# Waze Alerts and Traffic Jams by Area

> Waze Alerts and Traffic Jams by Area is a paid API for AI agents from openwebninja-x402.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Retrieves real-time Waze traffic alerts and traffic jams within a specified bounding box or radius around a center point.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://openwebninja-x402.vercel.app/api/waze/alerts-and-jams
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/waze-alerts-and-traffic-jams-by-area-217cb028
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_d2fclDlWijNzLg_6mFEX-

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability waze-alerts-and-traffic-jams-by-area-217cb028
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up all Waze traffic alerts and jams within a 5 KM radius of 37.7749,-122.4194 in San Francisco, limiting results to 50 alerts and 50 jams?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need live Waze-sourced traffic alerts and jam data for a geographic region, either by bounding box or center+radius. Prefer it over generic traffic APIs when Waze crowd-sourced incident data is needed, or when you want to filter by specific alert types/subtypes.

## Known failure modes

- Missing both bounding box and center+radius — returns error requiring one geographic input method
- Invalid coordinate format — returns validation error if lat/lon pattern is malformed
- radius_units not in enum (KM or MI) — returns validation error
- max_alerts or max_jams exceeds 100 — returns validation error
- No alerts or jams in the specified area — returns empty result sets
- Payment not included or insufficient — returns 402 Payment Required
- Waze upstream unavailable — may return 502 or timeout

## How this service works

Get Waze alerts and traffic jams in a bounding box or radius.

## Output

A list of real-time Waze traffic alerts (e.g. accidents, hazards, road closures) and traffic jams within the specified geographic area, filtered by type/subtype if requested, up to the specified maximum counts.

## Example request

```json
{
 "input": {
  "type": "http",
  "method": "GET",
  "queryParams": {
   "center": "37.7749,-122.4194",
   "radius": "5",
   "max_jams": 50,
   "max_alerts": 50,
   "radius_units": "KM"
  }
 }
}
```

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
     "properties": {
      "center": {
       "type": "string",
       "pattern": "^-?\\d+(\\.\\d+)?,-?\\d+(\\.\\d+)?$",
       "minLength": 3
      },
      "radius": {
       "type": "string",
       "minLength": 1
      },
      "max_jams": {
       "type": "integer",
       "maximum": 100,
       "minimum": 0
      },
      "top_right": {
       "type": "string",
       "pattern": "^-?\\d+(\\.\\d+)?,-?\\d+(\\.\\d+)?$",
       "minLength": 3
      },
      "max_alerts": {
       "type": "integer",
       "maximum": 100,
       "minimum": 0
      },
      "alert_types": {
       "type": "string",
       "minLength": 1
      },
      "bottom_left": {
       "type": "string",
       "pattern": "^-?\\d+(\\.\\d+)?,-?\\d+(\\.\\d+)?$",
       "minLength": 3
      },
      "radius_units": {
       "enum": [
        "KM",
        "MI"
       ],
       "type": "string"
      },
      "alert_subtypes": {
       "type": "string",
       "minLength": 1
      }
     },
     "additionalProperties": false
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/waze-alerts-and-traffic-jams-by-area-217cb028/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from openwebninja-x402.vercel.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/openwebninja-x402.vercel.app/llms.txt)