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Salesforce Sales Cloud SObject Describe API

Metadata description of sObjects

Salesforce Sales Cloud SObject Describe API is one of 52 APIs that Salesforce Sales Cloud publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include SObject Describe. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, authentication docs, a getting-started guide, a changelog, and an API reference.

This API exposes 2 operations across 2 paths, and defines 4 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 59.0.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://{instance}.salesforce.com/services/data/v59.0/analytics.

2 operations 2 paths 4 schemas 2 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.1.0
API Version
59.0.0
Base URL
https://yourInstance.salesforce.com/services/data/v59.0
Authentication
OAuth 2.0, HTTP Bearer
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 2

Salesforce Sales Cloud SObject Describe API declares 2 security schemes for authenticating requests. It supports OAuth 2.0 (oauth2) using the authorizationCode flow, exposing 1 scope. It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (OAuth 2.0 Access Token) (bearerAuth). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • oauth2 — Salesforce OAuth 2.0 authentication

Paths & Operations 2

Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 2 operations — 2 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

SObject Describe 2

Metadata description of sObjects

GET
/sobjects/{sObjectName}/describe
Salesforce Sales Cloud Describe an sObject
describeSObject 1 param → 200401404
GET
/sobjects/{sObjectName}/describe/layouts
Salesforce Sales Cloud Get sObject page layouts
getSObjectLayouts 1 param → 200401404

Schemas 4

The contract defines 4 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are FieldDescribe (56 properties), SObjectDescribe (33 properties), ApiError (3 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

FieldDescribe
object
Metadata description of a single field on an sObject
56 properties
SObjectDescribe
object
Full metadata description of an sObject including fields and relationships
33 properties
ErrorResponse
array
Standard Salesforce REST API error response
ApiError
object
An API error message
3 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

salesforce-sales-cloud-sobject-describe-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs Salesforce Sales Cloud publishes across the network.

Salesforce SOAP API
Metadata API
Streaming API
Platform Events API
Salesforce Composite API
Salesforce GraphQL API
Salesforce Pub/Sub API
Salesforce Sales Cloud Change Events API
Salesforce Sales Cloud Communities API
Salesforce Sales Cloud Completions API
Salesforce Sales Cloud Composite Batch API
Salesforce Sales Cloud Composite Graph API
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