Wmi Lookup

{
  "asOf": "2026-10-12T00:49:45.035Z",
  "availableToPublicFrom": "2015-01-01",
  "commonName": "Honda",
  "country": "United States",
  "degraded": false,
  "disclaimer": "Screening signal computed from the named public source. Not financial, legal or investment advice; provided as is. Verify at the source before acting.",
  "make": "HONDA",
  "manufacturerName": "AMERICAN HONDA MOTOR CO., INC.",
  "notChecked": [
    "manufacturers that are not registered with NHTSA (vPIC lists mainly vehicles for the US market)",
    "the plant, model or year (a WMI identifies only the manufacturer and vehicle type)",
    "…1 more"
  ],
  "parentCompany": null,
  "reasons": [
    "First character places it in North America, country United States."
  ],
  "region": "North America",
  "registeredOn": "2015-03-26",
  "source": "NHTSA vPIC (Vehicle Product Information Catalog)",
  "sourceUrl": "https://vpic.nhtsa.dot.gov/api/",
  "summary": "1HG belongs to AMERICAN HONDA MOTOR CO., INC. (HONDA), Passenger Car.",
  "vehicleType": "Passenger Car",
  "verdict": "FOUND",
  "wmi": "1HG"
}

# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://vehicle-vin.x402tookit.com/wmi-lookup?wmi=1HG'

# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - 'https://vehicle-vin.x402tookit.com/wmi-lookup?wmi=1HG' \
  | grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decode

// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

// Pays at most $0.02 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.02" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);

// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.02 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fvehicle-vin.x402tookit.com%2Fwmi-lookup
const res = await pay("https://vehicle-vin.x402tookit.com/wmi-lookup?wmi=1HG");
console.log(res.status, await res.text());

# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client

# Pays at most $0.02 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.02"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))

with x402_requests(client) as session:
    res = session.get("https://vehicle-vin.x402tookit.com/wmi-lookup?wmi=1HG")
    print(res.status_code, res.text)