You can access the NHTSA Recalls, VIN Decoder, Ratings & Investigations programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.

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1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
5const client = new ApifyClient({
6    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
7});
8
9// Prepare Actor input
10const input = {
11    "make": "honda",
12    "model": "accord",
13    "modelYear": 2020,
14    "maxItems": 10
15};
16
17// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
18const run = await client.actor("punkrecordsdata/nhtsa-vehicle-safety-aggregator").call(input);
19
20// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
21console.log('Results from dataset');
22console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
23const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
24items.forEach((item) => {
25    console.dir(item);
26});
27
28// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

NHTSA Recalls, VIN Decoder, Ratings & Investigations API in JavaScript

The Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use NHTSA Recalls, VIN Decoder, Ratings & Investigations API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$npm install apify-client

Other API clients include:

NHTSA Recalls, VIN Decoder, Ratings & Investigations API in Python

NHTSA Recalls, VIN Decoder, Ratings & Investigations API through CLI

NHTSA Recalls, VIN Decoder, Ratings & Investigations OpenAPI definition

NHTSA Recalls, VIN Decoder, Ratings & Investigations API

VIN Decoder API

s-r/vin-decoder

Decode any 17-character VIN into year, make, model, trim, engine, transmission, drive, plant, recalls, owner complaints, NCAP safety ratings, EPA fuel economy, and EU homologation data — from free public sources, no captcha, no API keys.

VIN Decoder: Open Safety Investigations & Recalls

aiqlabs/vin-decoder-recall-audit

Decodes VINs and checks each vehicle against NHTSA's recall campaigns and its open defect investigations - the ones that have not produced a recall yet, and which a recall search therefore reports as nothing at all. Says plainly what is model-level and what is not.

Ai-Q Labs

NHTSA Recalls Scraper - Car Recall Lookup API

scrapers_lat/nhtsa-recalls-scraper

Scrape official US vehicle safety recalls and complaints from NHTSA by make, model, year, VIN or campaign number. No API key. Get recall campaign numbers, components, defect summaries, remedies, units affected, do-not-drive advisories, plus NCAP safety ratings.

Scrapers Lat

VIN Decoder API

prodiger/vin-decoder

Decode VINs against the free NHTSA databases. Structured output (identification, engine, body, safety, ADAS, EV, manufacturing), optional active recalls and NCAP safety ratings, VIN structural breakdown with check-digit validation. Pay-per-event tiered pricing.

Arnas

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Product & Vehicle Recalls API — CPSC, NHTSA, FDA, USDA

insight.solutions/product-recalls-api

Every US recall a federal agency publishes, in one schema: consumer products (CPSC), vehicles (NHTSA), drugs, devices and food (FDA), and meat, poultry and egg (USDA FSIS) — plus a VIN decoder that joins each VIN to its model's recalls, complaints and NCAP crash-test ratings. Keyless .gov sources.

Insight Solutions

NHTSA Vehicle Safety Scraper — Recalls, Complaints & VIN

logiover/nhtsa-vehicle-safety-scraper

Scrape NHTSA vehicle recalls, owner complaints, 5-star safety ratings and VIN decode data by make, model and year. Keyless official US government data. No API key, no login.

Logiover

NHTSA Safety Ratings Scraper - Vehicle Scores

benthepythondev/nhtsa-safety-ratings-scraper

Look up vehicle variants and export NHTSA overall, front, side and rollover ratings plus safety technology, complaint, recall and investigation counts.

Ben

NHTSA Vehicle Intelligence MCP — AI Agent

red.cars/nhtsa-vehicle-intelligence-mcp

AI agent access to NHTSA vehicle specs, recall data, safety ratings, and complaint databases. Get detailed vehicle specifications, open recalls, US safety ratings, and consumer complaints for any US vehicle.

AutomateLab

Vehicle Safety & Reliability Intelligence (NHTSA)

sashaebashu/nhtsa-vehicle-intel

Recalls, owner complaints and crash-test ratings for any vehicle or VIN — with severity scoring, complaint trends and alerts when a new recall or do-not-drive order appears.

Sasha Ebashu

Vehicle Safety Intelligence

skootle/nhtsa-vehicle-safety-intelligence

Official NHTSA recalls, complaints, and safety ratings for fleets, dealers, insurers, vehicle history, APIs, schedules, and monitoring.

Skootle

NHTSA VIN Decoder, Recalls and Crash Ratings

sourabhbgp/nhtsa-vehicle-intelligence

Decode any VIN into 136 vehicle specification fields, then get NHTSA safety recalls with do not drive flags, consumer complaints, and NCAP crash test ratings with photos and videos. Or look up any vehicle by make, model and year. $2 per 1,000 vehicles, no per-run fee.