Decode the supplied VIN to its most basic vehicle specs (i.e. make, model, year, style, trim, engine and transmission details.)
Please note that this resource is not a VIN Lookup. Manufacturers can do the VIN lookup on their own vehicles, but since we cover all manufacturers and makes and models, we can reliably look up a vehicle by just its VIN. So what we do is reduce the VIN to a Squish VIN, or VIN prefix, which is basically the first 11 digits of the VIN minus the 9th digit which is a check digit.
https://api.edmunds.com/v1/api/toolsrepository/vindecoder?vin={car VIN}&fmt=json&api_key={api key}
You need the Javascript SDK to run this example.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset=utf-8>
<title>Edmunds API Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="results-body"></div>
<script>
window.sdkAsyncInit = function() {
// Instantiate the SDK
var res = new EDMUNDSAPI('YOUR API KEY');
// Optional parameters
var options = {
"vin": "1N4AL3AP4DC295509"
};
// Callback function to be called when the API response is returned
function success(res) {
var body = document.getElementById('results-body');
body.innerHTML = "The car make is: " + res.styleHolder[0].makeName;
}
// Oops, Houston we have a problem!
function fail(data) {
console.log(data);
}
// Fire the API call
res.api('/v1/api/toolsrepository/vindecoder', options, success, fail);
// Additional initialization code such as adding Event Listeners goes here
};
// Load the SDK asynchronously
(function(d, s, id){
var js, sdkjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}
js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;
js.src = "path/to/sdk/file";
sdkjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, sdkjs);
}(document, 'script', 'edmunds-jssdk'));
</script>
</body>
</html>