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CrowdPower API Authentication

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

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

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

Connect CrowdPower with a project secret key

You need access to the CrowdPower project you want this connection to operate against.

  1. Open CrowdPower settings

    CrowdPower’s Beacon API docs point to the Settings area for project keys.

    Settings
  2. Open API Keys

    The official API docs say your public, secret, and application keys are available on the API Keys page.

    Settings → API Keys
  3. Copy your Secret Key

    Use the project secret key for this connection. CrowdPower’s private Core API uses a Bearer token with the project secret key or an application key.

  4. Enter your Project ID

    CrowdPower’s API examples use a project-scoped path token named project_id for project resources. Enter the Project ID for the project whose secret key you copied.

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.