NHTSA US Vehicle Recalls Lookup API

Look up US vehicle recalls from NHTSA — make, model, year, campaign and remedy.

Public product-safety records — for monitoring, not a safety determination.

📊 Sample Output

make	manufacturer	campaign_number	report_received_date	component	scraped_at
Toyota	Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing	23V865000	20/12/2023	AIR BAGS:SENSOR:OCCUPANT CLASSIFICATION	2026-09-25T00:00:30.640354+00:00

Real rows from run 59bZEouSTy0wGG3FT on build 0.0.31 (2026-09-25), unedited apart from masked emails/phones and shortened long text; fields the source does not publish are empty.

⚙️ Sample inputs

This is the Store example input — the same input Apify's automated check runs — so it is proven to return rows on the current build. Paste it into the input form, or send it through the API, CLI or a schedule:

{
  "vehicles": [
    {
      "make": "Toyota",
      "model": "Camry",
      "year": 2022
    }
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}

🔧 Input reference

Field	Type	Default	What it does
vehicles	array of object	[{"make": "Toyota", "model": "Camry", "year": 2022}]	List of {make, model, year} objects to query NHTSA recalls for.
make	string		Alternative to vehicles list — query a single vehicle by make.
model	string		Alternative to vehicles list — model name (combined with make + year).
year	integer		Alternative to vehicles list — model year (combined with make + model).
proxyConfiguration	object	{"useApifyProxy": false}	Apify proxy (optional).

🧾 JSON sample record

One real record from run 59bZEouSTy0wGG3FT (emails/phones masked, long text shortened):

{
  "make": "Toyota",
  "model": "Camry",
  "year": 2022,
  "manufacturer": "Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing",
  "campaign_number": "23V865000",
  "park_it": false,
  "park_outside": false,
  "over_the_air_update": false,
  "report_received_date": "20/12/2023",
  "component": "AIR BAGS:SENSOR:OCCUPANT CLASSIFICATION",
  "summary": "Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing (Toyota) is recalling certain 2020-2021 Avalon, Avalon Hybrid, Corolla, Highlander, Highlander Hybrid, RAV4, RAV4 Hybrid, Lexus ES350, Lexus RX350, Lexus RX450H, 2021 Sienna Hybrid, Lexus ES250, 2020-2022 Camry, Camry Hybrid, and ES300H vehicles.  A short circuit may develop in the Occupant Classification System (OCS) sensor, preventing the front passenger air bag from deploying.",
  "consequence": "An air bag that does not deploy during a crash increases the risk of injury.",
  "remedy": "Dealers will inspect and replace the sensor as necessary, free of charge.  Interim letters notifying owners of the safety risk were mailed in February 2024. Some final remedy owner letters were mailed October 31, 2024. Letters will continue to be mailed in phases through January 2026. Owners may contact Toyota customer service at 1-800-331-4331.  Toyota's number for this recall is 23TB15/23TA15 Lexus 23LB03/23LA03.",
  "notes": "Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.nhtsa.gov.",
  "potential_units_affected": null,
  "scraped_at": "2026-09-25T00:00:30.640354+00:00"
}

💰 Pricing

Event	Price (USD)	When it is charged
Actor Start (apify-actor-start)	$0.005	Charged when the Actor starts running. Number of events charged depends on Actor memory (one event per GB, minimum one event).
Recall (apify-default-dataset-item)	$0.02	Single NHTSA recall record (campaign #, component, summary, remedy).

Pay-per-event: you pay only for what the run delivers. A run that delivers nothing bills no result events (only the actor-start event, when the actor defines one). Example: a run that delivers 100 results costs 100 × $0.02 = $2.00 plus the start fee.

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⏰ Run this as a monitoring subscription (recommended)

Regulatory data is monitoring data. Schedule a weekly sweep (0 8 * * 1) and catch new recalls as they post — an always-on official-records feed.

📊 What you get

Clean JSON, one record per recall (full output has 16 fields):

• make — Make
• model — Model
• year — Year
• manufacturer — Manufacturer
• campaign_number — Campaign number
• park_it — Park it
• park_outside — Park outside
• over_the_air_update — Over the air update
• report_received_date — Report received date
• component — Component

Pricing: $0.020 per recall (Pay-Per-Event) — about 50 recalls per $1.

🤖 Use with AI agents

Point Claude, the OpenAI Agents SDK, an n8n flow or any MCP-aware client at it and pull official records on demand.

Agentic payments (x402): Supports agentic payment via x402 — agents can call this actor with USDC, no API key required.

🔗 Related regulatory actors

Product-safety monitoring — recalls across agencies:

NHTSA Defects · NHTSA Safety · CPSC Recalls

Agent front door — Healthcare & FDA MCP: Healthcare & FDA MCP

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Public official records and enforcement data, assembled for research and monitoring.