Read Last Entry Age

Read number of seconds since last entry in channel with HTTP GET

Request

HTTP Method

GET

URL

https://api.thingspeak.com/channels/<channel_id>/feeds/last_data_age.<format>

URL Parameters

Name	Description
<channel_id>	(Required) Channel ID for the channel of interest.
<format>	(Required) Format for the HTTP response, specified as json, xml, csv, or txt.

Example URL: https://api.thingspeak.com/channels/266256/feeds/last_data_age.json

Query String Parameters

There are no available parameters for this request.

Response

Success

HTTP Status Code

200 OK

Body

 JSON Example

GET https://api.thingspeak.com/channels/12397/feeds/last_data_age.json

The response is a JSON object with the age of the most recent value,in seconds: { "last_data_age": "174", "last_data_age_units": "s" }

 XML Example

GET https://api.thingspeak.com/channels/12397/feeds/last_data_age.xml

The response is an XML object with the age of the most recent feed, in seconds: <?xml version="1.0"?> <feed> <last_data_age type="integer">174</last_data_age> <last_data_age_units type="string">s</last_data_age_units> </feed>

 CSV Example

GET https://api.thingspeak.com/channels/12397/feeds/last_data_age.csv

The response is a CSV object with the age of the most recent feed, in seconds: created_at,entry_id,field1,field2 2017-10-10 20:49:15 UTC,13031235,428,65.138004246284495 2017-10-10 20:49:28 UTC,13031236,442,66.496815286624198

 Text Example

GET https://api.thingspeak.com/channels/12397/feeds/last_data_age.txt

The response is the age of the most recent value, in seconds: 174

Error

For the full list, see Error Codes.

If you do not have access to the channel, the response is -1.