The Matadata API provides access to the details of your company resources.
Overview
The metadata in Bob represents the properties of data fields and lists. The properties include the field's type, category and id, helping you to learn how to process the data it contains.
Use the Metadata endpoints to:
- Read and update fields and custom fields properties.
- Read lists properties and the list-items.
- Update list-items.
- Read employee tables properties.
- Read custom employee tables properties.
Learn more about using Fields and lists metadata
Rate limiting
Rate limits are restrictions that our API imposes on the number of times a user can access our endpoints within a specified period of time. To learn more about rate limiting best practices, see Rate limiting.
Below is a table detailing the rate limits for each endpoint in the Onboarding endpoints.
| Method | Endpoint | Limit per minute |
|---|---|---|
| GET | Get all company lists | 50 |
| GET | Get a specific company list by name | 50 |
| POST | Add a new item to an existing list | 10 |
| PUT | Update an existing item from a list | 10 |
| DELETE | Delete an item from an existing list | 10 |
| GET | Get all company fields | 50 |
| POST | Create a new field | 10 |
| PUT | Update an existing field | 10 |
| DELETE | Delete an existing field | 10 |
| GET | Read metadata of custom tables defined | 50 |
| GET | Read metadata for specific custom table | 50 |
| GET | Get all positions fields | 50 |