Read Last Field Entry Age

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

Request

HTTP Method

GET

URL

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

URL Parameters

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

Example: https://api.thingspeak.com/channels/266256/fields/2/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/fields/2/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/field/2/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/field/2/last_data_age.csv

The response is a CSV file with the age of the most recent feed, in seconds: last_data_age 59

 Text Example

GET https://api.thingspeak.com/channels/12397/field/2/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.