DriveBC's Open511 API API

Overview

This API is DriveBC's implementation of the Open511 specification. It provides information about known road events (traffic accidents, construction, etc.) in British Columbia, Canada. Please note that you may experience issues when submitting requests to the delivery or test environment if using this [OpenAPI specification](https://github.com/bcgov/api-specs) in other API console viewers.

DriveBC's Open511 API is an open data API from gov.bc.ca. It needs no API key. It is served over plain HTTP. Its OpenAPI description documents 4 endpoints.

At a glance

Authentication

No auth

HTTPS

No

CORS

Unknown

Category

Open Data

Base URL

http://api.open511.gov.bc.ca/

Version

1.0.0

Endpoints

4

OpenAPI

Specification ↗

Spec updated

2021-06-21

Make a first request

Replace the placeholders; the documentation says exactly where credentials go.

curl -X GET "http://api.open511.gov.bc.ca/areas" \
  -H "Accept: application/json"

const response = await fetch("http://api.open511.gov.bc.ca/areas", {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
    "Accept": "application/json",
  },
});
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

import requests

response = requests.request(
    "GET",
    "http://api.open511.gov.bc.ca/areas",
    headers={
    "Accept": "application/json",
    },
    timeout=30,
)
print(response.json())

Endpoints

Questions