# CreatePublishingDestination
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Creates a publishing destination where you can export your GuardDuty findings. Before you start exporting the findings, the destination resource must exist.

## Request Syntax
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```
POST /detector/DetectorId/publishingDestination HTTP/1.1
Content-type: application/json

{
   "clientToken": "string",
   "destinationProperties": { 
      "destinationArn": "string",
      "kmsKeyArn": "string"
   },
   "destinationType": "string",
   "tags": { 
      "string" : "string" 
   }
}
```

## URI Request Parameters
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The request uses the following URI parameters.

 ** [DetectorId](#API_CreatePublishingDestination_RequestSyntax) **   <a name="guardduty-CreatePublishingDestination-request-uri-DetectorId"></a>
The ID of the GuardDuty detector associated with the publishing destination.  
To find the `detectorId` in the current Region, see the Settings page in the GuardDuty console, or run the [ListDetectors](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/guardduty/latest/APIReference/API_ListDetectors.html) API.  
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 300.  
Required: Yes

## Request Body
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The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

 ** [clientToken](#API_CreatePublishingDestination_RequestSyntax) **   <a name="guardduty-CreatePublishingDestination-request-clientToken"></a>
The idempotency token for the request.  
Type: String  
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 64.  
Required: No

 ** [destinationProperties](#API_CreatePublishingDestination_RequestSyntax) **   <a name="guardduty-CreatePublishingDestination-request-destinationProperties"></a>
The properties of the publishing destination, including the ARNs for the destination and the KMS key used for encryption.  
Type: [DestinationProperties](API_DestinationProperties.md) object  
Required: Yes

 ** [destinationType](#API_CreatePublishingDestination_RequestSyntax) **   <a name="guardduty-CreatePublishingDestination-request-destinationType"></a>
The type of resource for the publishing destination. Currently only Amazon S3 buckets are supported.  
Type: String  
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 300.  
Valid Values: `S3`   
Required: Yes

 ** [tags](#API_CreatePublishingDestination_RequestSyntax) **   <a name="guardduty-CreatePublishingDestination-request-tags"></a>
The tags to be added to a new publishing destination resource.  
Type: String to string map  
Map Entries: Maximum number of 200 items.  
Key Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.  
Key Pattern: `(?!aws:)[a-zA-Z+-=._:/]+`   
Value Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 256.  
Required: No

## Response Syntax
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```
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-type: application/json

{
   "destinationId": "string"
}
```

## Response Elements
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If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

 ** [destinationId](#API_CreatePublishingDestination_ResponseSyntax) **   <a name="guardduty-CreatePublishingDestination-response-destinationId"></a>
The ID of the publishing destination that is created.  
Type: String

## Errors
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For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see [Common Error Types](CommonErrors.md).

 ** BadRequestException **   
A bad request exception object.    
 ** Message **   
The error message.  
 ** Type **   
The error type.
HTTP Status Code: 400

 ** InternalServerErrorException **   
An internal server error exception object.    
 ** Message **   
The error message.  
 ** Type **   
The error type.
HTTP Status Code: 500

## See Also
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For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
+  [AWS Command Line Interface V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/cli2/guardduty-2017-11-28/CreatePublishingDestination) 
+  [AWS SDK for .NET V4](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/DotNetSDKV4/guardduty-2017-11-28/CreatePublishingDestination) 
+  [AWS SDK for C\$1\$1](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForCpp/guardduty-2017-11-28/CreatePublishingDestination) 
+  [AWS SDK for Go v2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForGoV2/guardduty-2017-11-28/CreatePublishingDestination) 
+  [AWS SDK for Java V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaV2/guardduty-2017-11-28/CreatePublishingDestination) 
+  [AWS SDK for JavaScript V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaScriptV3/guardduty-2017-11-28/CreatePublishingDestination) 
+  [AWS SDK for Kotlin](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForKotlin/guardduty-2017-11-28/CreatePublishingDestination) 
+  [AWS SDK for PHP V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForPHPV3/guardduty-2017-11-28/CreatePublishingDestination) 
+  [AWS SDK for Python](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/boto3/guardduty-2017-11-28/CreatePublishingDestination) 
+  [AWS SDK for Ruby V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForRubyV3/guardduty-2017-11-28/CreatePublishingDestination)