thingspeak/app/views/docs/channels/_update.html.erb

<div>
  <%= render 'response' %>
  <h2 id="update">Update Channel Feed</h2>
</div>

<br>
To update a Channel feed, send an HTTP GET or POST to<br>
<code><%= @ssl_api_domain %>update<span class="format format-json">.json</span><span class="format format-xml">.xml</span></code> .

<br><br>
Valid parameters:
<ul>
  <li><b>api_key</b> (string) - Write API Key for this specific Channel (required).  The Write API Key can optionally be sent via an X-THINGSPEAKAPIKEY HTTP header.</li>
  <li><b>field1</b> (string) - Field 1 data (optional)</li>
  <li><b>field2</b> (string) - Field 2 data (optional)</li>
  <li><b>field3</b> (string) - Field 3 data (optional)</li>
  <li><b>field4</b> (string) - Field 4 data (optional)</li>
  <li><b>field5</b> (string) - Field 5 data (optional)</li>
  <li><b>field6</b> (string) - Field 6 data (optional)</li>
  <li><b>field7</b> (string) - Field 7 data (optional)</li>
  <li><b>field8</b> (string) - Field 8 data (optional)</li>
  <li><b>lat</b> (decimal) - Latitude in degrees (optional)</li>
  <li><b>long</b> (decimal) - Longitude in degrees (optional)</li>
  <li><b>elevation</b> (integer) - Elevation in meters (optional)</li>
  <li><b>status</b> (string) - Status update message (optional)</li>
  <li><b>twitter</b> (string) - Twitter username linked to <a href="/docs/thingtweet">ThingTweet</a> (optional)</li>
  <li><b>tweet</b> (string) - Twitter status update; see <a href="/docs/thingtweet#update">updating ThingTweet</a> for more info (optional)</li>
  <li><b>created_at</b> (datetime) - Date when this feed entry was created, in the format<br>YYYY-MM-DD%20HH:NN:SS (optional)</li>
</ul>

<br>
Example POST:

<pre>
POST <span class="str"><%= @ssl_api_domain %>update<span class="format format-json">.json</span><span class="format format-xml">.xml</span></span>
     api_key=<span class="customcode"><%= @channel_api_key %></span>
     field1=<span class="customcode">73</span>
</pre>

<br>

<div class="format format-block-xl format-text">
  The response will be the entry ID of the update, for example: <code>18</code>
  <br><br>
  If the response is <code>0</code> then the update failed.
</div>

<div class="format format-block-xl format-json">
  The response will be a JSON object of the new feed, for example:

<pre class="prettyprint">
{
  "channel_id": 3,
  "field1": "73",
  "field2": null,
  "field3": null,
  "field4": null,
  "field5": null,
  "field6": null,
  "field7": null,
  "field8": null,
  "created_at": "2014-02-25T14:13:01-05:00",
  "entry_id": 320,
  "status": null,
  "latitude": null,
  "longitude": null,
  "elevation": null,
  "location":null
}
</pre>

</div>

<div class="format format-block-xl format-xml">
  The response will be an XML object of the new feed, for example:

<pre class="prettyprint">
&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
&lt;feed>
  &lt;channel-id type="integer">3&lt;/channel-id>
  &lt;field1>73&lt;/field1>
  &lt;field2 nil="true"/>
  &lt;field3 nil="true"/>
  &lt;field4 nil="true"/>
  &lt;field5 nil="true"/>
  &lt;field6 nil="true"/>
  &lt;field7 nil="true"/>
  &lt;field8 nil="true"/>
  &lt;created-at type="dateTime">2014-02-25T14:15:42-05:00&lt;/created-at>
  &lt;entry-id type="integer">321&lt;/entry-id>
  &lt;status nil="true"/>
  &lt;latitude type="decimal" nil="true"/>
  &lt;longitude type="decimal" nil="true"/>
  &lt;elevation nil="true"/>
  &lt;location nil="true"/>
&lt;/feed>
</pre>

</div>