REST API Developer Guide
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Get Metadata for an Object
Get Field and Other Metadata for an Object
Get Object Metadata Changes
Delete Lightning Experience Event Series
Get an Image from a Rich Text Area Field
Insert or Update Blob Data
Get Blob Data
Generating an OpenAPI 3.0 Document for sObjects REST API (Beta)
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Working with Object Metadata
The examples in this section use REST API resources to retrieve object metadata
information. For modifying or creating object metadata information, see the Metadata API Developer
Guide.
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Get Metadata for an Object
Use the sObject Basic Information resource to get metadata for an object. -
Get Field and Other Metadata for an Object
Use the sObject Describe resource to retrieve all the metadata for an object, including information about each field, URLs, and child relationships. -
Get Object Metadata Changes
Use the sObject Describe resource and the If-Modified-Since HTTP header to determine if object metadata has changed.