A client for the United States National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Vehicle Product Information Catalog (vPIC) API
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vpic-api
Python client library for decoding VINs and querying the United States National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Vehicle Product Information Catalog Vehicle Listing (vPIC) API.
Use this to gather information on vehicles and their specifications, and to decode VINs to extract information for specific vehicles. vPIC has information about these types of vehicles sold or imported in the USA:
- Bus
- Incomplete Vehicle
- Low Speed Vehicle (LSV)
- Motorcycle
- Multipurpose Passenger Vehicle (MPV)
- Passenger Car
- Trailer
- Truck
vPIC has information about how manufacturers assign a VIN that encodes a vehicle's characteristics. Vehicle manufacturers provide this information to NHTSA under U.S. law 49 CFR Part 565.
The API available 24/7, is free to use, and does not require registration. NHTSA uses automatic traffic rate controls to maintain the performance of the API and their websites that use the API.
See https://vpic.nhtsa.dot.gov/api/home/index/faq for more on the API.
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