Pastebin API Authentication

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

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

curl --request GET \
  --url "https://connect.mindcloud.co/v1/universal/pastebin/latest/actions/get-current-user-details" \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $MINDCLOUD_API_KEY" \
  --get \
  --data-urlencode "connectionId=$CONNECTION_ID"

The Authorization: Bearer <your MindCloud API Key> header authenticates you to MindCloud; the connectionId tells MindCloud which Pastebin account to run the action against. Missing or invalid Authorization returns 401, and a missing or mismatched connectionId returns 400.

Connect Pastebin

You need a Pastebin account login and your developer API key.

Sign in to Pastebin
Use your Pastebin account so you can access member features and your developer settings.
Login
Open the Developers API page
Review the official API docs and copy your developer API key.
API
Generate your user key
Use the documented API login request with your developer key, Pastebin username, and password. Save the returned api_user_key.
API
Enter both values in the connection form
Paste your developer API key into the Developer API key field and the generated api_user_key into the User 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.