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Lifecycle Stage Resources

Lifecycle stages define the steps on a sales journey. In Pardot, we define the following lifecycle stages:

Visitor
Prospect
Marketing qualified lead (MQL)
Sales qualified lead (SQL)
Won opportunity Use lifecycle stage resources to learn about a prospect's current lifecycle stage, including the stage name and position. For information about how a prospect is moving through their lifecycle journey, see Lifecycle History Resources. Learn more about prospect lifecycles in Salesforce Help.

Note: Include the authentication header with every request. For information on how to authenticate, see Authentication.

Resource Name	Operation	Description
Lifecycle Stage Query	`GET`	Request information for the lifecycle stage records that matches the specified criteria.

Lifecycle Stage Query

Request information for the lifecycle stage records that match the specified criteria. You can specify the lifecycle stage records and fields to request. A maximum of 200 records are returned. To return all lifecycle stage records, specify the output as mobile.

URI

/api/lifecycleStage/version/3/do/query?...

Parameters to Select Lifecycle Stage Records

Use these parameters to specify the lifecycle stage records to return. Parameters can be used in any combination and in any order unless otherwise specified.

Notes:

Parameters must be URL-encoded.
Dates and times must use GNU Date Input Syntax (for example, yyyy-mm-dd:hh:ss:mm).
For a full listing of lifecycle stage fields see Object Field References.

Parameter	Type	Possible Values	Description
`id_greater_than`	`integer`	Any positive integer	Request lifecycle stage records that have an ID greater than the specified number.
`id_less_than`	`integer`	Any positive integer	Request lifecycle stage records that have an ID less than the specified number.

Parameters to Specify Which Results Are Returned

Use these parameters to specify the lifecycle stage fields to return, and how the lifecycle stage records are sorted.

Parameter	Type	Possible Values	Description
`limit`	`integer`	Any integer from 1 through 200.	The number of lifecycle stage records to return. Default value is 200.
`offset`	`integer`	Any positive integer	The number of lifecycle stage records to omit from the response (the number to "skip over"). Example: Retrieve a list of lifecycle stage records, omitting the 50 most recently updated records. Sort the query by the `position` field and use offset=50: `/api/lifecycleStage/version/3/do/query?sort_by=position&offset=50`
`sort_by`	`string`	`position`, `id`	The field by which the results are sorted. See Sort Order.
`sort_order`	`string`	`ascending, descending`	The sort order. The default value depends on which `sort_by` parameter you specify. See Sort Order.

Sort Order

Use sort_by to specify which field Pardot uses to sort the results. Different fields have different default sort orders.

Value	Default Sort Order	Description
`position`	descending	Sort the results by the lifecycle stage records' position.
`id`	ascending	Sort the results by the lifecycle stage records' `id` fields.

XML Response for a Lifecycle Stage Query

<rsp stat="ok" version="1.0">
    <result>
        <total_results>...</total_results>
        <lifecycleStage>...</lifecycleStage>
        <lifecycleStage>...</lifecycleStage>
        <lifecycleStage>...</lifecycleStage>
    </result>
</rsp>

Tag	Description
`<result>`	Parent tag. Contains information about the lifecycle stage records that match the parameters specified in your query.
`<total_results>`	Contains the number of lifecycle stage records selected by the query. Note: The query request returns a maximum of 200 forms. If your query matches more than 200 lifecycle stage records, you can make several requests to retrieve all matching records.
`<lifecycleStage>`	The information about a single lifecycle stage. See Lifecycle Stage in Object Field References for a complete description of fields.