Streak API Authentication

How to authenticate Streak API requests: one Bearer API key plus a connectionId. MindCloud stores your Streak credentials — no auth headers to build.

Every Streak API request through MindCloud needs two things: a MindCloud API Key and a connectionId for your Streak 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 Streak connection in Connections. Streak uses a username and password. You enter them when you create the connection — MindCloud stores them securely so your requests never carry raw credentials.
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 Streak account that should run the action. MindCloud stores and refreshes the Streak 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 with an Streak connection looks like this:

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

Connect Streak with an API key

You need a Streak account with the Gmail extension installed and access to the account you want MindCloud to use.

Open Streak integrations in Gmail
Go to Gmail, click the Streak icon in the right sidebar, and open Integrations.
Gmail → Streak sidebar → Integrations
Create a Streak API key
In the Streak API section of the Integrations window, click Create New Key.
Enter the API key in MindCloud
Paste the Streak API key into the Username field. Because MindCloud requires a password field for Basic Auth and Streak allows third-party software to reuse the API key as the password, paste the same API key into Password as well.

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.