REST API Developer Guide

Introduction to REST API
Quick Start
Examples
Getting Information About My Organization
Working with Object Metadata
Get Metadata for an Object
Get Field and Other Metadata for an Object
Get Object Metadata Changes
Working with Records
Delete Lightning Experience Event Series
Working with Searches and Queries
Get an Image from a Rich Text Area Field
Insert or Update Blob Data
Get Blob Data
Working with Recently Viewed Information
Managing User Passwords
Working with Approval Processes and Process Rules
Using Event Monitoring
Using Composite Resources
Generating an OpenAPI 3.0 Document for sObjects REST API (Beta)
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Get Metadata for an Object

Use the sObject Basic Information resource to get metadata for an object.
Example for getting Account metadata
Example request body for getting Account metadata
none required
Example response body for getting Account metadata

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