Sign inGet started
Docs
Get started

Wistia API Authentication

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

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

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

Set up your Wistia API token

You need a Wistia account with permission to create API access tokens.

  1. Open Wistia's API token instructions

    Review Wistia's official API token guidance, then open your Wistia account's API access page to create a token.

  2. Create a token with the permissions you need

    At minimum, grant read access to the Wistia data you want to use. If you later want to run write actions, create a token that also includes the matching update or delete permissions in Wistia.

  3. Copy the token into MindCloud

    Paste the token 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.