We now officially offer API integration
Welcome to the Car Simulcast API service. You'll need your own website to integrate the API.
Do you need a website to set up the API? We offer a clone of our main website (carsimulcast.com) fully white-labeled to match your company brand. We handle maintenance, so you focus on sales. You have the choice to host it on your own server or we can offer you hosting service with unlimited resources for $9.99 / month.
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Test VIN: 1C6RD6FT1CS310366 (Free for testing and report generation.)
API [carfax + autocheck]:
https://connect.carsimulcast.com/checkrecords/{VIN}
API [auctions]:
https://connect.carsimulcast.com/checkrecords/{VIN}/auctions
API [window sticker]:
https://connect.carsimulcast.com/checkrecords/{VIN}/sticker
Our system charges one credit for every 15 checks that DO NOT generate a report. This policy is in place to accommodate users who wish to only use our record checks without utilizing the report generation API. You can avoid this fee by generating at least one report for every 15 checks.
<?php
$api_url = "https://connect.carsimulcast.com/checkrecords/{VIN}";
$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);
?>Get Reports
This will generate and return the HTML report as a base64 string. You will need to decode the base64 string to retrieve the original HTML, which can then be stored and viewed. Note that the window stickers output is in PDF Format.
Available report types: carfax / autocheck / auctions / sticker
**Note:** You need to set headers for PDF to view the Window Sticker Report. Below is an example of setting headers in PHP:
<?php
header("Content-type: application/pdf");
header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=sticker.pdf");
<?php
$api_url = "https://connect.carsimulcast.com/getrecord/{report_type}/{VIN}";
$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);
?>Get API Balance
<?php
$api_url = "https://connect.carsimulcast.com/balance";
$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);
?>Get VIN From License Plate
<?php
$api_url = "https://connect.carsimulcast.com/checkplate/{state}/{plate_no}";
$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);
?>Get VIN From Images
Send the image file with the name 'file' in the POST request to retrieve the VIN. The system will generate and return the corresponding JSON record.
<?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;