elasticsearch/docs/reference/connector/apis/create-connector-api.asciidoc
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[[create-connector-api]]
=== Create connector API
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<titleabbrev>Create connector</titleabbrev>
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Creates a connector.
[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 connectors, it's essential to have the Elastic connectors service running.
* The `service_type` parameter should reference an existing connector service type.
[[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>`::
(Required, 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`::
(Required, string) The target index for syncing data by the connector.
`name`::
(Optional, string) The name of the connector.
`is_native`::
(Optional, boolean) Indicates if it's a native 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 connector types or a custom connector type.
[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]
----
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": "english"
}
----
The API returns the following result:
[source,console-result]
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{
"result": "created"
}
----
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[source,console]
----
DELETE _connector/my-connector
----
// TEST[continued]
////