CarAPI.io - Danish, Norwegian, Swedish & Dutch Vehicle API

Vehicle Data API for Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the Netherlands. Access comprehensive vehicle information with simple token-based pricing.

Try it now: no signup, no human needed

Working for someone who already has a CarAPI.io account? Use that account's key (https://carapi.io/api-keys) and go straight to step 2: every POST /v1/signup creates a new, separate account.

  1. Get a working API key with 10 free tokens (10 basic lookups):

    curl -X POST https://api.carapi.io/v1/signup

    It is an ordinary key on an ordinary account, not a sandbox: the same endpoints, the same responses and the same prices as a full integration, so what you test is what you build on.

  2. Look up a real vehicle. These plates exist:

    curl https://api.carapi.io/v1/se/reg/YYO555 -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"

    Sweden YYO555, Denmark AP15244, Norway DN88050, the Netherlands 79NFN3.

  3. To keep the key and get the free plan's 100 tokens a month, the account needs your user's e-mail address:

    curl -X POST https://api.carapi.io/v1/signup/email -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"email":"[email protected]"}'

    We send that address a link. Its owner confirms it and chooses a password, and the same key keeps working. Opening that e-mail is all your user has to do: signing up or logging in at carapi.io with the same address only sends the link again. A key whose address is never confirmed stops working 30 days after it was created. A person can also sign up at https://carapi.io/signup and create keys there.

    Once the 10 tokens are spent, lookups answer 403 EMAIL_NOT_VERIFIED until the address is confirmed; the message says what to do next.

Without any key, GET https://api.carapi.io/v1/se/reg/CARAPI-DEMO answers with sample data in the exact shape of a real response (also for dk, no and nl). It costs nothing and never calls the registry. If you can only make GET requests, that is what you can test on your own; for a real lookup, your user can run the curl -X POST above, or sign up.

Limits on new keys: 3 per IP address per day and 10 per month. Free lookups by accounts without a confirmed address share a daily ceiling; past it the API answers 503 FREE_LIMIT_REACHED until 00:00 UTC.

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