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marcinjean/laravel-vpic
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Laravel-native vPIC (NHTSA) VIN decoder with exception-based flow and idempotent persistence.

1.3.1(7mo ago)127MITPHPPHP ^8.2

Since May 5Pushed 7mo ago1 watchersCompare

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Laravel vPIC (VIN Decoder) by Marcin Jean
=========================================

[](#laravel-vpic-vin-decoder-by-marcin-jean)

A lightweight, Laravel-native wrapper around NHTSA’s **vPIC** API for decoding VINs — with:

- **Exception-based** error handling using vPIC `ErrorCode`/`ErrorText`
- Clean, **idempotent** persistence (single canonical `hash` over full payload)
- **Batch** decoding with per-VIN errors
- Simple service (`VPicService`) and optional Facade (`VPic`) for ergonomic use

> Works great for repair-story pipelines, TSB indexing, and recall integrations.

---

✨ Features
----------

[](#-features)

- **Decode single or batch VINs** via vPIC REST endpoints
- Throws **meaningful exceptions**:
    - `InvalidVinException` (bad VIN format)
    - `VpicHttpException` (HTTP failure)
    - `VpicDecodeException` (vPIC `ErrorCode != 0`; exposes `ErrorText`)
- **Database persistence** (optional) into `vpic_decoded_vins` with a **single SHA-256** `hash` to avoid churn
- **Sanitized payloads** (common “nullish” values → `null`) and trimmed strings
- Publishable **config** + **migration**
- Clean service contract for future offline driver support

---

🧩 Requirements
--------------

[](#-requirements)

- **PHP**: 8.2+
- **Laravel**: 11.x or 12.x (works with 10.x if you adjust constraints)
- PHP `ext-json`
- Laravel HTTP client available (standard in modern Laravel)

---

📦 Installation
--------------

[](#-installation)

```
composer require marcinjean/laravel-vpic
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=vpic-config
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=vpic-migrations
php artisan migrate
```

###  Health Score

36

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LowBetter than 82% of packages

Maintenance63

Regular maintenance activity

Popularity10

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity53

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~37 days

Total

5

Last Release

226d ago

PHP version history (2 changes)1.0.0PHP ^8.0

1.3.0PHP ^8.2

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/da4379f2f58b0a207d390a5a155dda3299105f8240797f0f7ae191acb2eea295?d=identicon)[MarcinJean](/maintainers/MarcinJean)

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Top Contributors

[![MarcinJean](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/82165361?v=4)](https://github.com/MarcinJean "MarcinJean (8 commits)")

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