Connect Trello

≈ 3 min Extension Basic Auth

Before you start

• A Trello account. Trello may ask you to create a Power-Up to get an API key.
• The AWFlow browser extension. These steps run in the extension (the web app hands them to it).

Used by

• Trello

Set it up

This is the only method. The token can act on all your boards.

1. Get the API key. Open trello.com/app-key while signed in. If Trello asks for a Power-Up, create one in its admin page; its API key tab shows the key. Copy it.

2. Get the token. Next to the key, follow the Token link, click Allow and copy the token.

3. Save it in AWFlow. Open Credentials and click Add Credential (or + Add Credential in a node’s Credential field), then fill the New Credential form. In the browser side panel the form comes in two steps: tap Trello in the list, then fill the rest.

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   1. 1 Step 1:Pick Trello Under Integration App / Service, pick Trello. There is no Auth Type menu: Trello uses Basic Auth, so the form shows Username and Password.
   2. 2 Step 2:Name it For example Trello – boards. A Description is optional.
   3. 3 Step 3:Paste the API key Put the API key in Username.
   4. 4 Step 4:Paste the token Put the token in Password.
   5. 5 Step 5:Check where it is saved Signed in, choose Local (this browser only) or Cloud (synced to your account) under Storage location. Without an account it is saved locally in this browser, as here.
   6. 6 Step 6:Click Create Credential Check: the credential is listed on the Credentials page, ready to pick in nodes.

   Numbered areas in the screenshot: 1. Integration App / Service: Trello; 2. Name; 3. Username; 4. Password; 5. Where the secret is stored (here, locally in this browser); 6. Create Credential.

Check it's connected — 

Run Board › List in a Trello node: your boards come back with their IDs.

Where your token lives

Where your token lives — 

The credential is stored where you choose when you create it:

• Local (this browser only): encrypted in this browser. The encryption key is kept on the same device, so turn on the local secret vault to lock it with a passphrase only you know.
• Cloud (synced to your account): sent over an encrypted connection and stored encrypted on AWFlow’s server, so it works on your other devices.

When a step runs, your browser sends it only to api.trello.com. AWFlow’s servers never relay the call.

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Common issues

• “Trello needs a Basic Auth credential with the API key in Username and the token in Password”. A field is empty, or the credential isn’t Basic Auth.
• “401 … the API key or token is invalid or expired”. The key and token don’t belong together, are swapped, or the token was revoked. Generate a new token next to your key.
• The run is blocked in the web app. Trello runs through the browser extension. Install the extension and allow Trello for this workflow when asked, or run the workflow from the extension. See Extension-only integrations in the web app.

Related

Trello node

All connections

Create and manage credentials

Privacy & your data