Getting Started
Quick Start
- Sign Up for a ThingSpeak account
- Create a new Channel by going to your Channels page and clicking Create New Channel
- Update your Channel via URL:
https://127.0.0.1:3000/update?api_key=YOUR_CHANNEL_API_KEY&field1=7 - View your Channel feed:
https://127.0.0.1:3000/channels/YOUR_CHANNEL_ID/feeds.json - Follow a tutorial for common devices and applications
Support
Please post your questions, comments, and feature requests in the ThingSpeak Forum.
Open Source
The ThingSpeak API is available on GitHub and includes the complete ThingSpeak API for processing HTTP requests, storing numeric and alphanumeric data, numeric data processing, location tracking, and status updates. The open source version follows the same documentation as the ThingSpeak hosted service.
HTTP Headers
If you would like to reduce the number of HTTP headers sent by our application, please add the parameterheaders=false to any HTTP request.
API keys can optionally be sent via HTTP headers by setting the header name to
THINGSPEAKAPIKEY and the header value to the API key.
Time Zones Reference
Time zones can be specified for any request by adding the timezone parameter with a value corresponding to any identifier found below. Identifier names are case-sensitive, and should be URL-encoded in HTTP GET requests, for example:GET https://127.0.0.1:3000/channels/9/fields/1/last.json?timezone=America%2FNew_York
The most common time zone identifiers are listed below. ThingSpeak supports all IANA Time Zone Database identifers; a human-readable list is also available.
| Identifier | Description | Current Offset |
|---|---|---|
| Pacific/Midway | International Date Line West, Midway Island | UTC -11:00 |
| Pacific/Pago_Pago | American Samoa | UTC -11:00 |
| Pacific/Honolulu | Hawaii | UTC -10:00 |
| America/Juneau | Alaska | UTC -08:00 |
| America/Los_Angeles | Pacific Time (US & Canada) | UTC -07:00 |
| America/Tijuana | Tijuana | UTC -07:00 |
| America/Mazatlan | Mazatlan | UTC -07:00 |
| America/Phoenix | Arizona | UTC -07:00 |
| America/Chihuahua | Chihuahua | UTC -07:00 |
| America/Denver | Mountain Time (US & Canada) | UTC -06:00 |
| America/Guatemala | Central America | UTC -06:00 |
| America/Regina | Saskatchewan | UTC -06:00 |
| America/Monterrey | Monterrey | UTC -06:00 |
| America/Mexico_City | Guadalajara, Mexico City | UTC -06:00 |
| America/Chicago | Central Time (US & Canada) | UTC -05:00 |
| America/Lima | Lima, Quito | UTC -05:00 |
| America/Bogota | Bogota | UTC -05:00 |
| America/Indiana/Indianapolis | Indiana (East) | UTC -04:00 |
| America/New_York | Eastern Time (US & Canada) | UTC -04:00 |
| America/Guyana | Georgetown | UTC -04:00 |
| America/Caracas | Caracas | UTC -04:30 |
| America/La_Paz | La Paz | UTC -04:00 |
| America/Santiago | Santiago | UTC -03:00 |
| America/Halifax | Atlantic Time (Canada) | UTC -03:00 |
| America/Sao_Paulo | Brasilia | UTC -03:00 |
| America/Montevideo | Montevideo | UTC -03:00 |
| America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires | Buenos Aires | UTC -03:00 |
| America/St_Johns | Newfoundland | UTC -02:30 |
| America/Godthab | Greenland | UTC -02:00 |
| Atlantic/South_Georgia | Mid-Atlantic | UTC -02:00 |
| Atlantic/Cape_Verde | Cape Verde Is. | UTC -01:00 |
| Atlantic/Azores | Azores | UTC +00:00 |
| Africa/Casablanca | Casablanca | UTC +00:00 |
| Africa/Monrovia | Monrovia | UTC +00:00 |
| Etc/UTC | UTC | UTC +00:00 |
| Europe/Lisbon | Lisbon | UTC +01:00 |
| Europe/London | Edinburgh, London | UTC +01:00 |
| Europe/Dublin | Dublin | UTC +01:00 |
| Africa/Algiers | West Central Africa | UTC +01:00 |
| Europe/Brussels | Brussels | UTC +02:00 |
| Europe/Budapest | Budapest | UTC +02:00 |
| Europe/Ljubljana | Ljubljana | UTC +02:00 |
| Europe/Prague | Prague | UTC +02:00 |
| Europe/Sarajevo | Sarajevo | UTC +02:00 |
| Europe/Skopje | Skopje | UTC +02:00 |
| Europe/Warsaw | Warsaw | UTC +02:00 |
| Europe/Zagreb | Zagreb | UTC +02:00 |
| Europe/Bratislava | Bratislava | UTC +02:00 |
| Europe/Copenhagen | Copenhagen | UTC +02:00 |
| Europe/Madrid | Madrid | UTC +02:00 |
| Europe/Paris | Paris | UTC +02:00 |
| Europe/Amsterdam | Amsterdam | UTC +02:00 |
| Europe/Berlin | Berlin, Bern | UTC +02:00 |
| Europe/Rome | Rome | UTC +02:00 |
| Europe/Stockholm | Stockholm | UTC +02:00 |
| Africa/Harare | Harare | UTC +02:00 |
| Europe/Belgrade | Belgrade | UTC +02:00 |
| Africa/Johannesburg | Pretoria | UTC +02:00 |
| Africa/Cairo | Cairo | UTC +02:00 |
| Europe/Vienna | Vienna | UTC +02:00 |
| Europe/Kiev | Kyiv | UTC +03:00 |
| Europe/Riga | Riga | UTC +03:00 |
| Europe/Sofia | Sofia | UTC +03:00 |
| Europe/Tallinn | Tallinn | UTC +03:00 |
| Asia/Baghdad | Baghdad | UTC +03:00 |
| Europe/Athens | Athens | UTC +03:00 |
| Europe/Istanbul | Istanbul | UTC +03:00 |
| Europe/Minsk | Minsk | UTC +03:00 |
| Asia/Jerusalem | Jerusalem | UTC +03:00 |
| Europe/Helsinki | Helsinki | UTC +03:00 |
| Europe/Bucharest | Bucharest | UTC +03:00 |
| Europe/Moscow | Moscow, St. Petersburg, Volgograd | UTC +03:00 |
| Asia/Kuwait | Kuwait | UTC +03:00 |
| Asia/Riyadh | Riyadh | UTC +03:00 |
| Africa/Nairobi | Nairobi | UTC +03:00 |
| Europe/Vilnius | Vilnius | UTC +03:00 |
| Asia/Tehran | Tehran | UTC +04:30 |
| Asia/Muscat | Abu Dhabi, Muscat | UTC +04:00 |
| Asia/Yerevan | Yerevan | UTC +04:00 |
| Asia/Tbilisi | Tbilisi | UTC +04:00 |
| Asia/Kabul | Kabul | UTC +04:30 |
| Asia/Baku | Baku | UTC +05:00 |
| Asia/Yekaterinburg | Ekaterinburg | UTC +05:00 |
| Asia/Karachi | Islamabad, Karachi | UTC +05:00 |
| Asia/Colombo | Sri Jayawardenepura | UTC +05:30 |
| Asia/Kolkata | Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi | UTC +05:30 |
| Asia/Kathmandu | Kathmandu | UTC +05:45 |
| Asia/Tashkent | Tashkent | UTC +05:00 |
| Asia/Dhaka | Astana, Dhaka | UTC +06:00 |
| Asia/Almaty | Almaty | UTC +06:00 |
| Asia/Urumqi | Urumqi | UTC +06:00 |
| Asia/Rangoon | Rangoon | UTC +06:30 |
| Asia/Novosibirsk | Novosibirsk | UTC +06:00 |
| Asia/Jakarta | Jakarta | UTC +07:00 |
| Asia/Krasnoyarsk | Krasnoyarsk | UTC +07:00 |
| Asia/Bangkok | Bangkok, Hanoi | UTC +07:00 |
| Asia/Chongqing | Chongqing | UTC +08:00 |
| Asia/Hong_Kong | Hong Kong | UTC +08:00 |
| Asia/Shanghai | Beijing | UTC +08:00 |
| Asia/Kuala_Lumpur | Kuala Lumpur | UTC +08:00 |
| Asia/Singapore | Singapore | UTC +08:00 |
| Asia/Taipei | Taipei | UTC +08:00 |
| Asia/Ulaanbaatar | Ulaanbaatar | UTC +08:00 |
| Asia/Irkutsk | Irkutsk | UTC +08:00 |
| Australia/Perth | Perth | UTC +08:00 |
| Asia/Seoul | Seoul | UTC +09:00 |
| Asia/Tokyo | Osaka, Sapporo, Tokyo | UTC +09:00 |
| Asia/Yakutsk | Yakutsk | UTC +09:00 |
| Australia/Darwin | Darwin | UTC +09:30 |
| Australia/Adelaide | Adelaide | UTC +10:30 |
| Asia/Magadan | Magadan | UTC +10:00 |
| Asia/Vladivostok | Vladivostok | UTC +10:00 |
| Australia/Brisbane | Brisbane | UTC +10:00 |
| Pacific/Guam | Guam | UTC +10:00 |
| Pacific/Port_Moresby | Port Moresby | UTC +10:00 |
| Australia/Hobart | Hobart | UTC +11:00 |
| Australia/Sydney | Sydney | UTC +11:00 |
| Australia/Melbourne | Canberra, Melbourne | UTC +11:00 |
| Pacific/Noumea | New Caledonia | UTC +11:00 |
| Pacific/Guadalcanal | Solomon Is. | UTC +11:00 |
| Pacific/Fiji | Fiji | UTC +12:00 |
| Pacific/Majuro | Marshall Is. | UTC +12:00 |
| Asia/Kamchatka | Kamchatka | UTC +12:00 |
| Pacific/Auckland | Auckland, Wellington | UTC +13:00 |
| Pacific/Tongatapu | Nuku'alofa | UTC +13:00 |
| Pacific/Chatham | Chatham Is. | UTC +13:45 |
| Pacific/Fakaofo | Tokelau Is. | UTC +13:00 |
| Pacific/Apia | Samoa | UTC +14:00 |
Note:
If both the offset and timezone parameters are present, offset will be ignored in favor of the more accurate timezone parameter.
If both the offset and timezone parameters are present, offset will be ignored in favor of the more accurate timezone parameter.