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Taskworld API Authentication

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

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

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

Get your Taskworld access token

Use a Taskworld account with API access and confirm your workspace region.

  1. Choose your Taskworld API region

    Taskworld exposes different API hosts by region (US, Asia, Europe). Use the host that matches your workspace.

    Taskworld API Docs → Introduction
  2. Request an access token

    Call POST /v1/auth on your region host with your Taskworld email and password. Include client_id and client_secret only if Taskworld provided them.

    Taskworld API Docs → Authentication → Authenticate a user
  3. Paste access_token as API Key in MindCloud

    Copy the access_token value and paste it into the API Key field for this connection.

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.