Any limits on the autocheck.com api?

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I learned about the autocheck.com api from another thread:


It's been really accurate (and fast!) for every vehicle I've looked up.

I can't find much info about it on their website. Does anyone know if there are any limits to the number of lookups we can perform?

Are other people using it?
 
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I'm not finding much about using that API. I wish it had color, but the rest of it is nice.
 
wrybread said:
I learned about the autocheck.com api from another thread:


It's been really accurate (and fast!) for every vehicle I've looked up.

I can't find much info about it on their website. Does anyone know if there are any limits to the number of lookups we can perform?

Are other people using it?
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Interesting-- I am looking at using the open ALPR on GITHUB that has not been maintained-- this might be a good double check to see if the plate is valid...
 
wrybread said:
I learned about the autocheck.com api from another thread:


It's been really accurate (and fast!) for every vehicle I've looked up.

I can't find much info about it on their website. Does anyone know if there are any limits to the number of lookups we can perform?

Are other people using it?
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That is impressive and something I can use. I wonder if there is a limit to how many if using a program to collect the information?
 
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That is impressive and something I can use. I wonder if there is a limit to how many if using a program to collect the information?
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If there is a limit, it's quite high. I'm running a backlog of 10k distinct plates through it right now. Hit nearly 2k and it's still going at a few per second.
 
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Also I had similar load probably around 20-30k plates.. So far so good :) Thanks to Gymratz with new viewer/downloader :) All tagged.. now :)
 
First I’ve heard of this service. I don’t see an API key in your example so I imagine it’s free to use?


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Currently - hopefully it stays that way!
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I run the open source version of OpenALPR and my vision would be for each new plate capture to query this service and add the make/model/etc to my database. If it already has the data there is no need to query the service again.


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I run the open source version of OpenALPR and my vision would be for each new plate capture to query this service and add the make/model/etc to my database. If it already has the data there is no need to query the service again.


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That is exactly what the updated version if my app does. Well, slight tweak on the timing - but same effect. Just released it this weekend.

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Looks like the autocheck api is now down:


Querying it returns an error that I'm not authenticated.

I can't find on their website how to authenticate or pay for the service. Oh well, was really useful and accurate for translating license plates into car makes, models and years.

Has anyone found another API for plate lookup? Or have any idea how to purchase the autocheck.com api use?
 
Yep, several of us did an exhaustive search when this went down and could not find another free one. We checked with autocheck and it is actually through Experian now and they would not provide a reasonable quote to obtain that info.

Many of us are now using this one that is $15/month. He plans to add color soon to the system and fingers crossed owner information down the line.

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We have found it to similar or slightly more accurate. When I switched to it I had like 1500 plates autocheck didn't have and this site had almost all of them. YMMV.
 
Thank you! Working beautifully. And as you say it's getting plates that autocheck.com missed. And the wording on some known plates is a bit different, so it's definitely a different database.

For example autocheck called a specific truck a "2017 GMC Sierra 3500 W" and licenseplatedata calls it a "2017 GMC Sierra 3500HD". Both right, but interesting that there's a difference.

Some other differences:

"2014 Ram 1500 SLT" versus "2014 Ram 1500" on licenseplatedata.

"2001 Toyota Tundra Limited" versus "2001 Toyota Tundra"

"2017 Honda Accord Sport" versus "2017 Honda Accord"

And so far there hasn't been a single time where the autocheck api knew the plate but licenseplatedata didn't, although I haven't fed it a list of plates yet, just going by regular traffic as it comes.

I wonder where this data is coming from?
 
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I wonder, too, where the source data is. Many of these look up sites are reseller partners to wherever the data comes from. I suspect one of the sources is Esperian; they offer products to consumers, dealers, and to reseller partners. But their bulk data is very expensive, and includes a lot of data which LPR hobbyists don't need. Hence it's good to locate a reseller who can trickle out basic VIN data to us for a small recurring fee.
 
For color, for here in California, and for the "7xxxxxx" plates, I'm getting 78% success. The other 22% are "unknown".
 
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