NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Scraper
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NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Scraper
Unlock public records from Nhtsa Vehicle Complaints with identifiers, dates, parties, descriptions, status flags and direct links to source filings. Designed for compliance, government affairs, due diligence and policy research. Run on demand or on a recurring schedule and feed every row into you.
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🚗 NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Scraper
🚀 Pull every consumer vehicle complaint filed with NHTSA in seconds. Make, model, year, components, crash/fire/injury flags, dates, VIN, and full narratives, straight from the official US safety database.
NHTSA collects every consumer complaint filed about a US-registered vehicle and exposes it through a public tabular API. This scraper turns that API into a one-click data pull so you can analyse defect trends, monitor competitor recalls or feed an automotive intelligence pipeline.
Each record covers one ODI complaint, including the manufacturer's name, the component flagged, the incident date, whether it involved a crash, fire, injury or death, the full narrative the consumer submitted, and the affected products list. Pull by make, model and year - the actor handles the rest.
| 🎯 Target Audience | 💡 Primary Use Cases |
|---|---|
| Automotive analysts | Track defect trends by component and model |
| Legal and insurance teams | Source complaint evidence for class-action research |
| OEM safety teams | Monitor competitor complaints for benchmarking |
| Consumer journalists | Investigate emerging vehicle safety issues |
| Data scientists | Train classifiers on complaint narratives |
📋 What the NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Scraper does
- Hits the official
api.nhtsa.gov/complaints/complaintsByVehicleendpoint - Returns every complaint for a given
make,model,modelYear - Streams structured records: component, narrative, crash/fire/injury flags, dates, VIN
- No API key, no rate-limit headaches, no HTML parsing
- Stream-pull to tabular records
💡 Why it matters: NHTSA's consumer complaints database is the earliest signal of vehicle defects. Pulling it programmatically means you spot the trend before the recall.
📊 Data fields
Each record includes: results, scrapedAt, title, url. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.
⚠️ Good to Know: NHTSA returns the complete complaint set per (make, model, year) tuple in one response. Loop your runs over multiple years to build a longitudinal dataset.
🚀 How to use
- Create a free Apify account (includes $5 credit).
- Open the NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Scraper.
- Set
make,model,modelYear. - Click Start and open tabular / spreadsheet / tabular / tabular.
- Schedule daily, weekly or trigger from Make / Zapier.
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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with NHTSA. Only publicly available US government data is collected.
🆘 Need Help?
If you hit a bug, have questions about setup, or need a scraper we haven't built yet, open our contact form or write to parseforge@protonmail.com. We also take on paid custom data projects.
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