CarAPI Vehicles API

openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Car Authentication Vehicles API
  description: CarAPI provides detailed vehicle information including specifications, pricing, and availability for a wide range of cars. The REST API allows clients to authenticate, look up vehicle models, retrieve trim-level detail, and query enumerated vehicle attributes.
  version: v1
  contact:
    name: CarAPI Support
    url: https://carapi.app/
  termsOfService: https://carapi.app/
servers:
- url: https://carapi.app
  description: CarAPI production server
security:
- bearerAuth: []
tags:
- name: Vehicles
  description: Operations for retrieving vehicle models, trims, and attributes.
paths:
  /api/models:
    get:
      operationId: listModels
      summary: List Vehicle Models
      description: Returns a paginated list of vehicle models, with support for sorting and filtering by make, year, and other criteria.
      tags:
      - Vehicles
      parameters:
      - name: limit
        in: query
        description: Maximum number of records to return.
        schema:
          type: integer
      - name: page
        in: query
        description: Page number for pagination.
        schema:
          type: integer
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A paginated list of models
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/GenericObject'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
  /api/trims:
    get:
      operationId: listTrims
      summary: List Vehicle Trims
      description: Returns a paginated list of vehicle trims with support for filtering by make, model, and year.
      tags:
      - Vehicles
      parameters:
      - name: limit
        in: query
        description: Maximum number of records to return.
        schema:
          type: integer
      - name: page
        in: query
        description: Page number for pagination.
        schema:
          type: integer
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A paginated list of trims
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/GenericObject'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
  /api/vehicle-attributes:
    get:
      operationId: listVehicleAttributes
      summary: List Vehicle Attributes
      description: Returns the enumerated set of vehicle attributes (e.g., body types, drive types, transmission types) supported by the data set.
      tags:
      - Vehicles
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A list of vehicle attributes
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/GenericObject'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
components:
  schemas:
    GenericObject:
      type: object
      description: Generic JSON object response.
      additionalProperties: true
    Error:
      type: object
      description: Generic error response.
      properties:
        code:
          type: string
        message:
          type: string
      additionalProperties: true
  responses:
    Unauthorized:
      description: Authentication credentials are missing or invalid.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: JWT
      description: JWT bearer token obtained from /api/auth/login.
externalDocs:
  description: CarAPI Documentation
  url: https://carapi.app/docs/
x-generated-from: https://carapi.app/docs/
x-generated-by: claude-crawl-2026-05-08