FindChannels

FindChannels[]

gives a list of channels in your home area on the channel broker server.

FindChannels[None]

gives a list of your unnamed channels.

FindChannels[All]

gives a list of all channels owned by you.

FindChannels[form]

gives a list of channels in your home area whose names match the string pattern form.

FindChannels["/abspath"]

gives a list of channels whose names match the string pattern "/abspath".

FindChannels["mqtts://…"]

gives a list of channels whose names match the specified pattern representing a URL.

Details and Options

Examples

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Basic Examples  (1)

Create a few channels in your home area on the channel broker server:

And an anonymous channel:

Retrieve the channels in your home area from the server:

Retrieve your anonymous channels:

All your channels:

Delete the channels:

Scope  (7)

Basic Searches  (6)

List channels in your home area on the channel broker server:

List channels owned by you in the common area on the server:

All channels owned by you:

Find channels using an abbreviated string pattern:

Find channels using a StringExpression:

Channels in subdirectories of your home area:

Delete all the channels owned by you:

Advanced Searches  (1)

Search your channels by their absolute paths on the channel broker server:

Specify a pattern by URL:

Delete the channels:

Properties & Relations  (2)

Channels created with CreateChannel can be retrieved from the server with FindChannels:

Delete the channel:

If you know the channel name, you can create a ChannelObject reference for the channel immediately, without querying the server with FindChannels:

Retrieving the same reference from the server will typically be less efficient:

Delete the channel:

Possible Issues  (1)

An unescaped @ character in the username is treated as a wildcard:

Escape the @ character to find literal matches:

Wolfram Research (2016), FindChannels, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/FindChannels.html (updated 2020).

Text

Wolfram Research (2016), FindChannels, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/FindChannels.html (updated 2020).

CMS

Wolfram Language. 2016. "FindChannels." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2020. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/FindChannels.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (2016). FindChannels. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/FindChannels.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_findchannels, author="Wolfram Research", title="{FindChannels}", year="2020", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/FindChannels.html}", note=[Accessed: 27-July-2025 ]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2025_findchannels, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={FindChannels}, year={2020}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/FindChannels.html}, note=[Accessed: 27-July-2025 ]}