Canada Vehicle Recalls – Transport Canada
Pricing
$3.00 / 1,000 results
Canada Vehicle Recalls – Transport Canada
Transport Canada vehicle recalls from official open data: make, model, model year, system, units affected, recall date. Last 60 days or full history.
What it does
Reads Transport Canada's Vehicle Recalls Database open data and returns clean, filtered recall rows (one row per recall × make/model/model year). Two official files are available:
last60days(default): the daily file of recalls from the last 60 days (~1 MB). It includes manufacturer name and last-update date.full: the monthly file with every recall since 1975 (~200 MB, streamed; nothing is stored).
One file download per run, no page scraping. Source: Vehicle Recalls Database on open.canada.ca.
Who it's for
Dealers, fleet managers, insurers, auto-parts retailers, VIN-check and car-buying apps, and journalists who track recalls by make, model or system.
Input
| Key | Notes |
|---|---|
dataset | last60days (default) or full |
make | exact make, case-insensitive, e.g. FORD |
model | contains, e.g. F-150 |
modelYearFrom / modelYearTo | e.g. 2018–2024 |
category | contains, e.g. Car, SUV, Tires, Child Car Seat |
systemType | contains, e.g. Brakes, Airbags |
recallDateFrom / recallDateTo | YYYY-MM-DD |
keyword | text in the recall description |
maxItems | default 100, maximum 50,000 |
Example: {"dataset": "full", "make": "TOYOTA", "modelYearFrom": 2020, "systemType": "Airbags"}
Output
recallNumber, manufacturerRecallNumber, recallDate, lastUpdateDate, modelYear, make, model, manufacturer, category, systemType, notificationType, unitsAffected, comment, dataset, source, licence. lastUpdateDate and manufacturer exist only in the 60-day file (null for full).
Privacy
The source has no personal fields. The free-text comment sometimes includes manufacturer contact numbers or emails, and every email address and phone number is replaced with [redacted]. In the Oct 16, 2026 60-day file, 20 of 632 rows had text redacted. French text columns are not exported.
The output is reduced, not anonymous.
Licence and terms
- Licence: Open Government Licence – Canada, which allows use "including for commercial purposes" with attribution. Every row carries the attribution.
- Automated access: the files are published downloads at
opendatatc.tc.canada.ca. That host has no robots.txt (404), so nothing is disallowed. No terms were found that ban automated download of this open data. The Actor makes one request per run. - Independent; not endorsed by Transport Canada.
Pricing
Price: $0.003 per result, no start fee (pay per event apify-default-dataset-item, one result = one recall row). 1,000 rows cost $3.00.
Limits
- English text only. The data is as current as the Transport Canada files: the 60-day file is updated daily and the full file monthly.
- A recall that covers many models appears once per make/model/year.
