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BrowserStack API Authentication

How to authenticate BrowserStack API requests: one Bearer API key plus a connectionId. MindCloud stores your credentials — no auth headers to build.

Every BrowserStack API request through MindCloud needs two things: a MindCloud API Key and a connectionId for your BrowserStack 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 BrowserStack connection in Connections. BrowserStack uses a username and password. You enter them when you create the connection — MindCloud stores them securely so your requests never carry raw credentials.
  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 BrowserStack account that should run the action. MindCloud stores and refreshes the BrowserStack 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 Get Automate Plan Details with an BrowserStack connection looks like this:

curl --request POST \
  --url "https://connect.mindcloud.co/v2/universal/apps/browserStack/actions/get-automate-plan-details/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 BrowserStack account to run the action against. Missing or invalid Authorization returns 401, and a missing or mismatched connectionId returns 400.

Set up BrowserStack Automate credentials

You need a BrowserStack account with access to Automate API credentials.

  1. Open the Automate Dashboard in BrowserStack

    Sign in to BrowserStack, then open the Automate Dashboard where BrowserStack exposes your API credentials.

    Automate Dashboard
  2. Copy your BrowserStack username

    From the Automate Dashboard or Account Settings, copy the BrowserStack username for the account you want to connect.

  3. Copy your BrowserStack access key

    From the same BrowserStack credentials view, copy the BrowserStack access key.

  4. Enter the credentials in MindCloud

    Create or edit the BrowserStack connection in MindCloud and paste the BrowserStack username into Username and the BrowserStack access key into Password.

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.