Waze Route & ETA Scraper

What does Waze Route & ETA Scraper do?

Waze Route & ETA Scraper takes an array of route request objects and pushes live route calculation, walking distance, or batch ETA results — one dataset row per request.

It talks directly to the same internal protocol the official Waze Android app uses (rt.waze.com), reverse-engineered by live MITM capture against a real device and cross-referenced against the app's own decompiled protobuf schema (see proto/waze_rt.proto, copied verbatim from Waze All-in-One API, this Actor's parent). No Waze account, no API key — each request mints its own short-lived anonymous session server-side. This is the route/ETA slice of that parent Actor, split out as its own focused, batch-run scraper.

Why use Waze Route & ETA Scraper?

• Three operations, one input array — route calculation, walking distance, and batch ETA, mixed freely in a single run
• Live traffic, not a static distance matrix — the same real-time routing engine behind the app's own navigation
• Batch ETA in one call per request — eta-batch fans one origin out to many destinations server-side, useful for dispatch/delivery routing without one route call per stop
• No account needed — every request authenticates itself anonymously
• Use cases: logistics/routing risk analysis, delivery dispatch ETA, travel-time estimation for many origin/destination pairs

How it connects to the parent

This Actor is a narrow spin-off of Waze All-in-One API, which exposes every reverse-engineered Waze endpoint as an always-on Standby REST API. This Actor wraps only the parent's /route, /walking-distance, and /eta-batch endpoints as a normal batch Actor: give it an input array, get a dataset of results back.

Input

Field	Type	Description
requests	array	Required. One or more route request objects (see below).

Each item in requests:

Field	Type	Applies to	Description
operation	string	all	"route", "walking-distance", or "eta-batch"
fromLat / fromLon	number	all	Origin coordinates
toLat / toLon	number	route, walking-distance	Destination coordinates
destinations	array of {lat, lon}	eta-batch	One or more destinations
vehicleType	string	route, eta-batch	Confirmed live values include "PRIVATE" (default), "MOTORCYCLE", "TAXI"
maxRoutes	integer	route	Number of route alternatives to return, default 3

Example:

{
    "requests": [
        { "operation": "route", "fromLat": -6.1754, "fromLon": 106.827, "toLat": -6.1274, "toLon": 106.6577 },
        { "operation": "walking-distance", "fromLat": -6.1754, "fromLon": 106.827, "toLat": -6.178, "toLon": 106.83 },
        {
            "operation": "eta-batch",
            "fromLat": -6.1754,
            "fromLon": 106.827,
            "destinations": [
                { "lat": -6.1274, "lon": 106.6577 },
                { "lat": -6.1954, "lon": 106.8206 }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

Output

One dataset row per request item, { request, result }:

{
    "request": { "operation": "route", "fromLat": -6.1754, "fromLon": 106.827, "toLat": -6.1274, "toLon": 106.6577 },
    "result": [
        { "totalLength": 31365, "totalSeconds": 1986 },
        { "totalLength": 27001, "totalSeconds": 2909 }
    ]
}

walking-distance result is a single number (meters) or null. eta-batch result is an array of { lat, lon, seconds }, echoing each destination with its live ETA in seconds (seconds is null if that leg failed).

Known limitations

• route results don't include route line geometry. Waze encodes it with Google's S2 cell geometry format, which isn't decoded by this Actor — distance, ETA, traffic comment, and warnings are all real-time and accurate, only the polyline itself is omitted. (Inherited from the parent.)
• A malformed request item (missing required fields for its operation) is skipped with a logged error rather than failing the whole run.
• This is an unofficial, reverse-engineered integration, not affiliated with or endorsed by Waze / Google. Behavior may change if Waze changes its protocol.

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.006 per route — charged once for each route/walking-distance/eta-batch request item successfully processed (Free plan price; lower on paid Apify plans). See the Actor's Pricing tab for current tiered rates.