🚗 NHTSA Vehicle Recalls & Complaints Scraper

🚀 Scrape vehicle recall and complaint data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Search by make, model, and year. Get recall campaigns, hazard descriptions, remedies, and consumer complaints including crash, fire, injury, and death reports.

Whether you're a consumer checking a vehicle's safety history, an automotive researcher tracking recall trends, or a fleet manager monitoring safety issues, this tool makes it easy to collect structured data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

The NHTSA Scraper collects vehicle recalls and safety complaints with campaign numbers, components, summaries, remedies, crash data, injury counts, and more. Filter by make, model, and year for targeted results.

Target Audience	Car buyers, fleet managers, automotive researchers, legal professionals, repair shops
Primary Use Cases	Vehicle safety checks, recall monitoring, automotive research, fleet compliance

📋 What Does It Do

This tool collects vehicle recall and complaint data from NHTSA, supporting search by make, model, and year. It delivers:

• 🔔 Recall data - campaign numbers, affected components, summaries, consequences, and remedies
• 🚨 Complaint data - ODI numbers, crash/fire flags, injury and death counts, incident details
• 🚗 Vehicle filtering - search by make, model, and model year for targeted results
• 📋 Multi-model search - leave model empty to automatically search all models for a given make
• 📊 Structured output - clean JSON, CSV, or Excel data ready for analysis

🎬 How to Use the NHTSA Scraper - Full Demo

🚧 Demo video coming soon

🚀 How to Use

1. Sign Up - Create a free account w/ $5 credit (takes 2 minutes)
2. Find the Scraper - Search for "NHTSA Vehicle Recalls Scraper" in the Apify Store
3. Set Input - Set the mode (recalls or complaints), vehicle make, model, and year
4. Run It - Click "Start" and let it collect your data
5. Download Data - Get your results in the "Dataset" tab as CSV, Excel, or JSON

Total Time: Single queries return in under 1 second. Broader searches take a few seconds. No Technical Skills Required: Everything is point-and-click

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: Component, Consequence, Make, Manufacturer, Model, ModelYear, NHTSACampaignNumber, Remedy, ReportReceivedDate, Summary, overTheAirUpdate, parkIt. All 12 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the NHTSA Vehicle Recalls & Complaints Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Configure the input fields in the form (or paste a JSON), then set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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