"What Car Is That?" API

Have you ever looked at a car or a picture of a car and wondered what's the make, model and year of that vehicle?

The What Car Is That? API given an image (link or base64 string) uses machine learning to identify the particular make, model, year, and body style of the car in the image. The API is able to identify over 3000 vehicles and the dataset is growing everyday!

POST/whatcaristhat

What Car Is That?

This endpoint allows you to retrieve a vehicle's basic specifications such as make, model and year from an image.

Required attributes

Name
key
Type
string
Description
Your CarsXE API key.
Name
body
Type
string
Description
POST body that's a URL to an image or the base64 string of the image.

Response attributes

Name
success
Type
boolean
Description
Whether the algorithm has been able to successfully analyze the image.
Name
results
Type
array
Description
A list (array) of "vehicle" elements or objects, each of which contain the body style, year, make, model and confidence score (between 0 and 1).
The confidence score is a probability that the vehicle in the image matches the values returned.
Name
message
Type
string
Description
String detailing error if any.

FAQ

Title
Is the What Car Is That API included in the free trial?
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Yes! The What Car Is That API is included in the 7-day free trial. For more information visit our pricing page.

Request

POST

/whatcaristhat

curl --location 'https://api.carsxe.com/whatcaristhat?key=CARSXE_API_KEY' \
--header 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
--data 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/2019_Acura_RDX_A-Spec_front_red_4.2.18.jpg'

Response

{
  "success": true,
  "results": [{
      "body_style": "SUV",
      "confidence": "0.99",
      "make": "Acura",
      "model": "RDX",
      "model_year": "2018"
  },
  {
      "body_style": "SUV",
      "confidence": "0.00",
      "make": "Acura",
      "model": "RDX",
      "model_year": "2015"
  },{...}],
  "message": "Could not make out the vehicle in the image."
}