APIs and Integration
Explore your options for integrating apps, systems, and data sources, including Apex, platform events, APIs, and no-code tools.
Documentation
Salesforce Help
Extend Your Org with Low-Code Tools
Learn how to use features like Salesforce Connect to work with data and services that are outside your Salesforce org.
Developer Guide
Integration and Apex Utilities
Use Apex to integrate with SOAP and REST APIs using callouts and utilities for JSON, XML, and data security.
Salesforce Help
Which API Do I Use?
Learn about the protocols, data formats, and communication types that are supported by each Salesforce API family.
Developer Guide
Integration Patterns and Practices
Determine which integration pattern best fits your requirements and find best practices in this document.
Salesforce Help
Connected Apps
Integrate an external app with Salesforce using APIs and standard protocols, such as SAML, OAuth, and OpenID Connect.
Salesforce Help
Single Sign-On
Set up your Salesforce org to authenticate users via an identity provider when signing in to the org or a third-party app.
Developer Guide
Platform Events
Connect business processes through the exchange of real-time event data between Salesforce and your external apps.
Developer Guide
Change Data Capture
Receive near-real-time changes of Salesforce records, and synchronize corresponding records in an external data store.
Developer Guide
Pub/Sub API
Publish or subscribe to platform events and change data capture events using a gRPC-based binary API and HTTP/2.
Developer Guide
REST API
Integrate, access, and operate on data with REST API. Make stateless synchronous requests against resources with HTTP verbs.
Developer Guide
SOAP API
Use SOAP API to access and operate on data. Make strongly-typed synchronous machine-to-machine requests with HTTP and XML.
Developer Guide
Bulk APIs
Asynchronously insert, upsert, query, or delete large data sets in your Salesforce org using the Bulk APIs.
Tools
Salesforce APIs for Postman
Access a Postman collection of 230+ request templates for Salesforce APIs.
Trailhead
Trail
Design Solutions with Salesforce APIs
Learn strategies to design and build scalable solutions with the right API.
Trail
Design Event-Driven Apps for Real-Time Integration
Design and build event-driven applications that trigger actions in real time.
Module
Application Integration Patterns for Salesforce Platform
Explore and analyze Salesforce Platform integration patterns.
Module
Apex Integration Services
Integrate with external apps using Apex REST and SOAP services.
Module
Salesforce & Heroku Integration
Learn the patterns and methodology of integrating apps on Heroku with Salesforce.
Code Samples
Getting Started with the Pub/Sub API
The Pub/Sub API provides a single interface for publishing and subscribing to platform events, including real-time event monitoring and change data capture events. This repo contains the critical proto file needed to use the API and links to code samples.
ECars
This app shows how Change Data Capture is used to build loosely coupled integrations using multiple languages and systems. It shows how microservices on Heroku integrate with Salesforce, and how data is streamed to Salesforce from Kafka via WebSockets.
Apex Recipes
This collection gives developers concise, meaningful examples of Apex code for common use cases following best practices. The Integration recipes show how to make callouts to external services and also expose an Apex class as a custom REST endpoint.
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