Waze Real-time API

Waze Real-time API

Waze Real-time API gets live data from Waze: accidents, hazards, police, road closures and traffic jams in any map area, Waze driving directions with travel time, tolls and incidents on the route, venues by category, and place autocomplete. Results come back as clean JSON, CSV or Excel, or through the Apify API.

Draw a map rectangle anywhere Waze covers and get every live incident and jam with type, subtype, street, coordinates, jam level, speed, length and full polyline, or send start and end coordinates and get up to five Waze routes with ETA, distance, toll price, HOV flags and the alerts and jams on each route.

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Apify Actor: parsebird/waze-api (Waze Real-time API). Gets live Waze Live Map data. Call via ApifyClient: client.actor("parsebird/waze-api").call(run_input={"operation": "alertsAndJams", "bottomLeft": "40.66615,-74.13732", "topRight": "40.77278,-73.76818", "maxAlerts": 20, "maxJams": 20, "alertTypes": "ACCIDENT,HAZARD,POLICE,ROAD_CLOSED"}). Pick one operation per run: "alertsAndJams" | "drivingDirections" | "venues" | "autocomplete". Coordinates are strings "latitude,longitude". alertsAndJams and venues inputs: bottomLeft, topRight (map rectangle corners), mapAreas (array of extra areas "lat,lng;lat,lng"), maxAlerts (int, default 20, 0 skips alerts; Waze returns at most 200 per request and the actor splits large areas automatically), maxJams (int, default 20), alertTypes (comma list: ACCIDENT, HAZARD, POLICE, ROAD_CLOSED, JAM), alertSubtypes (comma list, e.g. HAZARD_ON_ROAD_CONSTRUCTION). drivingDirections inputs: sourceCoordinates, destinationCoordinates, routePairs (array "startLat,startLng;endLat,endLng"), maxRoutes (1-5, default 3), returnRouteCoordinates (bool, default false), arrivalTimestamp or departureTimestamp (Unix seconds). venues inputs: venueCategories (comma list, e.g. "gas station,parking,ev charging station"), maxVenues (default 100), onlyInsideArea (default true). autocomplete inputs: autocompleteQuery, autocompleteQueries (array), searchNear ("lat,lng"), maxResultsPerQuery (default 10), language (default "en"). Output: one flat row per item in the default dataset, tagged by recordType ("alert" | "jam" | "route" | "venue" | "place", plus "empty" or "error" rows for areas or queries without results). Alert fields: alertId, alertType, alertSubtype, alertDescription, street, latitude, longitude, reportBy, provider, numThumbsUp, publishDatetimeUtc, wazeUrl. Jam fields: jamId, street, city, endNode, jamLevel (0-5), speedKmh, lengthMeters, lineCoordinates, isBlocked, causeAlertType, updateDatetimeUtc. Route fields: routeName, durationSeconds, durationMinutes, lengthMeters, lengthKm, isFastest, isToll, tollPrice, tollCurrency, isHov, routeAlerts, routeJams, routeCoordinates. Venue/place fields: venueName, address, latitude, longitude, venueId, venueSource, venueCategory or query. Pricing: pay per event: "alert-query" per map area, "driving-route" per route returned, "venues-query" per map area, "autocomplete-query" per query. Full API spec: https://apify.com/parsebird/waze-api/api. Get your token: https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations.

What is Waze Real-time API?

Waze Real-time API turns the Waze Live Map into structured data. Waze is a navigation app whose drivers report accidents, police, hazards and closures as they happen, and whose traffic layer shows where cars are moving slowly. This actor gives you that live Waze traffic data for any area you choose, plus Waze driving directions, without a Waze partnership or a Waze API key.

The easiest way to try it: keep Alerts & Jams selected with the prefilled New York City rectangle and click Start. In a minute or so you get the latest incidents and jams in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and Jersey City as a table you can download. It works as a Waze API alternative for live traffic, incident monitoring and routing.

What can Waze Real-time API do?

• 🚨 Live alerts. Accidents, hazards (construction, potholes, stopped cars, emergency vehicles...), police, road closures and jam reports in a map rectangle, newest first.
• 🚗 Traffic jams. Jam level from 0 to 5, average speed, length, street, city, the full jam polyline, and the alert that caused a closure.
• 🔍 Filters. Keep only the alert types or subtypes you need, for example ACCIDENT,POLICE or HAZARD_ON_ROAD_CONSTRUCTION.
• 🧩 Past the 200-item limit. Waze returns at most 200 alerts and 200 jams for one map view. When you ask for more, the actor splits the area into smaller tiles and merges the results without duplicates.
• 🗺️ Driving directions. Up to five Waze route alternatives per trip with travel time, distance, toll price (with and without a toll pass where Waze shows it), HOV requirements and the alerts and jams on each route. Plan for a departure or arrival time.
• 📍 Venues and autocomplete. Find gas stations, parking, EV chargers, restaurants and other places in an area, or get the same place suggestions as the Waze search box.
• 📦 Batch runs. Add many map areas, routes or search queries to one run.
• 🌍 Worldwide. Works in all three Waze regions (North America, Israel and the rest of the world); the actor picks the right one from your coordinates.
• 📅 Scheduling, API and integrations. Run every few minutes with Apify Schedules, call it from the Apify API, or send results to Google Sheets, Slack, Zapier, Make or webhooks with Apify integrations. Export as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML.

What data can you extract from Waze?

Field	Record type	Description
recordType	all	alert, jam, route, venue or place (empty / error rows explain areas or queries with no result)
alertType, alertSubtype	alert	ACCIDENT, HAZARD, POLICE, ROAD_CLOSED, JAM and subtypes such as HAZARD_ON_ROAD_CONSTRUCTION
alertDescription	alert	Text description, when the reporter or partner added one
street, latitude, longitude	alert, jam	Location of the incident or the start of the jam
reportBy, provider	alert	Partner that reported the alert (e.g. a city or a towing service), when it isn't a regular Waze user
publishDatetimeUtc	alert	When the alert was reported
jamLevel	jam	Congestion level from 0 (free flow) to 5 (blocked)
speedKmh, lengthMeters	jam	Average speed on the jam and its length
lineCoordinates	jam	Full jam polyline as latitude/longitude points
city, endNode	jam	City and the street where the jam ends
isBlocked, causeAlertType	jam	Whether the road is closed, and the alert behind the closure
routeName, durationMinutes, lengthKm	route	Waze's route name, travel time and distance
isFastest, isToll, tollPrice, tollCurrency, isHov	route	Route flags and the estimated toll
routeAlerts, routeJams	route	Incidents and jams on the route
routeCoordinates	route	Full route polyline (when Include route coordinates is on)
venueName, address, venueSource	venue, place	Place name, address and whether it is a Waze or Google place
wazeUrl	alert, venue, place	Link that opens the point in Waze

How to use Waze Real-time API

1. Open Waze Real-time API in Apify Console and sign in (or create a free Apify account).
2. Choose an Operation: Alerts & Jams, Driving Directions, Venues or Autocomplete.
3. For Alerts & Jams or Venues, enter the Bottom-left corner and Top-right corner of a rectangle as latitude,longitude. In Google Maps, right-click a point to copy its coordinates. Add more rectangles in More map areas.
4. For Driving Directions, enter a Start point and a Destination, and optionally an arrival or departure time.
5. For Autocomplete, type a search text and a Search near location.
6. Click Start, then download the results from the Output tab as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read them through the API.

How much does Waze Real-time API cost?

Waze Real-time API uses pay-per-event pricing. Compute and proxy costs are included in the event prices; there are no other usage charges for the run.

Event	When it's charged	Free	Bronze	Silver	Gold
alert-query	Once per successful Alerts & Jams query (one map area), with all its alerts and jams	$0.00999	$0.00699	$0.00599	$0.00499
driving-route	Per route returned by Driving Directions, including its on-route alerts and jams	$0.00399	$0.00349	$0.00299	$0.00249
venues-query	Once per successful Venues query (one map area), with all its venues	$0.00899	$0.00799	$0.00749	$0.00699
autocomplete-query	Once per successful Autocomplete query	$0.00899	$0.00599	$0.00499	$0.00399

Per 1,000 events on the Free plan: $9.99 per 1,000 map areas, $3.99 per 1,000 routes, $8.99 per 1,000 venue areas and $8.99 per 1,000 autocomplete queries. For example, checking 50 delivery zones for incidents costs 50 × $0.00999 = $0.50 on the Free plan, and one trip with 3 alternative routes costs 3 × $0.00399 = $0.012. A map area is charged once, however many alerts it holds, including large areas the actor splits into tiles. Areas or queries that fail are not charged. Set a maximum cost per run in Apify Console and the actor stops when it's reached.

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
operation	string	Yes	alertsAndJams	alertsAndJams, drivingDirections, venues or autocomplete
bottomLeft	string	Yes*	—	South-west corner, latitude,longitude (Alerts & Jams, Venues)
topRight	string	Yes*	—	North-east corner, latitude,longitude (Alerts & Jams, Venues)
mapAreas	string[]	No	—	More areas, each bottomLeftLat,bottomLeftLng;topRightLat,topRightLng
maxAlerts	integer	No	20	Max alerts per area (0 skips alerts)
maxJams	integer	No	20	Max jams per area (0 skips jams)
alertTypes	string	No	all	Comma list: ACCIDENT,HAZARD,POLICE,ROAD_CLOSED,JAM
alertSubtypes	string	No	all	Comma list of alert subtypes
sourceCoordinates	string	Yes*	—	Route start, latitude,longitude (Driving Directions)
destinationCoordinates	string	Yes*	—	Route end, latitude,longitude (Driving Directions)
routePairs	string[]	No	—	More routes, each startLat,startLng;endLat,endLng
maxRoutes	integer	No	3	Alternative routes per trip (1-5)
returnRouteCoordinates	boolean	No	false	Include the full route polyline and jam polylines
arrivalTimestamp	integer	No	—	Arrive by this time (Unix seconds)
departureTimestamp	integer	No	—	Depart at this time (Unix seconds)
venueCategories	string	No	6 common categories	Comma list, e.g. gas station,parking,ev charging station (Venues)
maxVenues	integer	No	100	Max venues per area (Venues)
onlyInsideArea	boolean	No	true	Drop venues just outside the rectangle (Venues)
autocompleteQuery	string	Yes*	—	Search text (Autocomplete)
autocompleteQueries	string[]	No	—	More search texts (Autocomplete)
searchNear	string	Yes*	—	Location to search around, latitude,longitude (Autocomplete; falls back to the map area's center)
maxResultsPerQuery	integer	No	10	Max suggestions per query (Autocomplete)
language	string	No	en	Language for place names (Venues, Autocomplete)

*Required for the operation that uses it.

Alerts & Jams:

{
    "operation": "alertsAndJams",
    "bottomLeft": "40.66615,-74.13732",
    "topRight": "40.77278,-73.76818",
    "maxAlerts": 20,
    "maxJams": 20,
    "alertTypes": "ACCIDENT,HAZARD,POLICE,ROAD_CLOSED"
}

Driving Directions:

{
    "operation": "drivingDirections",
    "sourceCoordinates": "32.0853,34.781767",
    "destinationCoordinates": "32.794046,34.989571",
    "returnRouteCoordinates": true
}

Venues:

{
    "operation": "venues",
    "bottomLeft": "40.745,-74.0",
    "topRight": "40.765,-73.97",
    "venueCategories": "parking,ev charging station"
}

Autocomplete:

{
    "operation": "autocomplete",
    "autocompleteQuery": "JFK airport",
    "searchNear": "40.758,-73.9855"
}

Output example

An alert (empty fields left out):

{
    "recordType": "alert",
    "alertId": "alert-223130808/ff9e343d-5f67-4ba7-b241-3acf4a74485c",
    "uuid": "ff9e343d-5f67-4ba7-b241-3acf4a74485c",
    "alertType": "HAZARD",
    "alertSubtype": "HAZARD_ON_ROAD_EMERGENCY_VEHICLE",
    "alertDescription": "Responding ambulance nearby",
    "street": "Logan St",
    "latitude": 40.680104,
    "longitude": -73.877415,
    "reportBy": "HAAS Alert",
    "provider": "HAAS Alert 2",
    "publishDatetimeUtc": "2026-10-19T23:36:37.000Z",
    "wazeUrl": "https://www.waze.com/ul?ll=40.680104,-73.877415&navigate=yes",
    "areaIndex": 0,
    "mapArea": "40.55,-74.25;40.92,-73.7",
    "_operation": "alertsAndJams",
    "status": "success",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-19T23:36:46.109Z"
}

A jam caused by a road closure:

{
    "recordType": "jam",
    "jamId": 1683499950,
    "street": "S 14th St",
    "city": "Newark, NJ",
    "endNode": "Madison Ave",
    "jamLevel": 5,
    "speedKmh": 0,
    "speedMetersPerSecond": 0,
    "lengthMeters": 302,
    "latitude": 40.722991,
    "longitude": -74.211216,
    "lineCoordinates": [
        { "latitude": 40.722991, "longitude": -74.211216 },
        { "latitude": 40.725601, "longitude": -74.210219 }
    ],
    "numSegments": 1,
    "isBlocked": true,
    "causeAlertId": "alert-223174678/27b05a40-9c98-41a8-a393-41c613f3d1b0",
    "causeAlertType": "ROAD_CLOSED",
    "causeAlertReliability": 5,
    "country": "US",
    "updateDatetimeUtc": "2026-10-20T00:22:55.539Z",
    "blockedSinceUtc": "2026-10-19T23:50:44.456Z",
    "areaIndex": 0,
    "mapArea": "40.55,-74.25;40.92,-73.7",
    "_operation": "alertsAndJams",
    "status": "success",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-20T00:23:34.948Z"
}

A route (lists shortened):

{
    "recordType": "route",
    "routeIndex": 0,
    "routeName": "I-495 / Qns-Midtown Tun Queens (12.03)",
    "durationSeconds": 3476,
    "durationMinutes": 57.9,
    "lengthMeters": 27685,
    "lengthKm": 27.68,
    "lengthMiles": 17.2,
    "isFastest": true,
    "isToll": true,
    "isHov": false,
    "tollPrice": 12.03,
    "tollCurrency": "USD",
    "tollPassName": "E-ZPass - NY",
    "tollPriceWithPass": 7.46,
    "routeLabel": "Best route with toll",
    "trafficStatus": "despite heavier traffic than usual",
    "routeAlerts": [
        { "alertId": "221602133", "alertType": "POLICE", "alertSubtype": "NO_SUBTYPE", "latitude": 40.674009, "longitude": -73.84331 }
    ],
    "routeJams": [
        { "jamId": 1665013358, "severity": 0, "startLatitude": 40.753517, "startLongitude": -73.988787, "endLatitude": 40.752317, "endLongitude": -73.985947 }
    ],
    "numRouteAlerts": 5,
    "numRouteJams": 6,
    "sourceCoordinates": "40.758,-73.9855",
    "destinationCoordinates": "40.6413,-73.7781",
    "_operation": "drivingDirections",
    "status": "success"
}

A venue:

{
    "recordType": "venue",
    "rank": 5,
    "venueName": "Tesla Destination Charger - GGMC 217 E 44th St",
    "venueId": "venues.187433368.1874530283.9033685",
    "venueSource": "waze",
    "address": "E 44th St, Manhattan",
    "latitude": 40.7519,
    "longitude": -73.9726372,
    "wazeUrl": "https://www.waze.com/ul?ll=40.7519,-73.9726372&navigate=yes",
    "areaIndex": 0,
    "mapArea": "40.745,-74;40.765,-73.97",
    "venueCategory": "ev charging station",
    "insideMapArea": true,
    "_operation": "venues",
    "status": "success",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-20T00:24:10.617Z"
}

Download the dataset in JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML from the Output tab. The Console has separate table views for alerts, jams, routes and venues.

Use the Waze Real-time API from your code

Start the actor and read its results with the Apify API clients. Find your token in Apify Console → Settings → Integrations.

Python (apify-client):

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("parsebird/waze-api").call(run_input={
    "operation": "alertsAndJams",
    "bottomLeft": "34.0,-118.35",
    "topRight": "34.1,-118.2",
    "maxAlerts": 100,
    "maxJams": 50,
    "alertTypes": "ACCIDENT,ROAD_CLOSED",
})
for row in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    if row["recordType"] == "alert":
        print(row["alertType"], row["street"], row["latitude"], row["longitude"])
    elif row["recordType"] == "jam":
        print("jam", row["street"], row["jamLevel"], row["speedKmh"])

JavaScript (apify-client):

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('parsebird/waze-api').call({
    operation: 'drivingDirections',
    sourceCoordinates: '40.758,-73.9855',
    destinationCoordinates: '40.6413,-73.7781',
    maxRoutes: 3,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items
    .filter((r) => r.recordType === 'route')
    .forEach((r) => console.log(r.routeName, r.durationMinutes, 'min', r.isToll ? `toll ${r.tollPrice} ${r.tollCurrency}` : 'no toll'));

Use cases

• Logistics and fleet routing: check delivery corridors for closures and accidents, and compare Waze route alternatives with on-route alerts before dispatching drivers.
• Mobility and traffic analytics: run a grid of map areas on a schedule and build congestion datasets from jam level, speed and length.
• Insurance and risk monitoring: count accidents and hazards per zone over time as a road-risk signal.
• News and public safety: watch an area for road closures, police activity and major hazards with street names and coordinates.
• Navigation and mapping products: add Waze's crowd-sourced incidents, toll estimates and HOV information to your own routing.

How it works

1. You choose an operation and give coordinates or search texts.
2. The actor works out which Waze region each point belongs to (North America, Israel or the rest of the world) and requests the same live data that the Waze Live Map shows.
3. For Alerts & Jams, if a map area hits Waze's limit of 200 alerts or 200 jams and you asked for more, the area is split into four tiles (and those again, if needed) and the results are merged without duplicates.
4. Each alert, jam, route, venue or suggestion is saved as one flat row with a recordType, and each query is charged once it succeeds.

FAQ

How fresh is the data? It is live: each run returns what Waze shows at that moment. Alerts include their report time (publishDatetimeUtc) and jams their last update time (updateDatetimeUtc). To track changes, schedule the actor to run every few minutes.

How big can a map area be? Any size, but Waze returns at most 200 alerts and 200 jams per map view, which a busy city fills easily. If Max alerts or Max jams is above what one request returns, the actor splits the area into tiles automatically (up to 64 requests per area), still charged as one query. For a whole metro area, several smaller areas in More map areas give you more even coverage.

Which alerts come first? Alerts are sorted newest first and jams by severity (jam level, then length) before Max alerts and Max jams are applied.

Why are some alert fields empty? Waze fills alertDescription, reportBy and provider only for some alerts, mostly ones from partners such as cities and road services. Waze's area view doesn't include a city, country or reliability score for individual alerts. Jams have a city, and jams caused by a closure carry the closure's country and reliability.

Can I get directions between any two points? Within one Waze region, yes. Waze doesn't return a route for very long or impossible trips (in our tests New York to Los Angeles returned no route); the actor then saves an error row with the reason and doesn't charge for it.

What does the Venues operation return? Venues searches the area for each category you list (for example parking) using Waze's place search and keeps the places inside your rectangle. Waze returns a limited number of places per search, so it finds the main places for each category rather than every business in a city. Use more specific categories or smaller areas for more results.

How long does a run take? The first result usually arrives within a minute, because the actor first opens a session with Waze. After that, each extra map area, route or query takes a few seconds. Batch many areas or routes into one run rather than starting one run per query.

Can I schedule runs and connect them to other tools? Yes. Use Apify Schedules for recurring runs and integrations for Google Sheets, Slack, Zapier, Make, n8n or webhooks. Results are also available through the API.

Something doesn't work or a field is missing? Open an issue on the actor's Issues tab with the input you used, and we'll look into it.

Is it legal to get data from Waze?

This actor reads traffic information that Waze shows publicly on its Live Map to anyone, without logging in. Alerts and jams describe road conditions, not people, and the actor doesn't collect user names or accounts. You are still responsible for how you use the data: follow Waze's terms of service and the laws that apply to you. Read more in Apify's blog post Is web scraping legal?, and ask a lawyer if you're unsure.

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