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CATS API Authentication

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

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

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

Get your CATS API key

You need an admin-level CATS account for the MindCloud tenant. The CATS API docs state that v3 API keys are created from the Administration settings page.

  1. Sign in to CATS

    Sign in with the admin account for the MindCloud CATS tenant.

    Log In
  2. Open Administration settings

    From inside CATS, open the Administration area for your tenant and go to the settings page where API keys are managed.

    Administration → Settings

  3. Create a v3 API key

    Create a new v3 API key for MindCloud. The official docs say CATS v3 API keys are created from Administration settings.

  4. Copy the API key into MindCloud

    Paste the new key into the MindCloud connection as the API key value. CATS authenticates requests with the header format Authorization: Token <API key>.

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.