Elasticsearch 8.11.1 client instantiation fails

Question

I instantiated an elasticsearch client using elastic_client = Elasticsearch("http://localhost:9200") trying different numbers for ports such as 9200, 13000 etc.

but I keep getting the error below When I run elastic_client.info() i get following error:

elastic_transport.ConnectionError: Connection error caused by:  
ConnectionError(Connection error caused by: 
NewConnectionError(<urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 
0x000001D19F5FBEC0>: Failed to establish a new connection: [WinError 10061] 
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it))

I want the client to be on my local machine. Can someone suggest how to address this issue? Thank you.