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NHTSA vPIC Vehicle Decoder Scraper

Decode VINs with NHTSA vPIC: make, model, year, manufacturer, plant, body class, engine, fuel, transmission, drive type, GVWR, doors, seats, airbags, recalls, and 100+ technical attributes. Export vehicle specifications to JSON, CSV, or Excel for automotive research and fleet ops.

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🚗 NHTSA vPIC Vehicle Decoder Scraper

🚀 Decode any US VIN and browse the NHTSA make / model catalog in seconds. Pull full vehicle specs from a 17-character VIN, list every make in the vPIC database, or enumerate models and vehicle types per make. No API key, no per-request fees, no manual CSV parsing.

The NHTSA vPIC Vehicle Decoder Scraper wraps the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Vehicle Product Information Catalog (vPIC), the authoritative US source for VIN decoding and make / model reference data. Each decoded VIN returns make, model, model year, manufacturer, body class, trim, series, engine model, horsepower, cylinder count, displacement, fuel type, transmission style, drive type, plant location, door count, and dozens of additional specification fields.

The catalog covers every make and model sold in the United States including foreign manufacturers (Honda, Toyota, BMW, Mercedes), domestic legacy nameplates (Ford, GM, Chrysler), and modern EV makers (Tesla, Rivian, Lucid). Use this Actor to validate insurance applications, populate a dealer-inventory database, enrich telematics streams, or build a vehicle-specs API of your own. Output exports as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

🛑 NHTSA Recalls is a separate scraper. This Actor returns vehicle specifications only. For safety recall lookups, use the dedicated NHTSA Vehicle Recalls scraper.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Auto insurers, dealer management systems, fleet operators, telematics platforms, automotive marketplaces, used-car dealers, vehicle-history reporters	VIN decode and validation, dealer inventory enrichment, insurance underwriting, fleet specification tracking, telematics device pairing, vehicle-classification analytics

📋 What the NHTSA vPIC Decoder does

Four catalog modes in a single Actor:

🔢 Decode VIN (decodeVin). Full specification decode from a 17-character VIN, optionally hinted by model year.
🏭 All Makes (makes). Enumerate every make in the vPIC catalog with make ID and name.
🚙 Models for Make (modelsForMake). List every model for a given make name.
🚐 Vehicle Types for Make (vehicleTypesForMake). List the vehicle-type classifications the make produces.

Each decoded VIN includes the canonical make, model, year, manufacturer name and ID, body class, trim, series, engine model, horsepower, cylinder count, fuel type, transmission style, drive type, plant city / state / country, door count, displacement, and the vPIC decode result codes.

💡 Why it matters: vPIC is the only free, comprehensive VIN decoder for the US market. Commercial alternatives charge per VIN lookup. Building your own integration means handling the underlying vPIC service contracts, partial-VIN edge cases, and per-mode response shapes by hand. This Actor skips all of that.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: bodyClass, displacementL, doors, driveType, engineCylinders, engineHP, engineModel, errorCode, errorText, fuelType, make, makeId, makeName, manufacturer, manufacturerId, mode, model, modelId, modelName, modelYear, plantCity, plantCompanyName, plantCountry, plantState, scrapedAt, series, transmissionStyle, trim, vehicleType, vehicleTypeId, vehicleTypeName, vin. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the NHTSA vPIC Vehicle Decoder Scraper page on the Apify Store.
🎯 Set input. Pick a mode (decodeVin / makes / modelsForMake / vehicleTypesForMake), list inputs.
🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
📥 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.

🔗 Recommended Actors

🛑 NHTSA Vehicle Recalls Scraper - Active US safety recalls by VIN, make, or model
🚗 Kelley Blue Book Scraper - US vehicle valuation data
🚙 Cars For Sale Scraper - US used-car listings
🚜 CommercialTruckTrader Scraper - US commercial truck listings
📈 AutoTrader Scraper - US auto-market listings

💡 Pro Tip: browse the complete ParseForge collection for more automotive-data scrapers.

⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration or the US Department of Transportation. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available NHTSA vPIC data is collected.

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