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Cakemail API Authentication

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

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

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

Create or provide a Cakemail access token

Cakemail API tokens are sensitive server-side credentials. Use an active access token from the Cakemail token endpoint or a token supplied by your administrator.

  1. Open Cakemail developer authentication docs

    Review the Cakemail API getting started guide for the token endpoint and supported bearer-token flow.

  2. Generate or retrieve an access token

    Create a token through the Cakemail API token endpoint or retrieve the access token your administrator prepared for this connection.

  3. Paste the token into MindCloud

    Return to the MindCloud Cakemail connection form and paste the access token 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.