List Your Public Channels

List channels for username with HTTP GET

Request

HTTP Method

GET

URL

https://api.thingspeak.com/users/<user_id>/channels.<format>

URL Parameters

Name	Description
<user_id>	(Required) User ID for the channels of interest.
<format>	(Required) Format for the HTTP response, specified as json or xml.

Example: https://api.thingspeak.com/users/cstapels/channels.json

Query String Parameters

Name	Description	Value Type
tag	(Optional) Specify a tag to search for in public channels.	string

Response

Success

HTTP Status Code

200 OK

Body

 JSON Example

GET https://api.thingspeak.com/users/iothans/channels.json

The response is a JSON array of channel settings, for example: { "channels": [ { "id": 3, "name": "ioBridge Server", "description": "ioBridge IO-204 connected to web server to report temperatures to ThingSpeak", "latitude": "0.0", "longitude": "0.0", "created_at": "2010-12-03T14:26:23Z", "elevation": "", "last_entry_id": 365190, "public_flag": true, "url": "https://www.iobridge.com", "ranking": 85, "tags": [ { "id": 24, "name": "temperature" }, { "id": 317, "name": "iobridge" } ] }, { "id": 25, "name": "light" }, { "id": 3, "name": "sensor" } ] }, { "id": 212, "name": "Digital Step Demo", "description": "", "latitude": "0.0", "longitude": "0.0", "created_at": "2011-03-29T20:05:20Z", "elevation": "", "last_entry_id": 8, "public_flag": true, "url": "", "ranking": 15, "tags": [] } ] }

 XML Example

GET https://api.thingspeak.com/users/iothans/channels.xml

The response is an XML array of channel settings, for example: <response> <channels type="array"> <channel> <id type="integer">3</id> <name>ioBridge Server</name> <description> ioBridge IO-204 connected to web server to report temperatures to ThingSpeak </description> <latitude type="decimal">0.0</latitude> <longitude type="decimal">0.0</longitude> <created-at type="dateTime">2010-12-03T14:26:23Z</created-at> <elevation/> <last-entry-id type="integer">365191</last-entry-id> <public-flag type="boolean">true</public-flag> <url>https://www.iobridge.com</url> <ranking type="integer">85</ranking> <tags type="array"> <tag> <id type="integer">24</id> <name>temperature</name> </tag> <tag> <id type="integer">317</id> <name>iobridge</name> </tag> </tags> </channel> <channel> <id type="integer">212</id> <name>Digital Step Demo</name> <description/> <latitude type="decimal">0.0</latitude> <longitude type="decimal">0.0</longitude> <created-at type="dateTime">2011-03-29T20:05:20Z</created-at> <elevation/> <last-entry-id type="integer">8</last-entry-id> <public-flag type="boolean">true</public-flag> <url/> <ranking type="integer">15</ranking> <tags type="array"/> </channel> </response>

Error

For the full list, see Error Codes.