# Send HTTP POST request to InfluxDB manually with browser

**URL:** <https://community.influxdata.com/t/send-http-post-request-to-influxdb-manually-with-browser/26747>\
**Category:** InfluxDB 2\
**Tags:** influxdb, iot\
**Created:** [September 27, 2022, 3:55pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/send-http-post-request-to-influxdb-manually-with-browser/26747 "2022-09-27T15:55:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![\_OD](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/_od/32/11143_2.png) [@\_OD](https://community.influxdata.com/u/_OD)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2022, 3:55pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/send-http-post-request-to-influxdb-manually-with-browser/26747/1 "2022-09-27T15:55:36Z")

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**Hello** ,

I’m currently using grafana to visualize data from InfluxDB, and would like to use a hyperlink in form of a HTTP request from a dashboard to insert data into the database.

Is something like this possible?

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**Author:** ![Jay\_Clifford](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/jay_clifford/32/8287_2.png) [@Jay\_Clifford](https://community.influxdata.com/u/Jay_Clifford)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 9:57am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/send-http-post-request-to-influxdb-manually-with-browser/26747/2 "2022-09-28T09:57:22Z")

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Hi @_OD,  
Welcome to the community! So yes absolutely possible as a string value. You would then have to ask grafana to map that string as a URL. I would advise saving your URL as a field rather than a tag as depending on the length of the hyper links and how many you have this can lead to cardinality issues

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**Author:** ![\_OD](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/_od/32/11143_2.png) [@\_OD](https://community.influxdata.com/u/_OD)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2022, 7:22am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/send-http-post-request-to-influxdb-manually-with-browser/26747/3 "2022-09-30T07:22:27Z")

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Hello Jay,

Thank you for a quick and relevant response. Would it be possible to also send an example, which I could paste into my browser, and which would insert the data? I’m trying to set datalinks for my panels, and by clicking on a specific data point, some information about that point would get passed to the DB, and after would trigger an influx task.

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**Author:** ![Jay\_Clifford](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/jay_clifford/32/8287_2.png) [@Jay\_Clifford](https://community.influxdata.com/u/Jay_Clifford)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2022, 9:42am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/send-http-post-request-to-influxdb-manually-with-browser/26747/4 "2022-10-05T09:42:48Z")

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HI @_OD  
You would need to check for examples with grafana on how to do that. I would just store your URL as a string or tag within influxDB like you are your other fields and tags.