Court Drive API Authentication

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

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

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

Connect CourtAPI

You need a CourtAPI account and your CourtAPI app_id and app_key.

Create or sign in to your CourtAPI account
CourtAPI offers a free Sandbox account for testing. Sign up if you do not already have an account.
CourtAPI → Sign Up
Open the CourtAPI API Playground
CourtAPI's live documentation and Swagger are behind sign-in. Open the API Playground after logging in.
CourtAPI → API Playground
Enter your credentials in MindCloud
Use your CourtAPI app_id as Username and your app_key as Password. CourtAPI documents this connection as HTTP Basic authentication.

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.