Salesforce

Extract Salesforce metadata into Catalog using the castor-extractor package.

Prerequisites

Installation Required

Follow the castor-extractor installation instructions before running the extraction.

We strongly recommend creating a dedicated user to extract your metadata.

Follow the instructions for creating the Catalog user on Salesforce to create the catalog user.

Run Extraction Script

Once the package has been installed, you should be able to run the following command in your terminal:

castor-extract-salesforce [arguments]

Credentials

• -u, --username: Salesforce username
• -p, --password: Salesforce password
• -c, --client-id: Salesforce client ID
• -s, --client-secret: Salesforce client secret
• -t, --security-token: Salesforce security token
• -b, --base-url: Salesforce instance URL

Other Arguments

• -o, --output: target folder to store the extracted files

Optional Arguments

• --skip-existing: Skip files already extracted instead of replacing them

Help

You can also get help with the --help argument.