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Timely API Authentication

How to authenticate Timely API requests: one Bearer API key plus a connectionId. MindCloud runs the OAuth flow and refreshes Timely tokens for you.

Every Timely API request through MindCloud needs two things: a MindCloud API Key and a connectionId for your Timely 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 Timely connection in Connections. Timely uses OAuth. When you create the connection, you are redirected to sign in to Timely and approve access — MindCloud stores the resulting tokens and refreshes them automatically, so your integration never has to.
  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 Timely account that should run the action. MindCloud stores and refreshes the Timely 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 Token Info with an Timely connection looks like this:

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

Connect Timely

You need Timely admin access for the workspace you want to connect.

  1. Open Timely OAuth applications

    Timely’s developer docs say OAuth applications are managed at the workspace-specific OAuth applications page. Replace {account_id} with your Timely workspace ID before opening the page.

    OAuth Applications
  2. Register the MindCloud callback URL

    Create or edit the Timely OAuth application and set its redirect URI to the MindCloud Timely callback URL.

  3. Copy the client ID and client secret

    Save the Timely OAuth application credentials. You will use them to finish the MindCloud connection setup.

  4. Keep your Timely workspace ID handy

    Most Timely API actions require the workspace account_id in the request path. Timely’s docs describe this as the workspace identifier used throughout the API.

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.