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Cryptolens API Authentication

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

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

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

Create a Cryptolens access token

You need a Cryptolens account that can sign in at app.cryptolens.io. The access token is shown only once when created, so keep 1Password open before you start.

  1. Sign in to Cryptolens

    Open the Cryptolens dashboard and sign in with your account.

    Dashboard login
  2. Open the Access Token page

    Go to the Access Token page where Cryptolens lets you create and manage Web API access tokens.

    Access Token page
  3. Create an access token for the Web API

    Create a token with the method permissions you plan to use. Cryptolens access tokens can also be limited to a specific product or key when needed.

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.