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Cronly API Authentication

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

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

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

Connect Cronly

You need access to the Cronly organization you want to connect and a valid Cronly API token.

  1. Get the Cronly API token

    Use the Cronly API token that was issued for the account or organization you want MindCloud to access.

  2. Open the MindCloud connection form

    Start a Cronly connection in MindCloud and choose the API-token authentication option.

  3. Paste the token

    Paste the Cronly API token into the MindCloud connection form and save the connection.

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.