Show HN: Offline NHTSA VIN decoder, verified against NHTSA's own SQL

Category: devtools

Tags: vin-decoder, edge-computing, cloudflare-workers, nhtsa, offline-api

Score: 7.0/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 8, Documentation: 8, Utility: 6)

nhtsa-edge-api is an offline VIN decoder that runs NHTSA's vPIC database inside a Cloudflare Worker, with a TypeScript port of NHTSA's SQL decode functions. It's notable for its rigorous verification: parity tests against the live API, comparisons against NHTSA's own PostgreSQL functions, documented data errata, and weekly data updates committed to git.

Target audience: backend devs, devops, data engineers

Repository: https://github.com/AIKitLLC/nhtsa-edge-api · TypeScript · MIT · 4 stars

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