# Google Maps Traffic API — Live Accidents, Closures & Incidents A travel tool your agent can run on one prepaid apifare key. Page: https://apifare.com/tools/sian.agency/google-maps-traffic-alerts ## What you need An apifare key with credits (sign up: POST https://apifare.com/v1/signup {"email": "..."}; new accounts get 500 free credits). No other account or key. ## Inputs - `bottomLeft` (string): Bottom-Left Corner (lat,lng) (e.g. "40.66615,-74.13732") - `topRight` (string): Top-Right Corner (lat,lng) (e.g. "40.77278,-73.76818") - `zoom` (integer): Detail Level (e.g. 13) - `incidentTypes` (array): Incident Types - `maxAreaQueries` (integer): Max Area Queries Per Run (e.g. 12) - `language` (string): Language (e.g. "en") The most relevant fields; the search result's input_schema lists all of them. ## Price 5 credits reserved per run, settled to the run's true cost, never more than 20 credits (1 credit = $0.01). Failed runs are refunded. Exact numbers: https://apifare.com/capabilities ## Run it 1. Find it: MCP search_apis, or GET https://apifare.com/v1/search?q=Google%20Maps%20Traffic%20API%20%E2%80%94%20Live%20Accidents%2C%20Closures%20%26%20Incidents with Authorization: Bearer . Take the result named "Google Maps Traffic API — Live Accidents, Closures & Incidents"; it carries a proxy_route. 2. Run it: MCP proxy_call with that proxy_route and the input JSON (apifare-mcp over stdio), or POST the proxy_route over HTTP with the input JSON as the body and the same Authorization header. 3. On HTTP 402, relay the body's human_readable field to your human verbatim, wait, then retry the same call. Every other error and its fix: https://apifare.com/errors.md