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Mocean API API Authentication

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

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

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

Set up your Mocean API Token

Sign in to the Mocean dashboard account that owns the services you want MindCloud to access.

  1. Open the Mocean dashboard

    Sign in to the Mocean dashboard for the account you want to connect.

  2. Generate an API Token

    Go to API Account and choose Generate Token.

  3. Copy the token now

    Copy and store the API Token securely before leaving the page. Mocean shows the token only once.

  4. Enter the token in MindCloud

    Paste the 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.