US Vehicle Recall Tracker

Run a live lookup of official U.S. vehicle safety recall records from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Search by make + model + model year, by NHTSA campaign number, or use both query types in one run. Results are structured for downstream datasets and automation.

Input

Provide either:

• make, model, and modelYear together; or
• campaignNumber, such as 20V314000.

You may provide both. In that case, the Actor queries both NHTSA endpoints, combines the results, removes duplicates, then applies maxResults (default 100, range 1–500).

Example vehicle input:

{
  "make": "Honda",
  "model": "Accord",
  "modelYear": 2019,
  "maxResults": 50
}

Example campaign input:

{
  "campaignNumber": "20V314000",
  "maxResults": 100
}

Output

Each dataset row contains:

• campaignNumber
• affectedVehicle.manufacturer, make, model, modelYear
• problem (NHTSA summary)
• safetyRisk (NHTSA consequence)
• recommendedRemedy (NHTSA remedy)
• reportDate (NHTSA report received date)
• retrievedAt (UTC time this Actor fetched the response)
• officialSourceUrl (NHTSA recall lookup for the campaign)

The Actor does not invent missing recall details. A successful lookup with no matches returns an empty dataset. Network errors, timeouts, non-success HTTP responses, or invalid NHTSA responses fail the run clearly; no older data is substituted.

Data scope and limitations

The source is NHTSA's official Recalls API:

• Vehicle search: https://api.nhtsa.gov/recalls/recallsByVehicle
• Campaign search: https://api.nhtsa.gov/recalls/campaignNumber

Year/make/model results show campaigns associated with that model combination. They do not determine whether a particular VIN's recall repair is still open or whether a specific vehicle has been repaired. For vehicle-specific status, use NHTSA's VIN lookup. NHTSA coverage and freshness depend on the agency's source data and API availability.

Pricing

Current Apify Store pricing: $0.0001 per deduplicated recall record returned (USD $0.10 per 1,000 results), charged through the apify-default-dataset-item event. A run with no matching records has no result-item charge. The publisher currently pays Apify platform usage costs separately. In the first 6-result cloud test, Apify reported $0.000 total usage (rounded); the Console estimate is about $0.03 per 1,000 results. Actual usage can vary with run conditions.

Source and attribution

NHTSA is the authoritative source. This independent Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by NHTSA. The underlying recall records are public government information; this product charges for query execution and structured delivery, not exclusive ownership of the data.

Official source: https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls