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Dashcam API Authentication

How to authenticate Dashcam API requests: one Bearer API key plus a connectionId. MindCloud handles Dashcam's custom auth scheme for you.

Every Dashcam API request through MindCloud needs two things: a MindCloud API Key and a connectionId for your Dashcam 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 Dashcam connection in Connections. Dashcam uses its own authentication scheme. You provide whatever it requires when you create the connection — MindCloud handles the provider-specific details for you.
  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 Dashcam account that should run the action. MindCloud stores and refreshes the Dashcam 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 Billing Usage with an Dashcam connection looks like this:

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

Create a Dashcam bearer token

You need a TestDriver team API key from the Team page in Dashcam. Dashcam runtime calls do not use the raw API key directly.

  1. Open your Team page

    Open the Dashcam team settings to confirm you have your team API key.

  2. Exchange the API key for a bearer token

    Run a POST request to https://api.testdriver.ai/auth/exchange-api-key with form field apiKey=<your_api_key>. Copy the token value from the JSON response.

  3. Paste the bearer token here

    Use the returned token as the only credential for this connection. Do not paste the raw API key into the Bearer Token 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.

Dashcam API Authentication - Universal API