Metadata API Developer Guide
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Prerequisites
Complete these prerequisites before you start developing with Metadata API.
- To access Metadata API through the command line, install Salesforce CLI.
- To create a development environment, sign up for Salesforce Developer Edition. A Developer Edition org is a free development environment for building and testing solutions independent of production data.
- Install Salesforce Extensions for Visual Studio Code. These tools provide features for working with development orgs (scratch orgs, sandboxes, and DE orgs), Apex, Aura components, and Visualforce.
- Confirm that you have API Enabled permission and Modify Metadata Through Metadata API Functions permission or Modify All Data permission. If you don’t have these permissions set, modify your metadata permissions.
- Enable Dev Hub in your org. Dev Hub allows you to create and manage scratch orgs so that you can develop without affecting your production data or metadata.
- To allow access to protected resources such as production data and metadata, authorize your org .