canonical: https://jentic.com/apis/surrey.ca/city-of-surrey-open511-api

# Surrey Ca City of Surrey Open511 API

This API provides real time traffic obstruction events occuring within the City of Surrey. The API exposes 4 endpoints.

## For AI agents

Programmatically access City of Surrey Open511 API resources. Covers 4 operations.

## Scope

Does not handle payments, communications, or crm - use for developer tools only.

## Capabilities

- Access City of Surrey Open511 API resources via REST API
- Manage developer tools data programmatically
- Integrate City of Surrey Open511 API into automated workflows
- Query and filter City of Surrey Open511 API records by parameters
- Monitor City of Surrey Open511 API operational status and events

## Use cases

### Developer Tools Operations

The API provides 4 endpoints for developer tools operations.

Example prompt: Execute a primary operation against the City of Surrey Open511 API

### Data Retrieval and Monitoring

Query City of Surrey Open511 API resources on a schedule to track changes, generate alerts, or feed downstream dashboards. Agents poll relevant endpoints, compare against previous state, and trigger actions when thresholds are crossed.

Example prompt: Poll the primary City of Surrey Open511 API endpoint, compare response to last known state, and alert if changed

### AI Agent Integration via Jentic

AI agents discover and call City of Surrey Open511 API endpoints through Jentic without managing credentials directly. An agent searches for the required operation by intent, receives the matching endpoint schema, and executes the call with Jentic-managed authentication. This eliminates the need to read API documentation or handle none tokens manually.

Example prompt: Search Jentic for 'city of surrey open511 API', load the operation schema, and execute with Jentic-managed credentials

## Key resources

- **traffic** — Operations related to traffic
- **obstructions** — Operations related to obstructions
- **realtime** — Operations related to realtime
- **transportation** — Operations related to transportation

## Why Jentic

- **Setup:** Wiring the City of Surrey Open511 API by hand means pointing at its data.surrey.ca host, parsing the Open511 response shape, and managing retries yourself. Through Jentic you install once, import the City of Surrey Open511 API from the API Directory, and your agent calls it, with no key to obtain since the endpoints are open.
- **Permission scoping:** The City of Surrey Open511 API serves open road-event data with no authentication, so scope the agent to the read operations it needs, such as fetching current road events. There are no write operations to allow, so the agent can only ever read the published data.
- **Credential handling:** The City of Surrey Open511 API requires no credential, so there is nothing to store: your Jentic One instance simply calls the open endpoints at execution time. No secret ever enters the agent's prompt, logs, or context.
- **Discovery method:** Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'get current road events in Surrey', and Jentic returns the matching City of Surrey Open511 API operation with its input schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing the reference docs.

## Related APIs

- **Github** — Alternative developer tools API
- **Gitlab** — Alternative developer tools API

## FAQ

### What authentication does the City of Surrey Open511 API use?

The City of Surrey Open511 API uses no authentication. Through Jentic, these credentials are stored encrypted in your Jentic One instance and injected at execution time, so raw secrets never enter the agent context.

### What are the rate limits for the City of Surrey Open511 API?

Rate limits are not specified in the OpenAPI spec. Check the vendor documentation for current limits. Through Jentic, rate limiting is handled automatically with retry logic built into the execution layer.

### How do I use city of surrey open511 API through Jentic?

Install the Jentic SDK with pip install jentic, authenticate through Jentic One, the self-hosted execution layer, then search for 'use city of surrey open511 API'. Jentic returns the matching City of Surrey Open511 API operation with its input schema. Load the schema and execute the call - credentials are injected automatically.

### How many endpoints does the City of Surrey Open511 API have?

The City of Surrey Open511 API exposes 4 endpoints covering traffic, obstructions, realtime operations.

### Does the City of Surrey Open511 API support pagination?

Pagination support depends on the specific endpoint. Check the endpoint parameters for page, limit, or offset fields. Through Jentic, the operation schema exposes all available parameters so agents can paginate automatically.

### Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the City of Surrey Open511 API?

Yes. Because you run Jentic One yourself, your own rules decide which City of Surrey Open511 API operations the agent may call, so you can restrict it to just the read operations it needs, such as fetching current traffic obstructions and road events. This API serves open, unauthenticated road-event data and exposes no write operations, so an agent scoped this way can only ever read the published data and never modify anything. You control this scoping at the operator level rather than trusting the agent to stay within bounds.