Filestage API Authentication

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

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

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

Connect Filestage with an API key

You need a Filestage account that can open Team settings and access the API tab.

Open the API tab in Filestage
In Filestage, open Team settings and then open the API tab.
Team settings → API
Generate a new API key
Click the Generate API key button.
Save the API key somewhere secure
Copy the API key and store it in a secure place before closing the dialog.

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.