Tips

The Tips section includes more information about the element including FAQs, endpoint limitations, and general tips.

Bulk

• Marketo limits users to 10,000 API calls per day. This can present an issue when making bulk queries. To help, use a query such as select * from myContact limit 10000. This will download only 10,000 contacts. You can then use the continueFromJobId parameter of the POST /bulk/query API to continue fetching the next 10,000 contacts. Continue chaining the queries together until you retrieve all of the contacts. Each API in Marketo returns approximately 300 leads/records.

• When using bulk to upload records, Marketo supports only upsert functionality (createOrUpdate). If you want to create, but not update records, include bulkUploadRecordSize and "action": "create" in the metaData passed with the bulk request. Where bulkUploadRecordSizeis the number of records to include in a batch. If you have 100 records and include "bulkUploadRecordSize": 30, we will create thirty records at a time until all 100 records are uploaded.

  Here's an example:

  Note: Requests that specify bulkUploadRecordSize can quickly use up API rate limits.

Events

Although Marketo supports webhooks, you might consider an alternative due to the API limit. You can use the GET /changed-contacts API instead.