# Adding a custom profile

**URL:** <https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/adding-a-custom-profile/961>\
**Category:** directions\
**Created:** [September 23, 2019, 1:59pm UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/adding-a-custom-profile/961 "2019-09-23T13:59:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![nils](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/user_avatar/ask.openrouteservice.org/nils/32/6_2.png) [@nils](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/u/nils)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 2:15pm UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/adding-a-custom-profile/961/2 "2019-09-23T14:15:53Z")

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Hi,

easy, just specify `instructions=false` and `geometry=false`:

[https://openrouteservice.org/dev/#/api-docs/v2/directions/{profile}/geojson/post](https://openrouteservice.org/dev/#/api-docs/v2/directions/%7Bprofile%7D/geojson/post)

Other than that, there is no tutorial on creating your own profiles. You’ll need to dig into the code yourself. But the existing profile implementations should give you a very good idea of what’s necessary.

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