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JotUrl API Authentication

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

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

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

Generate a JotUrl bearer token

You need a JotUrl account, access to the account email used to sign in to JotUrl, and either an existing bearer token or a technical admin who can generate one from JotUrl's documented authentication flow.

  1. Open JotUrl API credentials

    Sign in to JotUrl and confirm you can access your API keys. JotUrl's API docs refer to the API Keys page as the place where the public and private keys live.

    JotUrl Dashboard → Settings → API Keys
  2. Generate a bearer token

    Use JotUrl's token authentication flow to create a bearer token. The official docs require a session login first, then a call to the token endpoint. This step needs the account email in addition to the public and private API keys.

    JotUrl API Reference → Authentication → Token authentication
  3. Paste the bearer token into this connection

    Return to MindCloud and paste the JotUrl bearer token into the API key field for this connection.

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.