# ThingSpeak Channels API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/thingspeak/thingspeak-channels-api/  
**Provider:** ThingSpeak — https://apis.io/providers/thingspeak/  
**Base URL:** https://api.thingspeak.com/  
**Documentation:** https://www.mathworks.com/help/thingspeak/channelsapi.html

ThingSpeak Channels API is one of 12 APIs that [ThingSpeak](https://apis.io/providers/thingspeak/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://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.

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.

## Machine-readable artifacts (17)

- **Documentation** — https://www.mathworks.com/help/thingspeak/channelsapi.html
- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/thingspeak/refs/heads/main/openapi/thingspeak-channels-api-openapi.yml
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/thingspeak/refs/heads/main/json-schema/thingspeak-channel-schema.json
- **JSONLD** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/thingspeak/refs/heads/main/json-ld/thingspeak-context.jsonld
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/thingspeak/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
- **Arazzo** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/thingspeak/refs/heads/main/arazzo/thingspeak-bulk-update-and-read-field-feed-workflow.yml
- **Arazzo** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/thingspeak/refs/heads/main/arazzo/thingspeak-decommission-channel-workflow.yml
- **Arazzo** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/thingspeak/refs/heads/main/arazzo/thingspeak-discover-public-channel-and-read-feed-workflow.yml
- **Arazzo** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/thingspeak/refs/heads/main/arazzo/thingspeak-inspect-channel-and-aggregate-feed-workflow.yml
- **Arazzo** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/thingspeak/refs/heads/main/arazzo/thingspeak-list-channels-and-read-feed-workflow.yml
- **Arazzo** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/thingspeak/refs/heads/main/arazzo/thingspeak-post-status-and-read-status-updates-workflow.yml
- **Arazzo** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/thingspeak/refs/heads/main/arazzo/thingspeak-provision-channel-and-seed-reading-workflow.yml
- **Arazzo** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/thingspeak/refs/heads/main/arazzo/thingspeak-queue-and-execute-talkback-command-workflow.yml
- **Arazzo** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/thingspeak/refs/heads/main/arazzo/thingspeak-relabel-field-and-read-last-field-entry-workflow.yml
- **Arazzo** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/thingspeak/refs/heads/main/arazzo/thingspeak-revise-queued-talkback-command-workflow.yml
- **Arazzo** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/thingspeak/refs/heads/main/arazzo/thingspeak-sweep-executed-talkback-commands-workflow.yml
- **Arazzo** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/thingspeak/refs/heads/main/arazzo/thingspeak-write-update-and-read-last-entry-workflow.yml

## Other ThingSpeak APIs (11)

- [ThingSpeak Update API](https://apis.io/apis/thingspeak/thingspeak-update-api/)
- [ThingSpeak MQTT API](https://apis.io/apis/thingspeak/thingspeak-mqtt-api/)
- [ThingSpeak React API](https://apis.io/apis/thingspeak/thingspeak-react-api/)
- [ThingSpeak Alerts API](https://apis.io/apis/thingspeak/thingspeak-alerts-api/)
- [ThingSpeak Charts API](https://apis.io/apis/thingspeak/thingspeak-charts-api/)
- [ThingSpeak MATLAB Analysis API](https://apis.io/apis/thingspeak/thingspeak-matlab-analysis-api/)
- [ThingSpeak MATLAB Visualization API](https://apis.io/apis/thingspeak/thingspeak-matlab-visualization-api/)
- [ThingSpeak ThingHTTP API](https://apis.io/apis/thingspeak/thingspeak-thinghttp-api/)
- [ThingSpeak TimeControl API](https://apis.io/apis/thingspeak/thingspeak-timecontrol-api/)
- [ThingSpeak Channels.json API](https://apis.io/apis/thingspeak/thingspeak-channels-json-api/)
- [ThingSpeak Talkbacks API](https://apis.io/apis/thingspeak/thingspeak-talkbacks-api/)

## Tags

IoT, Channels, Data, Analytics

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