Dealfront API Authentication

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

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

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

Connect Dealfront

You need a Leadfeeder Trial or Premium account before you can generate an API token.

Open Leadfeeder API Tokens
Sign in to Leadfeeder and open the API Tokens page in your personal settings.
Settings → Personal → API Tokens
Generate or copy an API token
Create a new token if needed, or copy an existing token that should be used for this MindCloud connection.
Paste the token into MindCloud
Return to this connection form and paste the token into the API 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.