I'm developing a website for a small used car dealership with a need for VIN decoding. Given as much, I'm looking for maybe 1,000 - 1,500 requests for VINs per year. Does anyone have experience with a price-efficient web service to deliver such data?
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VIN databases tend to be specific to continent/region. You might want to specify which one you are interested in. – Piotr Dobrogost Sep 03 '11 at 21:19
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Vehicle Identification Number. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_Identification_Number – Jason Sep 03 '11 at 23:03
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1I would suggest http://vinquery.com/. This has lite, basic, standard and extended reports for your need. – Easwaramoorthy Kanagaraj Nov 19 '12 at 12:29
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3Why is this closed as not constructive? Actually, really helps me to find 2 web services I never heard about. – Adrian P. Feb 14 '17 at 20:37
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A couple other options are available as well.
- http://www.vinlink.com/
- http://www.vinquery.com/
- Detailed API with a number of different options.
- http://vinapi.skizmo.com/
- This option is pretty inexpensive if you just need basic information.
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I am not 100% sure, but I think you can use curl with client side ajax. If so, this may work [link](http://vinapi.skizmo.com/examples#curl) – Everette Mills Dec 21 '12 at 15:34
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1And http://www.vinquery.com/ only covers the United States and Canada. – Mihaela Grigore May 17 '18 at 08:18
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try ask at Vin-info.com - there is vin decoder and I've heard, that they are preparing API
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2Edmunds has an actual legit api. http://developer.edmunds.com/api-documentation/vehicle/spec_vin_decoding/v2/ – styks Nov 03 '15 at 22:30
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http://uk.vin-info.com/ does not have any api support. I am using edmunds, it is free. – godzilla Jan 08 '16 at 00:44
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2Worth mentioning that vpic.nhtsa.dot.gov/api is only useful for the USA. – Mihaela Grigore May 17 '18 at 08:04
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DataOne Software (the company I work for) has a REST web service for decoding VINs. Our data covers model years 1981-present. For the volume you're talking about pricing would be very inexpensive, and we offer a free trial.
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Except they ask a thousand questions before you can access that api and they require a phone number. However, I did get confirmation pretty quickly. 3-5 minutes. – styks Nov 03 '15 at 22:06
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@Kelvin Thanks for the feedback on the form. We try not to ask more than we need in order to differentiate serious users from spammers, but I've passed your feedback along to our marketing team. I'm glad to hear you got confirmation quickly. Please feel free to send me a DM if you need help with anything! – Joe Kiley Nov 04 '15 at 15:05