Examples

We have examples for Ruby on Rails, PHP, for VB .NET and for cURL.
For more information, see pullmonkey.com's VIN API posts.

For Ruby on Rails:

The Setup:

Your ActiveResource will look like this:

class VinApi < ActiveResource::Base
  headers["X-VinApiKey"] = "YOUR_API_KEY_GOES_HERE"
  self.site = "http://vinapi.skizmo.com"
  self.element_name = "vin"
end

Example:

# call from anywhere in your application - models, controllers, views, libs ...
VinApi.find("VIN GOES HERE")

# and get this result set
{"vin"          => "VIN GOES HERE", 
 "year"         => "2003",
 "make"         => "HONDA", 
 "model"        => "ACCORD EX", 
 "body_style"   => "COUPE", 
 "engine_type"  => "3.0L V6  SFI SOHC 24V", 
 "country"      => "UNITED STATES"}

For PHP:

Example:

<?php
function decodeVIN($vin){
  $curl = curl_init();
        curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://vinapi.skizmo.com/vins/'.$vin.'.xml');
  curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/xml', 'X-VinApiKey: YOUR_API_KEY_GOES_HERE'));
  $result = curl_exec ($curl);
  curl_close ($curl);
  return $result;
}
$vin = preg_replace("/[^A-Za-z0-9.]/", "", $_GET['vin']);
if(isset($_GET['vin'])){
  $decoded_vin = decodeVIN($vin);
  echo $decoded_vin;
}
?>

For VB .NET:

Example:

Public Function DecodeVIN(ByVal VIN As String, Optional ByVal Complete As Boolean = False) As String
  Try
    Dim aResponse() As Byte
    Dim sResponse As String = ""
    Dim oWebclient As New WebClient
    Dim oEncoder As New System.Text.ASCIIEncoding
    
    'Call the API
    oWebclient = New WebClient
    oWebclient.Headers.Add("X-VinApiKey", "APIKEYGOESHERE")
    
    If Complete = True Then
      aResponse = oWebclient.DownloadData("http://vinapi.skizmo.com/vins/" & VIN & ".xml?complete=true")
    Else
      aResponse = oWebclient.DownloadData("http://vinapi.skizmo.com/vins/" & VIN & ".xml")
    End If
    sResponse = oEncoder.GetString(aResponse)
    'Debug.Print(sResponse)
    
    Return sResponse
    Catch ex As Exception
  End Try
  Return Nothing
End Function

For anything else - use cURL:

Example:

curl -i -X GET \
  -H "Content-Type: application/xml" \
  -H "X-VinApiKey: YOUR_KEY_GOES_HERE" \
  http://vinapi.skizmo.com/vins/VINGOESHERE.xml

For more information:

For more information, see pullmonkey.com's VIN API posts.