ThingSpeak Channels API
List, create, read, update, and delete ThingSpeak channels — the primary container for time-series IoT data. Each channel holds up to eight numeric fields plus latitude, longitude, elevation, and a status string. Channels can be public, private, or shared via read API keys.
ThingSpeak Channels API is one of 12 APIs that ThingSpeak publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition.
Tagged areas include IoT, Channels, Data, and Analytics. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an OpenAPI specification, a JSON-LD context, and 1 JSON Schema.
This API exposes 11 operations across 8 paths, and defines 7 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 1.0.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.thingspeak.com.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
ThingSpeak Channels API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
An API key is passed in the header as THINGSPEAKAPIKEY (UserApiKeyHeader).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
Paths & Operations 11
Across 8 paths, the API surfaces 11 operations — 2 DELETE, 7 GET, 1 POST, 1 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Schemas 7
The contract defines 7 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are ChannelInput (17 properties), Channel_2 (16 properties), UpdateRequest (14 properties), Channel (13 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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