CINCEL API Authentication

How to authenticate CINCEL API requests: one Bearer API key plus a connectionId. MindCloud handles CINCEL's custom auth scheme for you.

Every CINCEL API request through MindCloud needs two things: a MindCloud API Key and a connectionId for your CINCEL 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 CINCEL connection in Connections. CINCEL uses its own authentication scheme. You provide whatever it requires when you create the connection — MindCloud handles the provider-specific details for you.
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 CINCEL account that should run the action. MindCloud stores and refreshes the CINCEL 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 User Teams with an CINCEL connection looks like this:

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

Get a CINCEL JWT

Use the CINCEL account details stored in the 1Password item named CINCEL. You will need the operating email, and you must complete the OTP exchange each session before connecting.

Request a one-time password
Send GET https://api.cincel.digital/v3/tokens/otp with Basic auth using the operating email as the username and a blank password.
Copy the OTP from the email
Open the email sent by CINCEL and copy the current OTP before it expires.
Exchange the OTP for a JWT
Send GET https://api.cincel.digital/v3/tokens/jwt with Basic auth using the same email as the username and the OTP as the password.
Paste the JWT into MindCloud
Return to this connection and paste the JWT into the JWT 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.