{"categories":[{"label":"Utilities","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/utilities/6"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"Extracts and verifies information from Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs), including manufacturer, country, region, and detailed vehicle specs when available.","skillfed_tags":["automotive","data-extraction","cli-tool"],"use_cases":["Validate and decode VINs in automotive inventory or sales systems to automatically populate vehicle metadata.","Verify VIN checksums in data pipelines to catch data entry errors or corrupted identifiers.","Extract manufacturer and country information from bulk VIN lists for compliance or analytics reporting.","Build a vehicle lookup feature in a mobile or web app that shows detailed specs for supported brands.","Audit vehicle registration databases by decoding and cross-checking VIN components against expected values."],"what_it_does":"Vininfo is a Python library and CLI tool that decodes Vehicle Identification Numbers to extract structured information about vehicles. It parses the standard VIN format into its components (WMI, VDS, VIS) and maps them to real-world data like country of origin, manufacturer, and region. For supported brands\u2014AvtoVAZ, Ford Australia, Nissan, Opel, and Renault\u2014it can extract additional details such as body type, engine code, model name, and plant location. The package also provides VIN checksum verification to validate whether a number is correctly formatted.\n\nYou can use it either as a Python library by importing the Vin class and calling methods on VIN strings, or as a standalone CLI tool to query VINs from the command line. It has no runtime dependencies for basic use, making it lightweight to integrate into existing projects.","worth_installing":"Yes. Vininfo is lightweight, actively maintained, has no runtime dependencies, and solves a specific problem well. Install it if you need to parse or validate VINs in your application. The permissive BSD-3-Clause license poses no barrier. Be aware that detailed vehicle specs are only available for five major brands; for other manufacturers, you get only basic WMI-level information."},"id":"vininfo","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/vininfo","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/vininfo.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/vininfo/"},"maintenance":{"status":"active"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2026-05-02","license_spdx":"BSD-3-Clause","license_treatment":"permissive","name":"vininfo","python_support":"supports_current","summary":"Extracts useful information from Vehicle Identification Number (VIN)"},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":377484,"position":7123,"tier":"top_15000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"1.11.0"}