Curb Weight DB

Originally Posted by davidatchets

Hello!

I'm wondering if anyone knows the most complete, updated and available DB for vehicle curb weights? I found a few outdated and/or very partial db's but nothing really great. Wondering if anyone was able to find anything out there?

Right now, we Google the make/model/trim/year to get the curb weight. Google does a good job at syndicating all the data in one place, but many times it's not the actual curb weight so it requires clicking through to verify that the one they chose to display is the correct weight which wastes time.

Would love to hear from you all!

Thanks!

Not sure of your programming skills but if you Google "vehicle data API" there are a quite a few that come up. Some are free, some you have to pay for. But using one of those it would probably be very easy to make a script or webpage to get that info for you quickly/easily


This one looks pretty promising (cause its free and on a .gov)
https://vpic.nhtsa.dot.gov/api/



For example this URL gets you a JSON return of all 2011 Acura Models and their specs (CW=curb weight)

https://vpic.nhtsa.dot.gov/api/vehic...US&format=json



You can also get it in CSV or XML. I prefer the JSON though and it is readable if you have a json parsing browser extention.

If it were me and I needed this I would make a quick HTML file with drop-downs for the makes/model/year and then have it get the data (via an ajax call in js) and just parse out the models and results for you.



If there is enough interest from anyone I could probably make a quick website that does just that in less than an hour....