# Macaroon Network NHTSA Vehicle Recall Search

> Macaroon Network NHTSA Vehicle Recall Search is a paid API for AI agents from api.macaroonnetwork.com, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Looks up official U.S. vehicle safety recalls from the NHTSA by make, model, and model year, returning campaign details, affected components, defect summaries, safety consequences, and remedies.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.macaroonnetwork.com/execute/nhtsa-vehicle-recall-search-v1
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/macaroon-network-nhtsa-vehicle-recall-search-3caa58b6
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_HxcbsOQZS0YrajYEg4K1L

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability macaroon-network-nhtsa-vehicle-recall-search-3caa58b6 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you check if there are any official NHTSA safety recalls on a 2019 Toyota Camry — I want to see the campaign numbers, which components are affected, what the defect is, and what the remedy is?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need authoritative, government-sourced U.S. vehicle safety recall data directly from NHTSA for a specific make, model, and year. Prefer this over general web searches when you need structured, machine-readable recall records including campaign numbers, component details, defect descriptions, and official remedies. Note that NHTSA safety ratings and complaint records are not covered by this endpoint.

## Known failure modes

- No recalls found for the specified make/model/year returns an empty result set
- Invalid or unrecognized vehicle make, model, or year may return no results or an error
- NHTSA upstream API unavailability causes request failure
- Misspelled make or model name may yield no matches
- Model year out of NHTSA's available data range returns empty results

## How this service works

Look up official U.S. vehicle safety recalls by make, model, and model year -- campaign number, affected component, defect summary, safety consequence, and remedy. The only source used is the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's own public API (api.nhtsa.gov). Restricted to recall lookup only for v1; NHTSA safety ratings and complaint records are a different part of the same API family and are not covered.

## Output

Returns one or more recall records from NHTSA for the queried vehicle, each including the recall campaign number, the affected vehicle component, a description of the defect, the safety consequence of the defect, and the official remedy instructions.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method",
    "bodyType",
    "body"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "body": {
     "type": "object"
    },
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "POST",
      "PUT",
      "PATCH"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "bodyType": {
     "enum": [
      "json",
      "form-data",
      "text"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/macaroon-network-nhtsa-vehicle-recall-search-3caa58b6/health.json
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