V16 Emergency Beacons Live Scraper (Spain)

🚨 Real-Time V16 Road Emergency Beacon Data Scraper

V16 Emergency Beacons Live Scraper is an Apify Actor that collects real-time data of active V16 emergency beacons in Spain, providing up-to-date information about road incidents, vehicle breakdowns, and emergency signaling devices.

This actor delivers structured, geolocated, and continuously updated V16 beacon data, making it ideal for traffic monitoring platforms, mobility services, research institutions, smart city projects, and road safety analytics.

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🔍 What data does this scraper collect?

• Live V16 emergency beacon locations
• GPS coordinates (latitude & longitude)
• Road and kilometer point (PK)
• Direction and orientation
• Municipality, province, and autonomous community
• Beacon activity status (active / lost)
• First and last detection timestamps

All data is returned in a single clean JSON output, ready for integration into dashboards, APIs, or data pipelines.

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✨ Key Features

• 🇪🇸 Nationwide coverage (Spain)
• ⏱️ Near real-time beacon updates
• 📍 Precise geolocation data
• 🛣️ Road-level context (carretera, PK, direction)
• 🔄 Automatic internal caching for performance
• 🧩 Zero configuration — no input required
• 📦 Production-ready JSON output

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▶️ How does it work?

This actor automatically fetches and decodes publicly available V16 emergency beacon data and normalizes it into a structured format.

✅ No input required

Simply run the actor and it will return all currently active V16 beacons across Spain.

🔮 Planned features

• Filter by province or autonomous community
• Historical beacon activity
• Status-based filtering
• Incremental updates

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📤 Output Example

{
  "count": 486,
  "results": [
    {
      "id": "19393205",
      "lat": 40.33462,
      "lon": -3.80976,
      "carretera": "R-5",
      "sentido": "Creciente",
      "orientacion": "Suroeste",
      "comunidad": "Comunidad de Madrid",
      "provincia": "Madrid",
      "municipio": "Leganés",
      "pk": 7.34,
      "firstSeen": "2026-01-03T15:26:04.911Z",
      "lastSeen": "2026-01-03T16:25:04.919Z",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "19393220",
      "lat": 38.76535,
      "lon": -3.38245,
      "carretera": "CR-6441",
      "sentido": "Creciente",
      "orientacion": "Este",
      "comunidad": "Castilla-La Mancha",
      "provincia": "Ciudad Real",
      "municipio": "Valdepeñas",
      "pk": 0.01,
      "firstSeen": "2026-01-03T15:26:04.911Z",
      "lastSeen": "2026-01-03T16:25:04.919Z",
      "status": "active"
    }
  ]
}

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🧠Common Use Cases

• 🚗 Traffic & incident monitoring systems
• 🛣️ Road safety and infrastructure analysis
• 🧭 Navigation and mobility platforms
• 🏙️ Smart city data aggregation
• 📊 Research and academic studies
• 🧪 Data science & machine learning pipelines

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⚖️ Legal & Compliance Notice

This actor only scrapes public, non-personal, road safety-related data.

No private user data is collected.

You are responsible for ensuring compliance with:

• Local and national regulations
• Applicable data usage policies
• Your specific business or research requirements

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💬 Support & Feedback

We actively maintain and improve this actor.

If you experience:

• Errors or missing data
• Performance issues
• Feature requests

Please open an issue via the Apify Actor Issues tab or contact:

📧 managerwebmaster@proton.me

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