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Productboard API Authentication

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

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

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

Connect Productboard with an API token

You need a Productboard account admin who can access your workspace integrations settings.

  1. Open Productboard integrations

    In your Productboard workspace, ask an account admin to open the Integrations area where Productboard exposes developer and public API access tokens.

  2. Copy a Productboard API access token

    Create a new token if needed, or copy an existing public API access token that is allowed to call the Productboard REST API.

  3. Paste the token into MindCloud

    Back in MindCloud, paste the token into the API Key field when creating the connection for this app.

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.