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Sendblue API Authentication

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

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

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

Connect Sendblue

You need a Sendblue account and permission to open the API settings page.

  1. Open the Sendblue API settings page

    Sign in to the Sendblue dashboard and open the API settings page where Sendblue generates your API credentials.

    Dashboard → Settings → API
  2. Copy your Sendblue API credentials

    Copy both values shown by Sendblue: the API Key and the Secret Key.

  3. Fill the MindCloud connection fields

    Paste the Sendblue Secret Key into the MindCloud API Key field. Paste the Sendblue API Key into the API Key ID 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.