# Salesforce Automation

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/salesforce-automation/  
**Website:** https://www.salesforce.com  
**APIs profiled:** 42

A collection of Salesforce APIs for automating business processes, sales operations, and customer relationship management.

## Kin Score — 51.4 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.5 from 50.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 66.7 |
| Contract Quality | 70.4 |
| Governance | 28.8 |
| Contract Governance | 28.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 50.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 51.3 |
| Access Clarity | 51.3 |

## Agent readiness — 30.6 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | documented |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Enterprise · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: enterprise, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (42)

- **Salesforce SOAP API** — Enterprise-grade SOAP API for complex integrations and bulk operations.
- **Salesforce Metadata API** — API for managing customizations and building tools for application lifecycle management.
- **Salesforce Pub/Sub API** — gRPC-based API for publishing and subscribing to platform events, change data capture events, and custom channels in real time.
- **Salesforce GraphQL API** — GraphQL API for querying Salesforce data with a single endpoint, reducing round trips and improving application performance.
- **Salesforce Automation Actions API** — Action type discovery
- **Salesforce Automation Approvals API** — Approval process management and submissions
- **Salesforce Automation Batch API** — Independent subrequests in a single call
- **Salesforce Automation Change Events API** — Change Data Capture event metadata and schema
- **Salesforce Automation Comments API** — Comments on feed elements
- **Salesforce Automation Composite API** — Sequential subrequests with reference ID support
- **Salesforce Automation Configuration API** — CDC configuration and enabled entities
- **Salesforce Automation Custom Actions API** — Custom Apex invocable actions (@InvocableMethod)
- **Salesforce Automation Custom Endpoints API** — Custom Apex REST web service endpoints defined with @RestResource annotation
- **Salesforce Automation Dashboards API** — CRM Analytics dashboards
- **Salesforce Automation Dataflows API** — CRM Analytics dataflows (recipes)
- **Salesforce Automation Datasets API** — CRM Analytics datasets
- **Salesforce Automation Development API** — Code completion and development tools
- **Salesforce Automation Events API** — Platform Event publishing, describe, and schema operations
- **Salesforce Automation Feeds API** — Chatter feed elements (posts)
- **Salesforce Automation Flows API** — Flow and FlowDefinition management
- **Salesforce Automation Folders API** — Analytics applications (folders)
- **Salesforce Automation Graph API** — Subrequests with dependency graphs
- **Salesforce Automation Groups API** — Chatter groups
- **Salesforce Automation Ingest Jobs API** — Bulk data loading operations (insert, update, upsert, delete, hardDelete)
- **Salesforce Automation Lenses API** — CRM Analytics lenses (explorations)
- **Salesforce Automation Limits API** — Org API and resource limits
- **Salesforce Automation PushTopics API** — SOQL-based streaming event topics (deprecated; use Platform Events or CDC)
- **Salesforce Automation Query API** — SAQL query execution
- **Salesforce Automation Query Jobs API** — Bulk data extraction via SOQL queries
- **Salesforce Automation Records API** — CRUD operations on individual SObject records
- **Salesforce Automation SObject Collections API** — Bulk CRUD operations on up to 200 records
- **Salesforce Automation SObject Tree API** — Create nested parent-child records
- **Salesforce Automation SObjects API** — SObject metadata and describe operations
- **Salesforce Automation SOQL API** — Salesforce Object Query Language queries
- **Salesforce Automation SOSL API** — Salesforce Object Search Language searches
- **Salesforce Automation Standard Actions API** — Salesforce-provided standard invocable actions
- **Salesforce Automation Streaming Channels API** — Generic streaming channels for custom event delivery
- **Salesforce Automation Testing API** — Apex test execution
- **Salesforce Automation Topics API** — Chatter topics
- **Salesforce Automation Users API** — Chatter user profiles
- …and 2 more, listed in full on the page.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Salesforce Automation Agentic Access** — 104 operations · 42 acting

## Security (2)

- **Salesforce Automation Authentication** — http/oauth2 · 2 schemes
- **Salesforce Automation Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Salesforce Automation Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (6)

- **Sales Pipeline Automation** — Automate lead assignment, opportunity stage progression, and deal closure workflows.
- **Data Migration** — Bulk import and export of large datasets between Salesforce and external systems.
- **Real-Time Data Sync** — Keep external systems in sync with Salesforce using Change Data Capture events.
- **Custom Integrations** — Build custom REST endpoints using Apex REST for bespoke integration scenarios.
- **Analytics and Reporting** — Programmatic access to Einstein Analytics dashboards and datasets.
- **Process Automation** — Trigger flows, approval processes, and invocable actions based on data changes.

## Tags

Automation, Cloud, CRM, Enterprise, Sales

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/salesforce-automation/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.