Choose How to Write Data

Ways to Collect Data into a Channel

Collect data in your channel with hardware or software on devices or computers using the REST API, MQTT, or MATLAB^®.

Choose Between REST API and MQTT API

Learn when to use REST and MQTT to update a channel.

Write Data With Libelium Hardware

Write Data with Libelium Meshlium System

Use the ThingSpeak Cloud Connector with Libelium Meshlium hardware to easily store and analyze your data.

Write Data With Arduino and Particle Photon

Prototyping with Sonar Proximity Sensor

This example shows how to prototype with ThingSpeak™ using a Wi-Fi connected Arduino® board.

Publish to a Channel Using an Arduino Client

This example shows how to use an Arduino® MKR1000 board to record data in ThingSpeak™.

Bulk-Update Using an Arduino or an ESP8266

This example shows how to use either an Arduino® MKR1000 board or an ESP8266 board connected to a Wi-Fi® network to continuously collect Wi-Fi signal strength and bulk-update a ThingSpeak™ channel.

Bulk-Update a ThingSpeak Channel Using a Particle Photon Board

This example shows how to use a Particle Photon board connected to a Wi-Fi® network to bulk-update a ThingSpeak™ channel.

Publish to a Channel Using an Arduino Client

This example shows how to use an Arduino® MKR1000 board to record data in ThingSpeak™.

Publish Using Particle Photon Client

This example shows how to publish measured values to a ThingSpeak channel.

Write Data With ESP8266

Moisture Sensor using HTTP POST Requests to Channel

This example shows how to post multiple fields of data to a ThingSpeak™ channel from a device that wakes from deep sleep.

Post Temperature Data and Read from Channel

This example shows how to collect environmental data from a device and post it from your device to a ThingSpeak™ channel.

Remote Sensor Control Using MQTT Publish and Subscribe

This example demonstrates how to use the MQTT publish - subscribe architecture in ThingSpeak™.

Write Data With ESP32

Wireless Network Signal Strength with ESP32 with Arduino IDE

This example shows how to use the wireless network functionality of ESP32 to post data to ThingSpeak™.

Write Data With Raspberry Pi

Bulk-Update Using a Raspberry Pi Board

This example shows how to use a Raspberry Pi™ board that runs Python® 2.7 that is connected to a Wi-Fi® network to collect data.

Publish Using WebSockets in Python on a Raspberry Pi

This example shows how to use WebSockets on port 80 to publish to a ThingSpeak™ channel using a Raspberry Pi™ board that runs Python®.