Choose How to Write Data

Ways to Write Data

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

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 Distributed Sensor Data from The Things Network

Write Data from The Things Network

Use a ThingSpeak integration with The Things Network to write data from devices connected on a LoRa^®network.

Collect Agricultural Data over The Things Network

This example shows how to set up data collection from three sensors connected to a microprocessor board with a LoRa® radio.

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.

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 ThingSpeak Channel Using a Particle Device Client via MQTT

This example shows how to publish measured values to a ThingSpeak channel via MQTT using a Particle device such as a Boron, Argon, Photon, or Electron.

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.

Publish and Subscribe to a ThingSpeak Channel Using Secure MQTT

This example shows how to use an ESP8266 board to record RSSI data in ThingSpeak™ via secure MQTT.

Remote Sensor Control Using Secure MQTT Publish and Subscribe

This example shows how to use the MQTT publish and 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 collect data using a Wi-Fi-connected Raspberry Pi board running Python 2.7.

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.