

Autodata provides automotive technical information to professionally service, maintain, and repair cars, light commercial vehicles, and motorcycles. The API may also support additional formats in the future as they become relevant.Autodata Limited is a British multinational that specialises in automotive data and software. XML format will also be available as an optional output from the Autodata API.Please refer to for more information about JSON.


This means there is a widely available knowledge base on the subject. conforming to the REST standards - Representational State Transfer).Īdopting a RESTful standard is easy for developers to use, supporting multiple data formats and following the industry trend for APIs. All web services available through the API will be RESTful (i.e. The Autodata API will include a suite of web services that will allow developers to interact with our data. Please refer to and for information about OAuth 2. As such, lots of companies are already using this technology and plenty of resources about it are openly available. This is the current prevailing authorisation protocol that allows third-party websites and applications to access data. The API we will be using OAuth 2.0 for access authentication. The content covered by the API will continue to evolve in order to address the evolution of the car park, to enhance the comprehensive nature of the information and to improve the ways of handling it.

