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Setting up the Salesforce source connector involves creating a read-only Salesforce user and configuring the Salesforce connector through the Airbyte UI.

This page guides you through the process of setting up the Salesforce source connector.

Prerequisites​

  • Salesforce Account with Enterprise access or API quota purchased
  • Dedicated Salesforce user (optional)
  • (For Airbyte Open Source) Salesforce OAuth credentials

Setup guide​

While you can set up the Salesforce connector using any Salesforce user with read permission, we recommend creating a dedicated read-only user for Airbyte. This allows you to granularly control the data Airbyte can read.

To create a dedicated read only Salesforce user:

  1. Log into Salesforce with an admin account.
  2. On the top right of the screen, click the gear icon and then click Setup.
  3. In the left navigation bar, under Administration, click Users > Profiles. The Profiles page is displayed. Click New profile.
  4. For Existing Profile, select Read only. For Profile Name, enter Airbyte Read Only User.
  5. Click Save. The Profiles page is displayed. Click Edit.
  6. Scroll down to the Standard Object Permissions and Custom Object Permissions and enable the Read checkbox for objects that you want to replicate via Airbyte.
  7. Scroll to the top and click Save.
  8. On the left side, under Administration, click Users > Users. The All Users page is displayed. Click New User.
  9. Fill out the required fields:
    1. For License, select Salesforce.
    2. For Profile, select Airbyte Read Only User.
    3. For Email, make sure to use an email address that you can access.
  10. Click Save.
  11. Copy the Username and keep it accessible.
  12. Log into the email you used above and verify your new Salesforce account user. You'll need to set a password as part of this process. Keep this password accessible.

Step 2: Set up Salesforce as a Source in Airbyte​

For Airbyte Cloud:

To set up Salesforce as a source in Airbyte Cloud:

  1. Log into your Airbyte Cloud account.
  2. In the left navigation bar, click Sources. In the top-right corner, click + New source.
  3. On the Set up the source page, select Salesforce from the Source type dropdown.
  4. For Name, enter a name for the Salesforce connector.
  5. Toggle whether your Salesforce account is a Sandbox account or a production account.
  6. For Start Date, enter the date in YYYY-MM-DD format. The data added on and after this date will be replicated. If this field is blank, Airbyte will replicate the data for last two years.
  7. (Optional) In the Salesforce Object filtering criteria section, click Add. From the Search criteria dropdown, select the criteria relevant to you. For Search value, add the search terms relevant to you. If this field is blank, Airbyte will replicate all data.
  8. Click Authenticate your account to authorize your Salesforce account. Airbyte will authenticate the Salesforce account you are already logged in to. Make sure you are logged into the right account.
  9. Click Set up source.

For Airbyte Open Source:

To set up Salesforce as a source in Airbyte Open Source:

  1. Follow this walkthrough with the following modifications:

    1. If your Salesforce URL’s is not in the X.salesforce.com format, use your Salesforce domain name. For example, if your Salesforce URL is awesomecompany.force.com then use that instead of awesomecompany.salesforce.com.
    2. When running a curl command, run it with the -L option to follow any redirects.
    3. If you created a read-only user, use the user credentials when logging in to generate OAuth tokens.

  2. Navigate to the Airbute Open Source dashboard and follow the same steps as setting up Salesforce as a source in Airbyte Cloud.

Supported sync modes​

The Salesforce source connector supports the following sync modes:

Incremental Deletes Sync​

The Salesforce connector retrieves deleted records from Salesforce. For the streams which support it, a deleted record will be marked with the field isDeleted=true value.

Performance considerations​

The Salesforce connector is restricted by Salesforce’s Daily Rate Limits. The connector syncs data until it hits the daily rate limit, then ends the sync early with success status, and starts the next sync from where it left off. Note that picking up from where it ends will work only for incremental sync, which is why we recommend using the Incremental Sync - Deduped History sync mode.

Supported Objects​

The Salesforce connector supports reading both Standard Objects and Custom Objects from Salesforce. Each object is read as a separate stream. See a list of all Salesforce Standard Objects here.

Airbyte fetches and handles all the possible and available streams dynamically based on:

  • If the authenticated Salesforce user has the Role and Permissions to read and fetch objects

  • If the stream has the queryable property set to true. Airbyte can fetch only queryable streams via the API. If you don’t see your object available via Airbyte, check if it is API-accessible to the Salesforce user you authenticated with in Step 2.

Note: BULK API cannot be used to receive data from the following streams due to Salesforce API limitations. The Salesforce connector syncs them using the REST API which will occasionally cost more of your API quota:

  • AcceptedEventRelation
  • Attachment
  • CaseStatus
  • ContractStatus
  • DeclinedEventRelation
  • FieldSecurityClassification
  • KnowledgeArticle
  • KnowledgeArticleVersion
  • KnowledgeArticleVersionHistory
  • KnowledgeArticleViewStat
  • KnowledgeArticleVoteStat
  • OrderStatus
  • PartnerRole
  • RecentlyViewed
  • ServiceAppointmentStatus
  • ShiftStatus
  • SolutionStatus
  • TaskPriority
  • TaskStatus
  • UndecidedEventRelation

Salesforce tutorials​

Now that you have set up the Salesforce source connector, check out the following Salesforce tutorials:

Changelog​

VersionDatePull RequestSubject
2.1.12023-07-0628021Several Vulnerabilities Fixes; switched to use alpine instead of slim, CVE-2022-40897, CVE-2023-29383, CVE-2023-31484, CVE-2016-2781
2.1.02023-06-2627726License Update: Elv2
2.0.142023-05-0425794Avoid pandas inferring wrong data types by forcing all data type as object
2.0.132023-04-3025700Remove pagination and query limits
2.0.122023-04-2525507Update API version to 57
2.0.112023-04-2025352Update API version to 53
2.0.102023-04-0524888Add more frequent checkpointing
2.0.92023-03-2924660Set default start_date. Sync for last two years if start date is not present in config
2.0.82023-03-3024690Handle rate limit for bulk operations
2.0.72023-03-1424071Remove regex pattern for start_date, use format validation instead
2.0.62023-03-0322891Specified date formatting in specification
2.0.52023-03-0123610Handle different Salesforce page size for different queries
2.0.42023-02-2422636Turn on default HttpAvailabilityStrategy for all streams that are not of class BulkSalesforceStream
2.0.32023-02-1723190In case properties are chunked, fetch primary key in every chunk
2.0.22023-02-1322896Count the URL length based on encoded params
2.0.12023-02-0822597Make multiple requests if a REST stream has too many properties
2.0.02023-02-0222322Remove ActivityMetricRollup stream
1.0.302023-01-2722016Set AvailabilityStrategy for streams explicitly to None
1.0.292023-01-0520886Remove ActivityMetric stream
1.0.282022-12-2920927Fix tests; add expected records
1.0.272022-11-2919869Remove AccountHistory from unsupported BULK streams
1.0.262022-11-1519286Bugfix: fallback to REST API if entity is not supported by BULK API
1.0.252022-11-1319294Use the correct encoding for non UTF-8 objects and data
1.0.242022-11-0118799Update list of unsupported Bulk API objects
1.0.232022-11-0118753Add error_display_message for ConnectionError
1.0.222022-10-1217615Make paging work, if cursor_field is not changed inside one page
1.0.212022-10-1017778Add EventWhoRelation to the list of unsupported Bulk API objects.
1.0.202022-09-3017453Check objects that are not supported by the Bulk API (v52.0)
1.0.192022-09-2917314Fixed bug with decoding response
1.0.182022-09-2817304Migrate to per-stream states.
1.0.172022-09-2317094Tune connection check: fetch a list of available streams
1.0.162022-09-2117001Improve writing file of decode
1.0.152022-08-3016086Improve API type detection
1.0.142022-08-2916119Exclude KnowledgeArticleVersion from using bulk API
1.0.132022-08-2315901Exclude KnowledgeArticle from using bulk API
1.0.122022-08-0915444Fixed bug when Bulk Job was timeout by the connector, but remained running on the server
1.0.112022-07-0713729Improve configuration field descriptions
1.0.102022-06-0913658Correct logic to sync stream larger than page size
1.0.92022-05-0612685Update CDK to v0.1.56 to emit an AirbyeTraceMessage on uncaught exceptions
1.0.82022-05-0412576Decode responses as utf-8 and fallback to ISO-8859-1 if needed
1.0.72022-05-0312552Decode responses as ISO-8859-1 instead of utf-8
1.0.62022-04-2712335Adding fixtures to mock time.sleep for connectors that explicitly sleep
1.0.52022-04-2512304Add Describe stream
1.0.42022-04-2012230Update connector to use a spec.yaml
1.0.32022-04-0411692Optimised memory usage for BULK API calls
1.0.22022-03-0110751Fix broken link anchor in connector configuration
1.0.12022-02-2710679Reorganize input parameter order on the UI
1.0.02022-02-2710516Speed up schema discovery by using parallelism
0.1.232022-02-1010141Processing of failed jobs
0.1.222022-02-0210012Increase CSV field_size_limit
0.1.212022-01-289499If a sync reaches daily rate limit it ends the sync early with success status. Read more in Performance considerations section
0.1.202022-01-269757Parse CSV with "unix" dialect
0.1.192022-01-258617Update connector fields title/description
0.1.182022-01-209478Add available stream filtering by queryable flag
0.1.172022-01-199302Deprecate API Type parameter
0.1.162022-01-189151Fix pagination in REST API streams
0.1.152022-01-119409Correcting the presence of an extra else handler in the error handling
0.1.142022-01-119386Handling 400 error, while sobject doesn't support query or queryAll requests
0.1.132022-01-118797Switched from authSpecification to advanced_auth in specefication
0.1.122021-12-238871Fix examples for new field in specification
0.1.112021-12-238871Add the ability to filter streams by user
0.1.102021-12-239005Handling 400 error when a stream is not queryable
0.1.92021-12-078405Filter 'null' byte(s) in HTTP responses
0.1.82021-11-308191Make start_date optional and change its format to YYYY-MM-DD
0.1.72021-11-248206Handling 400 error when trying to create a job for sync using Bulk API.
0.1.62021-11-168009Fix retring of BULK jobs
0.1.52021-11-157885Add Transform for output records
0.1.42021-11-097778Fix types for anyType fields
0.1.32021-11-067592Fix getting anyType fields using BULK API
0.1.22021-09-306438Annotate Oauth2 flow initialization parameters in connector specification
0.1.12021-09-216209Fix bug with pagination for BULK API
0.1.02021-09-085619Salesforce Aitbyte-Native Connector