Salesforce Metadata API

The Salesforce Metadata API enables you to retrieve, deploy, create, update, and delete customization information such as custom object definitions and page layouts for your organization. Used primarily by developer tools and CI/CD pipelines.

API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: salesforcecom:metadata-api
name: Salesforce Metadata API
description: The Salesforce Metadata API enables you to retrieve, deploy, create, update, and delete customization
  information such as custom object definitions and page layouts for your organization. Used primarily
  by developer tools and CI/CD pipelines.
humanURL: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_meta.meta/api_meta
tags:
- Metadata
- DevOps
- Configuration
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_meta.meta/api_meta