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title: "Instant Salesforce REST API Creation | DreamFactory"
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# Instant Salesforce REST API Creation

Tutorial·6 May 2020·6 min 16 sec

Salesforce carries a lot of data complexity and its own API conventions. This tutorial generates a REST API over a Salesforce instance through DreamFactory, giving developers a consistent interface that matches the rest of their API estate.

## What you’ll learn

* Connecting a Salesforce instance to DreamFactory
* Generating consistent REST endpoints over Salesforce data
* Applying the same access controls used for database APIs

## Related articles

* [The REST API Roundup!](https://blog.dreamfactory.com/the-rest-api-roundup)
* [Instantly Create A Salesforce REST API](https://blog.dreamfactory.com/instantly-create-a-salesforce-rest-api)

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Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46gsAsDfbuA