure. Booqable notes that API keys grant full account access.

  4. Use the key in MindCloud

    Enter your Booqable account URL, for example https://your-company.booqable.com, and paste the API key when configuring 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.