Vinnie is a simple command-line tool to tell you some basic information about a vehicle based on its vehicle identification number (VIN).
There are a handful of different VIN standards worldwide that aren't quite compatible. This tool uses information sourced from the United States National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and will only return valid data for North American VINs (specifically, the relevant data can be found in Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations). European VINs adhere more closely to ISO 3779:2009, which this tool doesn't implement.
Additionally, the NHTSA format was standardized in 1981, so earlier VINs likely won't work with this tool.
- C compiler (gcc, clang, MSVC, etc.)
- Meson
- Ninja
- Check (optional, for unit testing)
- Doxygen and Graphviz (optional, for API documentation)
On Debian-based systems, you can install these requirements with:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential meson ninja-build check doxygen graphvizmeson build
cd build
ninja && ninja installYou can also call ninja test in the build directory to run the unit tests.
If you'd like to build the API documentation, install Doxygen and Graphviz and run doxygen in the same directory as this project's Doxyfile.
Simply run vinnie <VIN> where VIN is a 17-digit vehicle identification number. The program will tell you if it's a valid VIN and, if so, print some basic info about the car, such as the model year, manufacturer, region built, and so on.
This program is still under active development, so features are not likely to work as expected or described. Even so, if you find bugs, please file an issue in the project's issue tracker or create a pull request to fix it. I'll try to respond to either within a few days.
There's no set coding convention to adhere to, but I'd prefer it if any contributions matched the existing style of the source code (put opening braces on the same line as the class/function, don't omit braces for short if/then blocks, etc.). In other words, despite this being C, I indent like it's Java. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Copyright (c) 2018-2019 Cody Logan.
Vinnie is free to use, modify, distribute, etc. according to the terms of the MIT License.