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Simplicate API Authentication

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

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

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

Create your Simplicate API credentials

You need a Simplicate account that can create API tokens for the data you want MindCloud to access.

  1. Sign in to your Simplicate environment

    Open your Simplicate environment and sign in with the user whose permissions should apply to the API token.

  2. Open the API settings

    In Simplicate, go to the general settings area and open the API section, then start creating a new API token.

  3. Create one API token pair

    Create one API key pair for the correct user and keep the secret available while you finish the connection. Each token inherits the permissions of the user it was created for.

  4. Enter the connection values in MindCloud

    Use the company part of your Simplicate URL as the subdomain, then enter the API Key and API Secret in the connection form.

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.