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Simple POST request to influxdb
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test-post.py
import requests
headers = {"Authorization": "Token super-secret-token",
"Content-Type": "text/plain; charset=utf-8",
"Accept": "application/json"}
data = "airSensors,sensor_id=THP0101 temperature=37.94,humidity=35.231,pressure=1010"
res = requests.post("http://INFLUXDB_IP:8086/api/v2/write?org=home&bucket=weather-pi&precision=ns",
headers=headers,
data=data)
print(res)
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Sparrow0hawk commented Oct 17, 2022

Need to make changes here to include an authorisation token from InfluxDB and include it as the value for the Authorization key within the headers dictionary, change INFLUXDB_IP to the IP address of your influxdb instance, and change the URL parameter values for org and bucket to whatever organisation and bucket you've created via influxdb.

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