Retrieve Metadata for an Object

Example for retrieving Account metadata

1curl https://yourInstance.salesforce.com/services/data/v20.0/sobjects/Account/ -H "Authorization: Bearer token"

Example request body for retrieving Account metadata

none required

Example response body for retrieving Account metadata

1{
2  "objectDescribe" :
3  {
4    "name" : "Account",
5    "updateable" : true,
6    "label" : "Account",
7    "keyPrefix" : "001",
8
9    ...
10
11    "replicateable" : true,
12    "retrieveable" : true,
13    "undeletable" : true,
14    "triggerable" : true
15  },
16  "recentItems" :
17  [
18    {
19      "attributes" :
20      {
21        "type" : "Account",
22        "url" : "/services/data/v20.0/sobjects/Account/001D000000INjVeIAL"
23      },
24      "Id" : "001D000000INjVeIAL",
25      "Name" : "asdasdasd"
26    },
27
28    ...
29
30  ]
31}

To get a complete description of an object, including field names and their metadata, see Get a List of Objects.