check_autobahn_traffic
Read-onlyIdempotent
Jams, slow traffic, closures and roadworks in force this minute on up to 5 motorways, with delay/speed. Use when asked about a named motorway now: Stau, a delay, how it looks, or a LIST of closures now; name every motorway (Munich→Berlin: A9). Do NOT use for yes/no: is a road open/closed/passable — check_road_status, even now — nor a closure with no time word or a later one (tonight, weekend); Baustellen dated or geplant — find_roadworks_ahead; Stau in a town, no motorway — check_road_status; fuel (find_cheapest_fuel), trains (get_train_departures). ~5 min old. Show the attribution line.
Input Schema
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| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| kinds | No | Which event kinds to return: warning = live traffic (jams, slow traffic, hazards), closure = full closures, roadworks = construction sites. Set it when the SUBJECT of the question is one of those categories by name: "Baustellen auf der A8?" is ["roadworks"], "welche Sperrungen sind in diesem Moment gemeldet?" is ["closure"]. Omit it when the question is how the road IS — Stau, frei, a delay, "wie sieht es aus", "everything"; the German "Stau?" is the idiom for the whole picture, and a filter nobody asked for hides the closure on the same stretch. Whether a closure question is this tool's at all is decided by two things, and the noun (Sperrung, Vollsperrung, closure) is neither. FIRST THE CLOCK: only a question about this minute (jetzt, gerade, in diesem Moment, right now, at this very minute) can be this tool's — with no time word at all, or for a later window (tonight, heute Abend, am Wochenende, the coming days), it is check_road_status. SECOND, WHAT IS ASKED, which the clock cannot see: what is REPORTED or in force on a named motorway is this tool ("which closures are in force on the A100 at this very minute?"), while whether the road is OPEN or passable is check_road_status AT ANY CLOCK — "ist die A8 offen", "ist die A3 in diesem Moment gesperrt?", "komme ich da durch?" — and so is a closure asked around a town instead of on a motorway number. Baustellen with a date or the word geplant are find_roadworks_ahead. Default: all three. | |
| limit | No | Maximum events to return across all roads (1–50, default 10). Jams come first, then closures, other reports, then roadworks; within each the roads take turns in the order you listed them, so every road gets its share of the page. Only what is in force now is listed — closures announced for later are counted apart in the headline. | |
| roads | Yes | Autobahn numbers, e.g. ["A9"] or ["A8", "A99", "A9"] (1–5 per call). Name every motorway on the route so the whole drive is briefed in one call — "A9", "A 9" and "a9" are the same road. Results are grouped per road, in the order you list them. | |
| cursor | No | Pagination cursor from a previous result's _meta.nextCursor. Omit for the first page. | |
| language | No | Set this on every call to the language the person is writing in: "en" if they wrote English, "de" if they wrote German. Do not leave it out: it defaults to German ("de"), which is only the fallback when the language is genuinely unclear, so an English question sent without it is answered in German — a wrong answer. Place names, station names and road numbers are never translated in either language; in English the German term is kept in parentheses so the person recognises it on signs and in local apps. | de |