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TimelinesAI API Authentication

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

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

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

Connect TimelinesAI with a Public API token

You need access to the TimelinesAI workspace where the Public API token is managed.

  1. Open TimelinesAI Public API settings

    Sign in to TimelinesAI, open Integrations, then open Public API.

  2. Copy or generate a Public API token

    Create a token if needed, then copy the token value from the Public API page.

  3. Paste the token into the MindCloud connection

    Use the copied token as the connection secret for this app. MindCloud will send it as an Authorization Bearer token.

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.