Odometer

API

Mileage verification made easy

Check a car’s odometer reading instantly, accurately, and cost-effectively with Smartcar’s APIs.

Odometer

Retrieve the total mileage traveled by a vehicle.

Node
Python
Java
Go
Ruby
const smartcar = require('smartcar');

// Get all vehicles associated with this access token
const {vehicles} = await smartcar.getVehicles("<access-token>");

// Construct a new vehicle instance using the first vehicle's id
const vehicle = new smartcar.Vehicle(vehicles[0], "<access-token>");

// Fetch the vehicle's odometer
const odometer = await vehicle.odometer();

// Example http response from Smartcar
{
  "distance": 104.32
}

import smartcar

# Get all vehicles associated with this access token
response = smartcar.get_vehicles("<access-token>")

# Construct a new vehicle instance using the first vehicle's id
vehicle = smartcar.Vehicle(response.vehicles[0], "<access-token>")

# Fetch the vehicle's odometer
odometer = vehicle.odometer()

// Example http response from Smartcar
{
  "distance": 104.32
}

import com.smartcar.sdk.*;

// Get all vehicles associated with this access token
VehicleIds response = Smartcar.getVehicles("<access-token>");
String[] vehicleIds = response.getVehicleIds();

// Construct a new vehicle instance using the first vehicle's id
Vehicle vehicle = new Vehicle(vehicleIds[0], "<access-token>");

// Fetch the vehicle's odometer
VehicleOdometer odometer = vehicle.odometer();

// Example http response from Smartcar
{
  "distance": 104.32
}

import (
  "context"
  smartcar "github.com/smartcar/go-sdk"
);

// Create a smartcar client
var smartcarClient = smartcar.NewClient();

// Get all vehicles associated with this access token
var vehicleIDs, resErr = smartcarClient.GetVehicleIDs(
  context.TODO(),
  &smartcar.VehicleIDsParams{Access: "<access-token>"},
);

// Construct a new vehicle instance using the first vehicle's id
var vehicle = smartcarClient.NewVehicle(&smartcar.VehicleParams{
  ID: vehicleIDs.VehicleIDs[0],
  AccessToken: "<access-token>"},
);

// Fetch the vehicle's odometer
var odometer, resErr = vehicle.GetOdometer(context.TODO());

// Example http response from Smartcar
{
  "distance": 104.32
}

require 'smartcar'

# Get all vehicles associated with this access token
all_vehicles =  Smartcar.get_vehicles(token: token)

# Construct a new vehicle instance using the first vehicle's id
vehicle = Smartcar::Vehicle.new(
  token: "<access-token>",
  id: all_vehicles.vehicles.first
)

# Fetch the vehicle's odometer
odometer = vehicle.odometer()

// Example http response from Smartcar
{
  "distance": 104.32
}
See the API docs

Product features

  • Compatible with 36 car brands

    Compatible with 39 car brands

  • Friendly user consent flow

    Friendly user consent flow

  • Works on 2015 and newer vehicles

    Works on 2015 and newer vehicles

  • Trusted & secure

    Trusted & secure

  • Retrieve live data and trigger actions

    Access to real telematics data

  • SDKs for Go, Java, Node.js, Python, and Ruby

    SDKs for Go, Java, Node.js, Python, and Ruby

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