# Configuring CircleCI
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Before you can use AWS Glue to transfer data from CircleCI, you must meet these requirements:

## Minimum requirements
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The following are minimum requirements:
+ You have an account with CircleCI that contains the data that you want to transfer. 
+ In the user settings for your account, you've created a personal API token. For more information, see [Creating a personal API token](https://circleci.com/docs/managing-api-tokens/#creating-a-personal-api-token).
+ You provide the personal API token to AWS Glue while creating the connection.

If you meet these requirements, you’re ready to connect AWS Glue to your CircleCI account.