Run a Salesforce Bulk API 2.0 query job to extract large datasets and download multi-part result files
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In-depth guide
Salesforce Bulk API 2.0 limits — the full failure-mode walkthrough related to developer.salesforce.com, checked against official docs, with linked verified routes.
Steps
Create a query job by POSTing to the Bulk API 2.0 jobs/query endpoint with the SOQL statement and desired content type
Poll the job status endpoint until the state transitions to JobComplete or Failed
Request the first results locator by calling the results endpoint on the completed job
Iterate through result batches by following the Sforce-Locator header returned in each response until no locator is returned
Write each CSV batch to disk or stream it to the destination system, preserving column order from the header row
Delete the completed job to release server-side resources after all batches are downloaded
Known gotchas
Result locators expire after a short window; download all batches promptly after job completion or the locator chain is lost
Relationship fields in SOQL (e.g., Account.Name) are flattened with dot notation in the CSV headers, which can confuse naive CSV parsers
The Bulk API 2.0 query endpoint is separate from the ingest endpoint; mixing up job type parameters silently creates the wrong job type
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