Automatic Salesforce Data Export Wizard

Introduction

This simple script extracts zipped CSV files on the Salesforce Data Export feature of the Salesforce Setup. With this tool you can schedule a script on a local/remote server to automatically download all 512MB zipped files on the Salesforce Data Export page.

Installation

1. Install all required modules from package: npm install
2. Install Foreman to run with env variables in file .env: npm install -g foreman or npm install -g heroku
3. Rename a .env-local file into .env and set the local path, Salesforce login Url, username and password+token in the respective keys
4. Run nf startor heroku local

Configuration

Before running the script configure the following environment variables:

localfolder=path\to\local\folder
loginurl=https://login.salesforce.com
username=myusername@example.
password=PASSWORD+TOKEN

Credits

Enrico Murru 2021 - https://blog.enree.co/2021/01/automatic-export-tool-for-salesforce-data-export-backups.html