800BlueBook : Data Syndication

Data Syndication of Kelley Blue Book Vehicle Information

Data Syndication products are designed to allow you to incorporate Kelley Blue Book information into your own custom applications or websites.

These products enable you to develop an application which can access Kelley Blue Book information via a Web service or through weekly raw data imports.

InfoDriver Web Service (IDWS)

InfoDriver Web Service is a data syndication service that provides Kelley Blue Book vehicle information and values for use in your applications or websites. KBB hosts the data and provides it to you via a Web service over the Internet.

Depending on your needs, there are many different data elements that can be provided on both new and used vehicles through this service. InfoDriver Web Service can supply the following information which is updated weekly:

• USED VEHICLE DATA

  • Year, make, model, trim, standard and optional equipment
  • Trade-In, Private Party, Suggested Retail, Auction, and Wholesale Lending Values

• NEW VEHICLE DATA

  • Year, make model, trim, standard and optional equipment
  • Invoice, MSRP, and New Car Blue Book^® Values

• BUILT-IN USED CAR VIN DECODER

The services provided by IDWS are delivered using a standard Internet-accessible Web service, which is compatible with virtually any development language or mechanism that supports calling Web services (including Visual Basic .NET, C#, and direct HTTP calls).

InfoDriver Data (IDD)

The InfoDriver Data product allows you to incorporate Kelley Blue Book’s authoritative and unbiased vehicle information and values within your application or website.

InfoDriver Data provides a variety of different data elements such as year, make, model, and is available in either tab delimited or XML formats that can be downloaded via FTP for import into your systems. InfoDriver Data, updated weekly, is available with the following types of data:

• USED VEHICLE DATA

  • Year, make, model, trim, standard and optional equipment, specifications, and editorial content
  • Trade-In, Private Party, Suggested Retail, Auction, and Wholesale Lending Values

• NEW VEHICLE DATA

  • Year, make, model, trim, standard and optional equipment
  • Invoice, MSRP, and New Car Blue Book^® Values

• MOTORCYCLE DATA

  • Wholesale Lending, Suggested Retail, and MSRP Values

• POWERSPORTS (ATVS, PERSONAL WATERCRAFT AND SNOWMOBILES)

  • Wholesale Lending, Suggested Retail, and MSRP Values

• RV/TRAVEL TRAILER DATA

  • Wholesale Lending, Suggested Retail, and MSRP Values

• EARLY MODEL CAR DATA (OLDER THAN 21 YEARS)

  • Trade-In and Suggested Retail Values

• REVIEW DATA

  • Vehicle reviews and articles from Kelley Blue Book’s Editorial Team