Jotform API Authentication

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

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

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

Create a Jotform API key

Jotform API keys inherit the permissions you assign when you create them. Choose read access or full access based on what MindCloud needs to do.

Open API settings in Jotform
In Jotform, click your avatar or profile image, choose Settings, and then open API from the left side of the settings page.
Avatar → Settings → API
Create the API key
Click Create New Key and give the new key a recognizable label.
Set the permission level
Choose Read Access if MindCloud only needs to view data, or Full Access if it must add, edit, or delete data through the API.
Copy the key and save it securely
Copy the new API key and store it somewhere secure.
Paste the key into MindCloud
Return to the MindCloud Jotform connection form and paste the copied key into the API key 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.