---
title: Create Target App
description: Reference for the POST /console/v1/target_app API endpoint.
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---
# Create Target App

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## Create Target App

**POST** `/console/v1/target_app`

Full URL: `https://statsigapi.net/console/v1/target_app`

Create Target App

## Authorizations

| Name | Type | Required | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| STATSIG-API-KEY | string | Yes | — | apiKey (header) |

## Body (application/json)

| Name | Type | Required | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| name | string | Yes | string | name of the target app |
| description | string | Yes | a description | a description of the target app |
| gates | string[] | No | — | Gate IDs to assign to target app(s) |
| dynamicConfigs | string[] | No | — | Dynamic Config IDs to assign to target app(s) |
| experiments | string[] | No | — | Experiment IDs to assign to target app(s) |
| layers | string[] | No | — | Layer IDs to assign to target app(s) |
| parameterStores | string[] | No | — | Parameter Store IDs to assign to target app(s) |

## Response (application/json)

**200** — Create Target App Success

| Name | Type | Required | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| message | string | Yes | — | A simple string explaining the result of the operation. |
| data | object | Yes | — | — |
| data.id | string | No | string | id of target app |
| data.name | string | Yes | a tag | name of the target app |

```json
{
  "name": "Target app 1",
  "description": "Example description",
  "gates": [
    "Example gate"
  ],
  "dynamicConfigs": [
    "Example dynamic config"
  ],
  "experiments": [
    "Example experiment"
  ]
}
```

## Code samples

### cURL

```bash
curl -X POST "https://statsigapi.net/console/v1/target_app" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "STATSIG-API-KEY: YOUR_API_KEY"
```

### Python

```python
import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://statsigapi.net/console/v1/target_app",
    headers={
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
        "STATSIG-API-KEY": "YOUR_API_KEY"
    }
)
data = response.json()
```

### JavaScript

```javascript
const response = await fetch("https://statsigapi.net/console/v1/target_app", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "STATSIG-API-KEY": "YOUR_API_KEY"
  }
});
const data = await response.json();
```

### PHP

```php
<?php
$ch = curl_init("https://statsigapi.net/console/v1/target_app");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [
    "Content-Type: application/json",
    "STATSIG-API-KEY: YOUR_API_KEY"
]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
```

### Go

```go
package main

import (
  "bytes"
  "net/http"
)

func main() {
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "https://statsigapi.net/console/v1/target_app", nil)
req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
req.Header.Set("STATSIG-API-KEY", "YOUR_API_KEY")
  client := &http.Client{}
  resp, _ := client.Do(req)
  defer resp.Body.Close()
}
```

### Java

```java
HttpClient client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
      .uri(URI.create("https://statsigapi.net/console/v1/target_app"))
      .method("POST", HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.noBody())
.header("Content-Type", "application/json")
      .header("STATSIG-API-KEY", "YOUR_API_KEY")
      .build();
HttpResponse<String> response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
```

### Ruby

```ruby
require "net/http"
require "json"

uri = URI("https://statsigapi.net/console/v1/target_app")
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri)
request["Content-Type"] = "application/json"
request["STATSIG-API-KEY"] = "YOUR_API_KEY"
response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: uri.scheme == "https") do |http|
  http.request(request)
end
```