[[create-connector-api]]
=== Create connector API
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For the most up-to-date API details, refer to {api-es}/group/endpoint-connector[Connector APIs].
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Creates an Elastic connector.
Connectors are {es} integrations that bring content from third-party data sources, which can be deployed on {ecloud} or hosted on your own infrastructure:

* *Managed connectors* are a managed service on {ecloud}
* *Self-managed connectors* are self-hosted on your infrastructure

Find a list of all supported service types in the <<es-connectors,connectors documentation>>.

To get started with Connector APIs, check out <<es-connectors-tutorial-api, our tutorial>>.


[source,console]
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PUT _connector/my-connector
{
  "index_name": "search-google-drive",
  "name": "My Connector",
  "service_type": "google_drive"
}
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[source,console]
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DELETE _connector/my-connector
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// TEST[continued]
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[[create-connector-api-request]]
==== {api-request-title}
* `POST _connector`

* `PUT _connector/<connector_id>`


[[create-connector-api-prereqs]]
==== {api-prereq-title}

* To sync data using self-managed connectors, you need to deploy the <<es-connectors-deploy-connector-service,Elastic connector service>>. on your own infrastructure. This service runs automatically on Elastic Cloud for Elastic managed connectors.
* The `service_type` parameter should reference a supported third-party service. See the available service types for <<es-native-connectors,Elastic managed>> and <<es-build-connector,self-managed>> connectors. This can also reference the service type of your custom connector.


[[create-connector-api-desc]]
==== {api-description-title}

Creates a connector document in the internal index and initializes its configuration, filtering, and scheduling with default values. These values can be updated later as needed.

[[create-connector-api-path-params]]
==== {api-path-parms-title}

`<connector_id>`::
(Optional, string) Unique identifier of a connector.


[role="child_attributes"]
[[create-connector-api-request-body]]
==== {api-request-body-title}

`description`::
(Optional, string) The description of the connector.

`index_name`::
(Optional, string) The target index to sync data. If the index doesn't exist, it will be created upon the first sync.

`name`::
(Optional, string) The name of the connector. Setting the connector name is recommended when managing connectors in {kib}.

`is_native`::
(Optional, boolean) Indicates if it's a managed connector. Defaults to `false`.

`language`::
(Optional, string) Language analyzer for the data. Limited to supported languages.

`service_type`::
(Optional, string) Connector service type. Can reference Elastic-supported third-party services or a custom connector type. See the available service types for <<es-native-connectors,Elastic managed>> and <<es-build-connector,self-managed>> connectors.


[role="child_attributes"]
[[create-connector-api-response-body]]
==== {api-response-body-title}

`id`::
  (string) The ID associated with the connector document. Returned when using a POST request.

`result`::
  (string) The result of the indexing operation, `created` or `updated`. Returned when using a PUT request.

[[create-connector-api-response-codes]]
==== {api-response-codes-title}

`200`::
Indicates that an existing connector was updated successfully.

`201`::
Indicates that the connector was created successfully.

`400`::
Indicates that the request was malformed.

[[create-connector-api-example]]
==== {api-examples-title}

[source,console]
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PUT _connector/my-connector
{
  "index_name": "search-google-drive",
  "name": "My Connector",
  "description": "My Connector to sync data to Elastic index from Google Drive",
  "service_type": "google_drive",
  "language": "en"
}
----


The API returns the following result:

[source,console-result]
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{
  "result": "created",
  "id": "my-connector"
}
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[source,console]
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DELETE _connector/my-connector
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// TEST[continued]
////