iContact API Authentication
How to authenticate iContact API requests: one Bearer API key plus a connectionId. MindCloud handles iContact's custom auth scheme for you.
Every iContact API request through MindCloud needs two things: a MindCloud API Key and a connectionId for your iContact 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 iContact connection in Connections. iContact 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 iContact account that should run the action. MindCloud stores and refreshes the iContact 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 with an iContact connection looks like this:
The Authorization: Bearer <your MindCloud API Key> header authenticates you to MindCloud; the connectionId tells MindCloud which iContact account to run the action against. Missing or invalid Authorization returns 401, and a missing or mismatched connectionId returns 400.
Set up iContact credentials
You need an iContact account with access to create a custom API integration.
- Open the API key setup article
Use the official iContact instructions for creating and managing API keys.
Help → Create and Manage API Keys - Create a custom API integration
In iContact Integrations, create a custom API integration for MindCloud.
- Copy the integration credentials
Open View Details and copy the App ID, Username, and Password values for the integration.
- Copy the account path values
From the API URL shown in iContact, copy the account ID and client folder ID segments.
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.