Pull real-time Waze traffic data via API: accidents, hazards, police reports, road closures and live jams in any map area, plus driving directions with on-route alerts and venue search. Clean geo-coded JSON rows for logistics, routing, fleet and mobility analytics. No Waze account needed.
All notable changes to Waze API — Real-Time Traffic, Alerts & Road Incidents will be documented in this file.
[2026-06-06]
🎉 Waze API — Real-Time Traffic Scraper - Launch!
Alerts & Jams by Map Area - Pull live accidents, hazards, police reports, road closures and traffic jams from Waze's crowd-sourced network for any bounding box, one row per incident.
Driving Directions with On-Route Incidents - Get candidate Waze routes between two points, each with its on-route alerts, toll pricing, HOV flags and arrival-time targeting — real-time traffic data no standard directions API exposes.
Venue Search - Extract points of interest inside any map area with normalized coordinates and categories.
Run-Completion Telegram & Telemetry - Every run reports rows, tier and remaining upstream quota.
Clean Geo on Every Row - Latitude/longitude on every incident, full jam and route polylines preserved, GeoJSON venue points normalized — ready to map.
💎 User Benefits
Tap the world's largest crowd-sourced traffic network without a Waze account or your own API key.
Predictable per-query pricing on bounding-box operations — a busy city costs the same as a quiet one.
Three operations in one actor: real-time traffic data, driving directions and venues.
One clean, flat dataset per run — filter by _operation and recordType, export to JSON, CSV or Excel.
🎯 Use Cases
Logistics dispatchers rerouting fleets around live accidents and road closures.
Mobility researchers building congestion heatmaps from scheduled bounding-box runs.
Insurance underwriters scoring accident and hazard density per zone.
Local newsrooms surfacing real-time road closures and police activity.
Navigation products enriching routes with crowd-sourced on-route incidents.
