# Msg.payload to influxdb

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**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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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"]]}]

```

![value](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/2X/f/f582b4b244a03898892366304655f38ea8a0e04d.png)

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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