NHTSA Vehicle Recalls & Complaints Scraper
Scrape official US vehicle safety recalls and consumer complaints from the NHTSA database by make, model and year. Get recall campaign numbers, affected components, defect summaries, consequences, remedies and injury reports. Export to JSON, CSV or Excel.
{ "dataset": "recalls", "campaignNumber": "20V314000", "make": "HONDA", "model": "ACCORD", "modelYear": "2018", "component": "FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:DELIVERY:FUEL PUMP", "summary": "Honda (American Honda Motor Co.) is recalling …", "consequence": "If the fuel pump fails, the engine can stall w…", "remedy": "Honda will notify owners and dealers will repl…" }
Every run returns clean, typed records, ready for your CRM, spreadsheet or database.
- One clean record per result, deduped and normalized
- Stable schema in JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it via the Apify API
- Pay per use in the cloud, nothing to install or maintain
A real example record, exactly the shape you receive.
| Dataset | Campaign Number | Make | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| recalls | 20V314000 | HONDA | ACCORD |
| recalls | 20V771000 | HONDA | ACCORD |
| recalls | 18V629000 | HONDA | ACCORD |
| recalls | 23V158000 | HONDA | ACCORD |
| recalls | 23V858000 | HONDA | ACCORD |
{ "dataset": "recalls", "campaignNumber": "20V314000", "make": "HONDA", "model": "ACCORD", "modelYear": "2018", "component": "FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:DELIVERY:FUEL PUMP", "summary": "Honda (American Honda Motor Co.) is recalling …", "consequence": "If the fuel pump fails, the engine can stall w…", "remedy": "Honda will notify owners and dealers will repl…" }
Frequently asked questions
Does this cover every car brand sold in the United States?
Yes. NHTSA tracks recalls and complaints for vehicles sold in the US market, so any make and model with records in the federal database can be queried. Spell the make and model the way NHTSA does, for example Honda and Accord, and provide the model year.
What is the difference between the recalls and complaints datasets?
Recalls are official campaigns filed by manufacturers when a defect needs a fix, each with a campaign number, consequence and remedy. Complaints are problems individual drivers reported to NHTSA, each with the consumer's own description. Choose which one to pull with the Dataset option.
Can I pull several models or years at once?
Yes. Add multiple makes, models and model years and the actor runs every combination. For example two makes, one model and two years runs four queries and combines all matching records into one dataset.
Why are make, model and year all required?
NHTSA returns recall and complaint data per exact vehicle, so each query needs all three. If a combination has no records the actor simply moves on and reports nothing for it rather than failing.
What happens when a field has no value?
Fields that NHTSA does not provide for a record are returned as null and never invented. Recall-only fields are null on complaint records and complaint-only fields are null on recall records.
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