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v1.9.0

29 Mar 21:07

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CarAPI added per-minute throttling of 600 requests per minute (10 per second). Your application will encounter an HTTP 429 error if you go over 600 requests per minute.

v1.7.0

21 Jan 00:26

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We have added antique vehicles 1940-1989 as an add-on subscription. This includes year, make and model. You may login to your dashboard to purchase.

v1.6.5

21 Oct 13:37

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Adds more 2024 vehicles. Another data refresh will occur in the coming months to complete the addition of 2024 vehicles.

v1.6.3

20 Oct 20:54

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Improves VIN to Vehicle Trim matching in the /api/vin endpoint.

v1.6.2

20 Oct 02:06

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Changes to /api/vin endpoint:

  • Improves VIN to vehicle trim matching.
  • Adds verbosity query parameter option. If "yes" then body, engine and mileage data will be included in the results. Default is "no".
  • Adds all_trims query parameter option. If "yes" then all trims matching the VINs model are returned, otherwise only trims matching the VIN characteristics are returned. Default is "no".

v1.6.1

19 Oct 00:16

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Increases max page limit on all endpoints with pagination to 1,000 (default: 100).

v1.6.0

08 Oct 00:54

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  • New subscription plans. If you were on our previous subscription plan, you have been automatically upgraded to our Volume plan. Your original purchase price will be honored for the life of your account.
  • All subscription plans now have daily rate limits. Please see https://carapi.app/pricing for details.
  • Adds new endpoint /api/accounts/requests-today for retrieving requests made today by your account to metered endpoints.
  • Requests made to /api/auth/login will now return an HTTP 400 if the content-type request header is not set to application/json.

v1.5.5

01 Aug 22:54

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  • Improves /api/vin matching capabilities
  • Adds make and model to /api/vin response under the trims property.

v1.5.4

21 Jul 20:23

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  • Adds new JSON search filters to /api/bodies
  • Adds new JSON search filters to /api/milieages

v1.5.2

14 Jul 13:38

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  • Improves trim matching for VIN lookups.
  • Alphabetizes keys in VIN specification results.