/nhtsa/makes/search

POST /api/nhtsa/makes/search

Price: 20 credits

List vehicle makes in the NHTSA vPIC catalogue: every make, the makes of a manufacturer, optionally for one model year, or the makes of a vehicle type.

How to use it

Use it to find the make spelling and make id NHTSA uses before calling nhtsa/models/search or the recall, complaint and safety-rating searches. Filter by manufacturer to see which makes a company builds, or by vehicle type to list, for example, motorcycle makes; the two filters cannot be combined.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• manufacturer string nullable — Keep makes of manufacturers whose name contains this text (examples: "honda"; minLength: 1)
• model_year integer nullable — Together with manufacturer, keep makes registered for this model year (examples: 2015; min: 1900; max: 2100)
• vehicle_type string nullable — Keep makes of vehicle types whose name contains this text (examples: "motorcycle"; minLength: 1)
• count integer required — Max number of results (min: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "NhtsaMake")
• id string required
• name string nullable
• manufacturer_id string nullable
• manufacturer_name string nullable
• vehicle_type_id string nullable
• vehicle_type_name 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.