Salesforce Reports and Dashboards REST API Developer Guide

Overview
Examples
Reports Examples
Create a New Report
Run Reports Synchronously or Asynchronously
Get Report Metadata
Get a List of Report Types
Download Formatted Excel Reports Using the Reports REST API
List Asynchronous Runs of a Report
Filter Reports on Demand
List Recently Viewed Reports
Decode the Fact Map
Get Report Data without Saving Changes to or Creating a Report
Save Changes to Reports
Clone Reports
Delete Reports
Dashboards Examples
Notifications Examples
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Get Report Data without Saving Changes to or Creating a Report

Run a report without creating a report or changing an existing one by making a POST request to the query resource. Get report data without filling up your org with unnecessary reports.

Example

Get report data using the query resource.

Include report criteria as reportMetadata in the POST request body. This POST request gets data about Opportunities:

The response to the POST request returns report data, but doesn’t create or save a report.