Livestorm API Authentication

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

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

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

Get a Livestorm API token

You need a Livestorm workspace where Public API access has been enabled. Only workspace owners and admins can create or rotate tokens.

Sign in to Livestorm as a workspace owner or admin
Use the workspace that will back this MindCloud connection.
Livestorm app
Enable Public API access if the Public API panel is missing
If your workspace has not been validated for API access yet, contact Livestorm support and ask them to enable Public API for the workspace.
Public API panel guide
Open Livestorm's API token instructions
Follow Livestorm's token guide and go to Public API > Token management.
API token authentication
Create a token with the scopes you need
For the initial read-only connection, include the scopes needed for events and people reads. Add write scopes only when you intentionally want live mutation support later.
Paste the token into MindCloud
Use the copied value as the Livestorm app connection in MindCloud, and save it before leaving Livestorm because the token will not be shown again.

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.