{"id":1269,"date":"2014-07-11T15:35:49","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T19:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2017-05-22T13:29:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T17:29:00","slug":"thingspeak-data-channels-now-with-more-metadata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/2014\/07\/11\/thingspeak-data-channels-now-with-more-metadata\/","title":{"rendered":"ThingSpeak Data Channels &#8211; Now With More Metadata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ThingSpeak user [DodBasim] \u00a0requested an additional\u00a0field inside of the ThingSpeak Data Channel. We named this new field &#8220;metadata&#8221;. This field works like the &#8220;status&#8221; field, but allows you to post any type of extra data along with your ThingSpeak Data Channel. An example would be to use the &#8220;metadata&#8221; field to store a JSON object that you want to parse with your application.<\/p>\n<pre style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">POST <span class=\"str\" style=\"color: #dd1144;\">https:\/\/api.thingspeak.com\/update<\/span>\r\n     api_key=<span class=\"customcode\" style=\"color: #00ab9b;\">XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX<\/span>\r\n     field1=<span class=\"customcode\" style=\"color: #00ab9b;\">73<\/span>\r\n     metadata=<span class=\"customcode\" style=\"color: #00ab9b;\">{\"officeTemp\":73}<\/span>\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>The full ThingSpeak Channels API is available on <a title=\"ThingSpeak Data Channel Documentation\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/help\/thingspeak\/channels-and-charts-api.html\" target=\"_blank\">ThingSpeak Docs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[via <a title=\"Meta data field added to ThingSpeak Data Channels\" href=\"https:\/\/community.thingspeak.com\/forum\/feature-requests\/more-metadata-fields-to-channel\/\" target=\"_blank\">ThingSpeak Forums<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ThingSpeak user [DodBasim] \u00a0requested an additional\u00a0field inside of the ThingSpeak Data Channel. We named this new field &#8220;metadata&#8221;. This field works like the &#8220;status&#8221; field,&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/2014\/07\/11\/thingspeak-data-channels-now-with-more-metadata\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[30,187,60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1269"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2132,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions\/2132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}