Vehicle attributes

API

Access essential vehicle data

Know the make, model, and year of your customer’s car.

Make, model, and year

Retrieve a vehicle’s make, model, and model year.

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 attributes
const vehicleAttributes = await vehicle.attributes();
// Example http response from Smartcar
{
  "id": "36ab27d0-fd9d-4455-823a-ce30af709ffc",
  "make": "TESLA",
  "model": "Model S",
  "year": 2014
}
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 attributes
vehicle_attributes = vehicle.attributes()
// Example http response from Smartcar
{
  "id": "36ab27d0-fd9d-4455-823a-ce30af709ffc",
  "make": "TESLA",
  "model": "Model S",
  "year": 2014
}
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 attributes
VehicleAttributes vehicleAttributes = vehicle.attributes();
// Example http response from Smartcar
{
  "id": "36ab27d0-fd9d-4455-823a-ce30af709ffc",
  "make": "TESLA",
  "model": "Model S",
  "year": 2014
}
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 attributes
var info, resErr = vehicle.GetInfo(context.TODO());
// Example http response from Smartcar
{
  "id": "36ab27d0-fd9d-4455-823a-ce30af709ffc",
  "make": "TESLA",
  "model": "Model S",
  "year": 2014
}
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 attributes
vehicle_attributes = vehicle.attributes()
// Example http response from Smartcar
{
  "id": "36ab27d0-fd9d-4455-823a-ce30af709ffc",
  "make": "TESLA",
  "model": "Model S",
  "year": 2014
}
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 live car data

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

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

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