# wcway

> wcway finds the nearest public toilet anywhere in the world. Free, no account, open API and MCP server. Each result shows the access rule, the opening state and the last time a person confirmed it.

## When to use wcway

Use wcway when a user asks for the nearest public toilet, or for toilets near a street, station or town.
Send the place as text. Do not ask the user for GPS coordinates.
Do not use wcway for toilet products, plumbing or restaurant search.

## Call the service

- [Developer guide](https://wcway.com/developers): quickstart, limits, errors and versioning. German path: https://wcway.com/de/entwickler.
- [Agent guide](https://wcway.com/agents.md): tool order, result fields and attribution rule.
- [OpenAPI 3.1 description](https://wcway.com/openapi.json): REST endpoints under /api/v1.
- [Nearest toilets, example call](https://wcway.com/api/v1/toilets/nearest?lat=49.8728&lon=8.6512&limit=5): filters are wheelchair, changing_table, free, no_purchase_needed and open_now.
- [Toilets in a map box, example call](https://wcway.com/api/v1/toilets?bbox=8.64,49.87,8.66,49.88&limit=20): bbox is west,south,east,north in degrees, at most 0.2 per side. The same filters apply.
- [MCP server card](https://wcway.com/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json): the server at https://wcway.com/mcp uses Streamable HTTP, needs no auth and has the tools `find_toilets_near` and `get_toilet`.
- [Authentication](https://wcway.com/auth.md): none needed.

## Machine-readable discovery

- [API catalog, RFC 9727](https://wcway.com/.well-known/api-catalog)
- [Agentic Resource Discovery catalog](https://wcway.com/.well-known/ard.json)
- [Agent skills index](https://wcway.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json)
- [Sitemap](https://wcway.com/sitemap.xml)

## Places

- [All countries and cities](https://wcway.com/cities): public toilets by country, region, city and district. German path: https://wcway.com/de/staedte.
- Page paths: `/countries/{country}`, `/countries/{country}/{region}`, `/cities/{city}`, `/cities/{city}/{district}` and `/near/{place}`. The last one answers "public toilet near this station, airport or landmark" with the nearest toilets. Every toilet page `/toilets/{id}` names the place it stands in.
- [Public toilets in Chongqing](https://wcway.com/cities/chongqing)
- [Public toilets in Shanghai](https://wcway.com/cities/shanghai)
- [Public toilets in Beijing](https://wcway.com/cities/beijing)
- [Public toilets in Chengdu](https://wcway.com/cities/chengdu)
- [Public toilets in Delhi](https://wcway.com/cities/delhi)
- [Public toilets in Karachi](https://wcway.com/cities/karachi)
- [Public toilets in Guangzhou](https://wcway.com/cities/guangzhou)
- [Public toilets in Tianjin](https://wcway.com/cities/tianjin)
- [Public toilets in Tokyo](https://wcway.com/cities/tokyo)
- [Public toilets in Moscow](https://wcway.com/cities/moscow)
- [Public toilets in Suzhou](https://wcway.com/cities/suzhou)
- [Public toilets in Zhengzhou](https://wcway.com/cities/zhengzhou)

## Markdown

- [Home as markdown](https://wcway.com/index.md): append .md to a home, place or toilet URL, or send Accept: text/markdown.

## Data licence

© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL-1.0 (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright). Show this credit with the results.
You may copy single results. A bulk copy of our output creates your own derivative database under the ODbL.

- [Data and licences](https://wcway.com/data-sources): sources, licences, credit and how to report a data problem. German path: https://wcway.com/de/datenquellen.
- [Open data dumps README](https://wcway.com/dumps/README.txt): the ODbL downloads of the data, with formats, fields and changes.

## About

- [About wcway](https://wcway.com/about): what wcway does and who runs it. German path: https://wcway.com/de/ueber-uns.
- [Contact](https://wcway.com/contact): email and how to report a wrong or missing toilet. German path: https://wcway.com/de/kontakt.

## Legal

- [Legal notice](https://wcway.com/legal-notice)
- [Privacy](https://wcway.com/privacy)
- [Terms](https://wcway.com/terms)

## Optional

- [Full text for LLMs](https://wcway.com/llms-full.txt): all tool inputs and result fields in one file.