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Oneflow API Authentication

How to authenticate Oneflow API requests: one Bearer API key plus a connectionId. MindCloud handles Oneflow's custom auth scheme for you.

Every Oneflow API request through MindCloud needs two things: a MindCloud API Key and a connectionId for your Oneflow 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 Oneflow connection in Connections. Oneflow uses its own authentication scheme. You provide whatever it requires when you create the connection — MindCloud handles the provider-specific details for you.
  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 Oneflow account that should run the action. MindCloud stores and refreshes the Oneflow 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 List Workspaces with an Oneflow connection looks like this:

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

Connect Oneflow with an API token

You need a Oneflow account with API tokens enabled on your plan.

  1. Sign in to Oneflow

    Open the Oneflow web app and sign in with the account you want this connection to use.

  2. Generate an API token

    In Oneflow, open Marketplace, click API tokens, then choose Generate a new token. Give the token a name and confirm.

  3. Save the API token

    Copy the token and store it in a secure place. You will paste it into the MindCloud connection form.

  4. Use your Oneflow user email

    Enter the email address of the Oneflow user account that should authorize requests. Oneflow uses this email for authorization checks on many create and update requests.

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.