Getting Started


Quick Start

  1. Sign Up for a ThingSpeak account
  2. Create a new Channel by going to your Channels page and clicking Create New Channel
  3. Update your Channel via URL:
    http://thingspeak.umwelt-campus.de/update?api_key=YOUR_CHANNEL_API_KEY&field1=7
  4. View your Channel feed:
    http://thingspeak.umwelt-campus.de/channels/YOUR_CHANNEL_ID/feeds.json
  5. 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 parameter headers=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 http://thingspeak.umwelt-campus.de/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/Phoenix Arizona UTC -07:00
America/Tijuana Tijuana UTC -07:00
America/Denver Mountain Time (US & Canada) UTC -06:00
America/Regina Saskatchewan UTC -06:00
America/Mazatlan Mazatlan UTC -06:00
America/Guatemala Central America UTC -06:00
America/Chihuahua Chihuahua UTC -06:00
America/Mexico_City Guadalajara, Mexico City UTC -05:00
America/Monterrey Monterrey UTC -05:00
America/Bogota Bogota UTC -05:00
America/Lima Lima, Quito UTC -05:00
America/Chicago Central Time (US & Canada) UTC -05:00
America/La_Paz La Paz 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/Indiana/Indianapolis Indiana (East) UTC -04:00
America/Santiago Santiago UTC -03:00
America/Montevideo Montevideo UTC -03:00
America/Sao_Paulo Brasilia UTC -03:00
America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires Buenos Aires UTC -03:00
America/Halifax Atlantic Time (Canada) 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/Monrovia Monrovia UTC +00:00
Etc/UTC UTC UTC +00:00
Europe/Lisbon Lisbon UTC +01:00
Africa/Casablanca Casablanca 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/Zagreb Zagreb 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/Bratislava Bratislava UTC +02:00
Europe/Brussels Brussels 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
Africa/Harare Harare UTC +02:00
Europe/Vienna Vienna UTC +02:00
Europe/Belgrade Belgrade UTC +02:00
Africa/Johannesburg Pretoria UTC +02:00
Africa/Cairo Cairo UTC +02:00
Europe/Stockholm Stockholm 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 +09:30
Australia/Sydney Sydney UTC +10:00
Australia/Melbourne Canberra, Melbourne UTC +10:00
Australia/Brisbane Brisbane UTC +10:00
Australia/Hobart Hobart UTC +10:00
Asia/Vladivostok Vladivostok UTC +10:00
Pacific/Guam Guam UTC +10:00
Asia/Magadan Magadan UTC +10:00
Pacific/Port_Moresby Port Moresby UTC +10:00
Pacific/Guadalcanal Solomon Is. UTC +11:00
Pacific/Noumea New Caledonia UTC +11:00
Asia/Kamchatka Kamchatka UTC +12:00
Pacific/Fiji Fiji UTC +12:00
Pacific/Majuro Marshall Is. UTC +12:00
Pacific/Chatham Chatham Is. UTC +12:45
Pacific/Auckland Auckland, Wellington UTC +12:00
Pacific/Fakaofo Tokelau Is. UTC +13:00
Pacific/Tongatapu Nuku'alofa UTC +13:00
Pacific/Apia Samoa UTC +13:00
Note:
If both the offset and timezone parameters are present, offset will be ignored in favor of the more accurate timezone parameter.