Data Sources

GEThttps://api-vehicle-recalls.dataandapis.com/v1/sources

Data Sources is an endpoint of the Vehicle Recalls API. Every NHTSA recall since 1967 and 2.24 million owner complaints by make, model and year.

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Request

This endpoint takes no parameters.

Example request

curl

curl "https://api-vehicle-recalls.dataandapis.com/v1/sources" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Node.js

const res = await fetch("https://api-vehicle-recalls.dataandapis.com/v1/sources", {
  headers: { "X-Api-Key": process.env.DATAANDAPIS_KEY },
});
const data = await res.json();

Python

import os, requests

r = requests.get(
    "https://api-vehicle-recalls.dataandapis.com/v1/sources",
    headers={"X-Api-Key": os.environ["DATAANDAPIS_KEY"]},
)
data = r.json()

Example response

{
  "ok": true,
  "count": 2,
  "sources": [
    {
      "slug": "nhtsa-complaints",
      "name": "NHTSA ODI Complaints flat file",
      "publisher": "US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration",
      "licence": "US Government work - public domain",
      "source_url": "https://www.nhtsa.gov/nhtsa-datasets-and-apis",
      "file_url": "https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/ffdd/cmpl/FLAT_CMPL.zip",
      "cadence": "daily file; monthly re-seed here",
      "record_count": 2241804,
      "retrieved_at": "2026-09-02"
    },
    {
      "slug": "nhtsa-recalls",
      "name": "NHTSA Recalls Data (DOT datahub)",
      "publisher": "US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration",
      "licence": "US Government work - public domain",
      "source_url": "https://datahub.transportation.gov/d/6axg-epim",
      "file_url": "https://datahub.transportation.gov/resource/6axg-epim.json",
      "cadence": "daily",
      "record_count": 30271,
      "retrieved_at": "2026-09-02"
    }
  ]
}

Other endpoints in the Vehicle Recalls API

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