Salesforce describe API: pull object fields, URLs, and relationships as metadata
sObject Describe | Reference | REST API Developer Guide
REST reference for sObject Describe—full object metadata via GET, with conditional If-Modified-Since headers.
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sObject Describe | Reference | REST API Developer Guide | Salesforce Developers
The docs describe a GET resource at `/services/data/vXX.X/sobjects/sObject/describe/` that completely describes metadata for a specified object—for example Account fields, URLs, and child relationships. Formats are JSON and XML; authentication is a Bearer token. The required path parameter is the object name. Optional If-Modified-Since and If-Unmodified-Since headers take an HTTP-date; If-Modified-Since can return 304 Not Modified with an empty body when metadata has not changed. Related SOAP metadata is pointed to via DescribesObjectResult.
Integration and content teams that sync Salesforce shapes need a machine-readable inventory of fields and relationships rather than manual spreadsheets. Conditional headers keep polling cheap when schemas are stable.
Object describe results are a live schema surface: shared structure that agents and pipelines can read to align on what an Account (or any sObject) means in that org.
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