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InventoryBase API Authentication

How to authenticate InventoryBase API requests: one Bearer API key plus a connectionId. MindCloud runs the OAuth flow and refreshes tokens for you.

Every InventoryBase API request through MindCloud needs two things: a MindCloud API Key and a connectionId for your InventoryBase 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 InventoryBase connection in Connections. InventoryBase uses OAuth. When you create the connection, you are redirected to sign in to InventoryBase and approve access — MindCloud stores the resulting tokens and refreshes them automatically, so your integration never has to.
  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 InventoryBase account that should run the action. MindCloud stores and refreshes the InventoryBase 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 Current User with an InventoryBase connection looks like this:

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

How to set up your connection?

You need an InventoryBase account and an OAuth application whose Redirect URL exactly matches the redirect URL shown in the connection form.

  1. Sign in to your InventoryBase account

    Open your InventoryBase account so you can register an OAuth application for this connection.

    InventoryBase account
  2. Create an OAuth application

    Create a new application and enter the redirect URL shown in the connection form as the application's Redirect URL.

    InventoryBase account → Create application

  3. Copy the Client ID and Client Secret

    After the application is created, copy the Client ID and Client Secret into the connection form using the same labels.

  4. Finish the connection

    Submit the connection form and complete the InventoryBase consent screen.

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.