Documentation
One integration, every Australian emergency source
Australia has no national emergency feed. We poll 34 official and community sources across every state and territory, reconcile their formats, timestamps and coordinate systems, and return them in one schema. These docs cover how to call it.
Your first request
Every endpoint lives under https://emergencyapi.com/api/v1 and takes a bearer token. The free tier covers 5,000 requests a month and never asks for a card.
curl "https://emergencyapi.com/api/v1/incidents?state=nsw&limit=5" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"
Responses are GeoJSON by default, so they drop straight into Leaflet, Mapbox or MapLibre without transformation. CSV and CAP-AU are available on the endpoints that support them. The quickstart walks the whole thing end to end in about a minute.
Start here
Four things account for almost every integration question. Read them once and the rest of the reference is self-explanatory.
- AuthenticationCreating keys, sending them, and restricting a key to your own origins.
- Rate limitsWhat each tier allows, what a 429 looks like, and how to back off correctly.
- PaginationCursors, page sizes, and why offsets are the wrong tool for a live feed.
- ErrorsOne machine-readable error shape across every endpoint.
Endpoint reference
Generated from the OpenAPI spec, so it cannot drift from what the API actually does.
- Incidents5 endpointsLive and historical emergency incidents from every state and territory, in one GeoJSON schema.
- Events2 endpointsNearby incidents clustered into a single event with a boundary polygon and affected suburbs.
- Disaster declarations4 endpointsWhich local government areas sit inside a declared disaster area, by postcode, point or AGRN.
- River gauges4 endpointsWater level readings and BoM flood classifications from state water monitoring networks.
- States1 endpointPer-jurisdiction coverage: which agencies we carry and how fresh each one is.
- Status and metadata3 endpointsService health, the enum vocabulary, and the attribution every source requires.
Machine readable
The OpenAPI spec drives this reference, the interactive playground and the Markdown edition for agents and LLMs. Version 1.39.0.