dvla-vehicle-information v1.0.0

dvla-vehicle-information

A very ugly library to request basic vehicle infomation from the GOV.UK website. Works by making a couple of HTTP requests that a browser normally would, and then scrapes the resulting HTML. Very hacky, but there's no official API that I can see.

Of course, this means the library is subject to sudden breakages should the GOV.UK website change.

Usage

• Install using npm: npm install dvla-vehicle-information
• Import into your code: var dvlaInfo = require('dvla-vehicle-information')
• Requiring the library imports a function: dvlaInfo(numberplate, callback)
• After the function has completed, the callback will be executed with the following object if successful:

{
    taxDate: '01 June 2018',
    taxed: true,
    motDate: '24 July 2018',
    mot: true,
    'Vehicle make': 'SKODA',
    'Date of first registration': 'July 2009',
    'Year of manufacture': '2009',
    'Cylinder capacity (cc)': '1422 cc',
    'CO₂Emissions': '120 g/km',
    'Fuel type': 'DIESEL',
    'Export marker': 'No',
    'Vehicle status': 'Tax not due',
    'Vehicle colour': ' RED',
    'Vehicle type approval': 'M1',
    Wheelplan: '2 AXLE RIGID BODY',
    'Revenue weight': 'Not available'
}

Running the cli-dump.js with a numberplate as its argument will spit out the resulting object to the command line. This is useful for quick tests of lookups.

Note that this library does not yet implement error reporting and development is in its early stages. Any unmatched numberplates will currently return the following:

{
    taxDate: '',
    taxed: true,
    motDate: '',
    mot: true }

Examples

• Reminders - This library was built to integrate MOT and tax reminders into a Facebook chat bot I built, using the excellent facebook-chat-api on npm.
• ANPR - Integrate enriched data into a basic ANPR system.
• Being nosey - Look up info for the thrill.

Licence

This library is released under the GPL V2.

Development

Pull requests are highly encouraged and welcomed.