REST API Developer Guide

Introducing Lightning Platform REST API
Quick Start
Prerequisites
Step One: Obtain a Salesforce Developer Edition Organization
Step Two: Set Up Authorization
Step Three: Send HTTP Requests with cURL
Step Four: Walk Through the Sample Code
Using Workbench
Examples
Reference
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Using Workbench

Use the Workbench tool to obtain data about your organization.
If you don’t want to use CURL, you can use the Workbench REST explorer to obtain response data.
  1. Log in to your organization.
  2. Open a new browser tab and navigate to https://workbench.developerforce.com/login.php .
  3. Log in to Workbench and allow access to your organization. Workbench is a public site and won’t retain your data.
  4. Click Utilities | REST Explorer.
  5. Ensure that Get is selected. The Execute text box is prepopulated with a portion of a resource path. Add the remaining information for your resource. For example, if your cURL syntax is 
    1https://yourInstance.salesforce.com/services/data/v50.0/sobjects/EventLogFile/describe -H "Authorization: Bearer token"
    type 
    1/services/data/v50.0/sobjects/EventLogFile/describe.
  6. Click Execute.
  7. Click Expand All or Show Raw Response to view your data.

If you receive a “Service not found” message, verify your resource path.

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