/nhtsa/complaints/search

POST /api/nhtsa/complaints/search

Price: 20 credits

Search NHTSA vehicle owner complaints for a make, model and model year: narrative, failed components, crash, fire, injuries and deaths.

How to use it

Use it to see what owners report going wrong with a specific vehicle, for example counting fires or crashes per component. Make and model are matched as NHTSA spells them, so an unknown spelling returns no results rather than an error.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• make string required — Vehicle make (examples: "honda"; minLength: 1)
• model string required — Vehicle model (examples: "accord"; minLength: 1)
• model_year integer required — Model year (examples: 2015; min: 1900; max: 2100)
• count integer required — Max number of results (min: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "NhtsaComplaint")
• id string required
• manufacturer string nullable
• text string nullable
• components array (default: [])
• is_crash boolean nullable
• is_fire boolean nullable
• injury_count integer nullable
• death_count integer nullable
• incident_date string nullable
• filed_date string nullable
• vin string nullable
• products array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "NhtsaComplaintProduct")
  • product_type string nullable
  • year integer nullable
  • make string nullable
  • model string nullable
  • manufacturer string nullable
  • size string nullable

Errors

• 422 — The request body did not validate Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.
• 412 — The entity was not found, or a precondition failed Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.
• 429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.
• 500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.
• 529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response headers

• X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)
• X-Request-ID — Unique request identifier
• X-Execution-Time — Execution time in seconds
• X-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
• X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
• X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
• X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.