Image to Vehicle
Search for a vehicle using an image and get detailed info
Have you ever looked at a car or a picture of a car and wondered what's the make, model and year of that vehicle?
The What Car Is That? API given an image (link or base64 string) uses machine learning to identify the particular make, model, year, and body style of the car in the image. The API is able to identify over 3000 vehicles and the dataset is growing everyday!
This endpoint allows you to retrieve a vehicle's basic specifications such as make, model and year from an image.
Required attributes
- Name
key- Type
- string
- Description
Your CarsXE API key.
- Name
body- Type
- string
- Description
POST body that's a URL to an image or the base64 string of the image.
Response attributes
- Name
success- Type
- boolean
- Description
Whether the algorithm has been able to successfully analyze the image.
- Name
results- Type
- array
- Description
A list (array) of "vehicle" elements or objects, each of which contain the body style, year, make, model and confidence score (between 0 and 1).
The confidence score is a probability that the vehicle in the image matches the values returned.
- Name
message- Type
- string
- Description
String detailing error if any.
Frequently asked questions
Request
curl --location 'https://api.carsxe.com/whatcaristhat?key=CARSXE_API_KEY' \
--header 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
--data 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/2019_Acura_RDX_A-Spec_front_red_4.2.18.jpg'Response
{
"success": true,
"results": [{
"body_style": "SUV",
"confidence": "0.99",
"make": "Acura",
"model": "RDX",
"model_year": "2018"
},
{
"body_style": "SUV",
"confidence": "0.00",
"make": "Acura",
"model": "RDX",
"model_year": "2015"
},{...}],
"message": "Could not make out the vehicle in the image."
}