EasyCSV API Authentication

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

Every EasyCSV API request through MindCloud needs two things: a MindCloud API Key and a connectionId for your EasyCSV 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 EasyCSV connection in Connections. EasyCSV uses an API key. You generate the key in your EasyCSV account, then paste it in when you create the connection — MindCloud stores it securely and never returns it in a response.
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 EasyCSV account that should run the action. MindCloud stores and refreshes the EasyCSV 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 Generate CSV File with an EasyCSV connection looks like this:

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

Find your EasyCSV API key

You need an EasyCSV account. If you plan to use the sheet-import webhook action, make sure the target sheet already exists in EasyCSV.

Sign in to EasyCSV
Open EasyCSV in your browser and sign in to the account that owns the sheet or CSV generator you want to use.
Open Business Info
In EasyCSV, click Business Info to view account-level settings and credentials.
Copy your API key
Copy the API key shown on the Business Info page and paste it into this connection.
Prepare the provider-side webhook
For sheet imports, open the target EasyCSV sheet, go to the Sheet details page, enable Import sheets posted to API Webhook, and copy the webhook URL. For CSV generation, create a CSV Generator in EasyCSV and copy its webhook URL.

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.