# Msg.payload to influxdb
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/msg-payload-to-influxdb/9066
**Category:** General
**Created:** [16 March 2019 19:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/msg-payload-to-influxdb/9066 "2019-03-16T19:59:32Z")
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### Author:  [@stibra](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/stibra)
#### Post date: [16 March 2019 19:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/msg-payload-to-influxdb/9066/1 "2019-03-16T19:59:32Z")
Hi,
My first node red flow here and a newbie question:
I am using openweathermap to get weather data in node red. How do I parse the payload.tempc including a timestamp to InfluxDB (Already created DB).
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Stian
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### Author:  [@Paul-Reed](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Paul-Reed)
#### Post date: [16 March 2019 20:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/msg-payload-to-influxdb/9066/2 "2019-03-16T20:59:26Z")
If you click the icon shown in my screenshot, it will copy the path to the value.
Paste that into a change node, and it will parse the value in your flow.
Something like this;
```auto
[{"id":"64e7a938.0aab58","type":"change","z":"a444a9ff.e7a408","name":"","rules":[{"t":"set","p":"payload","pt":"msg","to":"payload.humidity","tot":"msg"}],"action":"","property":"","from":"","to":"","reg":false,"x":170,"y":1150,"wires":[["335337e4.8fc348"]]}]
```
You don't necessarily need a timestamp as influx will add one itself, as it's a time series database.
You then need to setup your influx output node, take a look at the [examples in the influx contrib node](https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-influxdb), and feed the change node into it.
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### Author:  [@stibra](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/stibra)
#### Post date: [17 March 2019 17:06 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/msg-payload-to-influxdb/9066/3 "2019-03-17T17:06:31Z")
Excellent Thanks !