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API Integration Documentation

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Test VIN: 1C6RD6FT1CS310366 (Free for testing records check. No balance needed when using test VIN)

GET API Balance: https://connect.carsimulcast.com/balance Copied

GET API Records Check [carfax + autocheck + auctions + window sticker]: https://connect.carsimulcast.com/checkrecords/{VIN} Copied

GET API License Plate to VIN converter [The state is abbreviated]: https://connect.carsimulcast.com/checkplate/{state}/{plate_no} Copied

POST API Image to VIN converter [Send image file name as 'file']: https://connect.carsimulcast.com/scan Copied

CURL Request Example

<?php
        $api_url = "https://connect.carsimulcast.com/checkrecords/{VIN}"; // Replace this API URL with any of the GET URLs provided above.
        $header = array(
            "API-KEY: {Your API_KEY}",
            "API-SECRET: {Your API_SECRET}",
        );

        $curl = curl_init($api_url);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "GET");
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
        $response = curl_exec($curl);
        curl_close($curl);
        ?>

Image to VIN Convert CURL Request Example

<?php
$header = array(
    "API-KEY: {Your API_KEY}",
    "API-SECRET: {Your API_SECRET}",
);
$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://connect.carsimulcast.com/scan",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
  CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => array("file"=> new CURLFILE("Path to File")),
));
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);
$response = curl_exec($curl);

curl_close($curl);
echo $response;

Get Reports

This process generates the HTML report as a Base64 string. To access the original HTML, decode the Base64 string, which can then be stored or viewed.

GET API carfax: https://connect.carsimulcast.com/getrecord/carfax/{VIN} Copied

GET API autocheck: https://connect.carsimulcast.com/getrecord/autocheck/{VIN} Copied

GET API auctions: https://connect.carsimulcast.com/getrecord/auctions/{VIN} Copied

GET API Window sticker [PDF Format Needs Headers in Request]: https://connect.carsimulcast.com/getrecord/sticker/{VIN} Copied

Window Sticker example header

<?php

header("Content-type: application/pdf");

header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=sticker.pdf");

CURL Request GET Report

<?php
    $api_url = "https://connect.carsimulcast.com/getrecord/{report_type}/{VIN}"; // Replace this API URL with any of the URLs provided above.
    $header = array(
        "API-KEY: {Your API_KEY}",
        "API-SECRET: {Your API_SECRET}",
    );
        
    $curl = curl_init($api_url);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "GET");
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
    $response = curl_exec($curl);
    curl_close($curl);
?>