Read last update from thingspeak

read_thingspeak.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
import urllib2,json
CHANNEL_ID=203342

def main():
    conn = urllib2.urlopen("http://api.thingspeak.com/channels/%s/feeds/last.json" % (CHANNEL_ID))

    response = conn.read()
    print "http status code=%s" % (conn.getcode())
    data=json.loads(response)
    print "field1: ",data['field1']," ",data['created_at']
    conn.close()



if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()