openapi: 3.0.1
info:
title: Vincario VIN Decoder Account Vehicle Info API
description: 'REST API for the vindecoder.eu service operated by Vincario. The API decodes a Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) into a full vehicle specification and also provides vehicle market value, real-time stolen-vehicle checks, the list of decodable vehicle details, and the remaining account balance.
Authentication uses an API key (id) and a secret key. Each request carries a per-request control sum in the URL path. The control sum is the first 10 characters of the SHA1 hash of the pipe-delimited string `{lookup}|{id}|{apikey}|{secretkey}`, where `{lookup}` is the uppercased VIN for VIN-based endpoints (decode, vininfo, vehicle-market-value, stolencheck) and the API key itself for the balance endpoint, and `{id}` is the endpoint identifier (for example `decode`, `vininfo`, `vehicle-market-value`, `stolencheck`, `balance`). The secret key is never transmitted; it is only used to derive the control sum. The path layout is `/{apikey}/{controlsum}/{id}/{vin}.json`.'
termsOfService: https://vindecoder.eu/terms
contact:
name: Vincario Support
url: https://vincario.com
version: '3.2'
servers:
- url: https://api.vindecoder.eu/3.2
description: Vincario VIN Decoder API v3.2
security:
- signedPath: []
tags:
- name: Vehicle Info
paths:
/{apikey}/{controlsum}/vininfo/{vin}.json:
get:
operationId: vinInfo
tags:
- Vehicle Info
summary: List the vehicle details available for a VIN.
description: Returns the list of vehicle details that can be decoded for the supplied VIN. This informational lookup is free of charge. The control sum is computed from `{VIN}|vininfo|{apikey}|{secretkey}`.
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/ApiKey'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/ControlSum'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/Vin'
responses:
'200':
description: Available decodable details for the VIN.
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/VinInfoResponse'
'400':
$ref: '#/components/responses/Error'
'403':
$ref: '#/components/responses/Error'
components:
parameters:
ApiKey:
name: apikey
in: path
required: true
description: The account API key (id).
schema:
type: string
Vin:
name: vin
in: path
required: true
description: The 17-character Vehicle Identification Number (uppercase).
schema:
type: string
minLength: 11
maxLength: 17
example: WF0MXXGBWM8R43240
ControlSum:
name: controlsum
in: path
required: true
description: First 10 characters of `sha1("{lookup}|{id}|{apikey}|{secretkey}")`.
schema:
type: string
minLength: 10
maxLength: 10
schemas:
VinInfoResponse:
type: object
properties:
vininfo:
type: array
description: List of vehicle details that can be decoded for the VIN.
items:
type: object
properties:
label:
type: string
id:
type: integer
ErrorResponse:
type: object
properties:
error:
type: string
description: Human-readable error message.
example: Invalid VIN
code:
type: integer
description: Error code.
example: 400
responses:
Error:
description: Error response (invalid VIN, bad control sum, or insufficient balance).
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
securitySchemes:
signedPath:
type: apiKey
in: query
name: controlsum
description: Path-signed authentication. The API key (id) and a per-request SHA1 control sum are passed as URL path segments rather than headers or query parameters; this scheme is declared as a placeholder because OpenAPI 3.0 cannot natively express path-segment-based signed credentials. The control sum is `substr(sha1("{lookup}|{id}|{apikey}|{secretkey}"), 0, 10)`. The secret key is never sent over the wire.