Salesforce Sales Cloud Change Events API

Change event metadata and schema operations

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OpenAPI Specification

salesforce-sales-cloud-change-events-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Salesforce Sales Cloud Salesforce Analytics REST Change Events API
  description: Access Salesforce reports, dashboards, and analytics data programmatically. Enables embedding analytics into custom applications, automating report generation, running reports synchronously or asynchronously, and managing dashboard components and filters.
  version: 59.0.0
  termsOfService: https://www.salesforce.com/company/legal/agreements/
  contact:
    name: Salesforce Developer Support
    url: https://developer.salesforce.com/
  license:
    name: Salesforce Master Subscription Agreement
    url: https://www.salesforce.com/company/legal/agreements/
servers:
- url: https://{instance}.salesforce.com/services/data/v59.0/analytics
  description: Salesforce Production or Developer Edition
  variables:
    instance:
      default: yourInstance
      description: Your Salesforce instance identifier
security:
- oauth2: []
- bearerAuth: []
tags:
- name: Change Events
  description: Change event metadata and schema operations
paths:
  /sobjects/{changeEventName}:
    get:
      operationId: describeChangeEvent
      summary: Salesforce Sales Cloud Describe a change event object
      description: Retrieves metadata about a change event object. For standard objects, the change event name follows the pattern {ObjectName}ChangeEvent (e.g., AccountChangeEvent). For custom objects, the pattern is {ObjectName}__ChangeEvent.
      tags:
      - Change Events
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/changeEventName'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successfully retrieved change event metadata
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  objectDescribe:
                    type: object
                    properties:
                      name:
                        type: string
                      label:
                        type: string
                      fields:
                        type: array
                        items:
                          type: object
                          properties:
                            name:
                              type: string
                            label:
                              type: string
                            type:
                              type: string
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
  /sobjects/{changeEventName}/describe:
    get:
      operationId: describeChangeEventFull
      summary: Salesforce Sales Cloud Get full change event metadata
      description: Returns complete metadata for a change event type including all header and changed fields. The change event header contains the changeType (CREATE, UPDATE, DELETE, UNDELETE), changedFields, commitTimestamp, transactionKey, and other metadata.
      tags:
      - Change Events
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/changeEventName'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successfully retrieved full metadata
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
components:
  responses:
    Unauthorized:
      description: Authentication failed
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
    NotFound:
      description: Resource not found
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
  schemas:
    ErrorResponse:
      type: array
      items:
        $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiError'
    ApiError:
      type: object
      properties:
        errorCode:
          type: string
        message:
          type: string
  parameters:
    changeEventName:
      name: changeEventName
      in: path
      required: true
      description: The change event API name (e.g., AccountChangeEvent for Account, Contact__ChangeEvent for a custom object)
      schema:
        type: string
      examples:
        account:
          value: AccountChangeEvent
          summary: Account change events
        contact:
          value: ContactChangeEvent
          summary: Contact change events
        opportunity:
          value: OpportunityChangeEvent
          summary: Opportunity change events
        lead:
          value: LeadChangeEvent
          summary: Lead change events
  securitySchemes:
    oauth2:
      type: oauth2
      description: Salesforce OAuth 2.0 authentication
      flows:
        authorizationCode:
          authorizationUrl: https://login.salesforce.com/services/oauth2/authorize
          tokenUrl: https://login.salesforce.com/services/oauth2/token
          scopes:
            api: Access and manage your Salesforce data
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: OAuth 2.0 Access Token
externalDocs:
  description: Salesforce Reports and Dashboards REST API Developer Guide
  url: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_analytics.meta/api_analytics/sforce_analytics_rest_api_intro.htm