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Contentful API Authentication

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

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

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

Create a Contentful personal access token

MindCloud uses a Contentful Content Management API personal access token for this build path. You need access to the Contentful account and space you want to use.

  1. Open Contentful

    Sign in to your Contentful account.

  2. Open CMA tokens

    In the Contentful web app, go to Settings > CMA tokens.

    Settings → CMA tokens

  3. Create a token

    Create a new personal access token, give it a recognizable name, and copy the token value immediately.

  4. Paste the token into MindCloud

    Return to the MindCloud Contentful connection form and paste the copied 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.