Salesforce Sales Cloud

Metadata API

API for retrieving, deploying, creating, updating, or deleting customization information such as custom object definitions and page layouts. Essential for managing org configuration and deployment workflows.

GitHub

Documentation

📖
Documentation
https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_meta.meta/api_meta/meta_intro.htm

Other Resources

🔗
WSDL
https://yourInstance.salesforce.com/services/wsdl/metadata
🔗
ChangeLog
https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_meta.meta/api_meta/meta_rns.htm

API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
name: Metadata API
description: API for retrieving, deploying, creating, updating, or deleting customization information
  such as custom object definitions and page layouts. Essential for managing org configuration and deployment
  workflows.
humanURL: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_meta.meta/api_meta/
baseURL: https://yourInstance.salesforce.com/services/Soap/m/59.0
tags:
- Configuration
- Customization
- Deployment
- Metadata
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_meta.meta/api_meta/meta_intro.htm
- type: WSDL
  url: https://yourInstance.salesforce.com/services/wsdl/metadata
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_meta.meta/api_meta/meta_rns.htm