{"attribution":{"lines":["Wait times are from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (https://bwt.cbp.gov) and are in the public domain.","ScalpStream is not affiliated with or endorsed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).","Distances, drive times and rankings are ScalpStream's own estimates, measured to crossing locations from U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics data (public domain) and Wikidata (CC0)."],"sources":[{"name":"U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Border Wait Times","licence":"Public domain (U.S. Government work)","licence_url":"https://www.usa.gov/government-copyright","url":"https://bwt.cbp.gov"},{"name":"U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Border Crossing/Entry Data","licence":"Public domain (U.S. Government work)","licence_url":"https://www.usa.gov/government-copyright","url":"https://www.bts.gov/browse-statistical-products-and-data/border-crossing-data"},{"name":"Wikidata","licence":"CC0 1.0 Universal","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","url":"https://www.wikidata.org"}],"text":"Wait times are from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (https://bwt.cbp.gov) and are in the public domain.\nScalpStream is not affiliated with or endorsed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).\nDistances, drive times and rankings are ScalpStream's own estimates, measured to crossing locations from U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics data (public domain) and Wikidata (CC0)."},"coverage":"85 US ports of entry (30 Canadian border, 55 Mexican border)","disclaimer":"Wait times are US Customs and Border Protection's own published figures and can change sharply within minutes; CBP reports nothing at all for some lanes, and those are shown as unreported rather than as zero. Drive times are straight-line estimates at an assumed average speed, not routed directions. Confirm at the crossing.","example":"https://borderscout.scalpstream.com/crossings?lat=32.7157\u0026lon=-117.1611\u0026vehicle=passenger\u0026lanes=standard,SENTRI/NEXUS","parameters":{"lanes":"comma-separated lanes you may use, e.g. standard,SENTRI/NEXUS,Ready,FAST (default: standard only)","lat":"required, decimal degrees","limit":"how many crossings to return (default 5)","lon":"required, decimal degrees","place":"optional label used in the summary text","radius":"km limit on how far to look (0 = no limit)","speed":"assumed average road speed in km/h for the drive estimate (default 70)","vehicle":"passenger (default), commercial, or pedestrian"},"payment":"x402 (HTTP 402): USDC on Base, USDC on Arbitrum, USDC on Polygon, USDC on Solana, wrapped SOL on Solana, XRP on the XRP Ledger, RLUSD on the XRP Ledger. Custody-free.","price_usd":"0.01","service":"BorderScout","source":"U.S. Customs and Border Protection border wait times (bwt.cbp.gov), public domain","what":"Machine-payable US border-crossing queries: crossings ranked by ALL-IN time — the drive there plus the wait once there — per lane type, for passenger, commercial or pedestrian traffic.","why":"The nearest crossing is frequently not the fastest. A crossing 50 km further out with a 10-minute wait beats the one next door at 125 minutes, and only an all-in number shows it."}