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How to connect the QLDTraffic GeoJSON API
Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads
Queensland TMR serves current road events (hazards, crashes, congestion, flooding, roadworks, special events) as a GeoJSON FeatureCollection. Every request needs an apikey query parameter; TMR publishes a shared public key in its API specification.
The public key is globally limited to 100 requests/minute, so poll /v2/events/past-one-hour for changes rather than refetching the full collection. Register with TMR for your own key for production use. For the NSW equivalent, see Browse APIs.
Steps
- Find the base URL. Use
https://api.qldtraffic.qld.gov.au/v2/events— docs at https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/131940-traffic-and-travel-information-geojson-api. - Auth. Catalogued as Key — public shared key published in the TMR API specification: apikey=3e83add325cbb69ac4d8e5bf433d770b (globally limited to 100 requests/minute); register with TMR for your own key.
- Try an example request.
curl -s 'https://api.qldtraffic.qld.gov.au/v2/events?apikey=3e83add325cbb69ac4d8e5bf433d770b' - Licence. CC BY 4.0. Read the publisher terms before production use.
- Agent notes. GeoJSON FeatureCollection of current hazards, crashes, congestion, flooding, roadworks and special events (537 features at probe); /v2/events/past-one-hour returns only events changed in the last hour — poll that for deltas. Whole collection returned in one response, no pagination. Rate limit: shared public key is 100 requests/minute globally. Licence CC BY 4.0 (data.qld.gov.au dataset record); data provided 'as is'.
- base
- https://api.qldtraffic.qld.gov.au/v2/events
- docs
- https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/131940-traffic-and-travel-information-geojson-api
- protocol
- REST v2
- auth
- Key — public shared key published in the TMR API specification: apikey=3e83add325cbb69ac4d8e5bf433d770b (globally limited to 100 requests/minute); register with TMR for your own key
- licence
- CC BY 4.0 · commercial use OK
- try
- curl -s 'https://api.qldtraffic.qld.gov.au/v2/events?apikey=3e83add325cbb69ac4d8e5bf433d770b'
- checked
- 2026-10-15 · 200 OK · 4000 ms