# Changelog of Waze API — Real-Time Traffic, Alerts & Road Incidents (`sian.agency/waze-traffic-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/sian.agency/waze-traffic-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/sian.agency/waze-traffic-scraper.md

## Changelog

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.