Wild card search in an API query

[DoctorDoom]

I'm relatively new, please excuse the ignorance. I have successfully used a API to get vehicle information. But I would like to perform a search where all possible vehicle meeting the vin criteria is returned. "5UXWX7C5*BA" is a specific vin but I would like to use "5UX" and have it return everything with this criteria. Is this possible?

api_call <- httr::GET ("https://vpic.nhtsa.dot.gov/api/vehicles/DecodeVinValuesExtended/5UXWX7C5*BA?format=json&modelyear=2011")

api_call$status_code

api_call$content

api_char <- base :: rawToChar(api_call$content)
api_JSON <-jsonlite::fromJSON(api_char, )
api_JSON

[andresrcs]

This is not something you get from R but from the API, you would need to check the API's documentation to see if it provides wildcard or regex searching functionalities.

[DoctorDoom]

The API owner does not provide much. Vehicle API

Are there any conventions I can play around with like "", * or a function that is widely used?

[andresrcs]

APIs are only a mean or protocol of communication among different systems or software so there are no standard functionalities, it all depends on what has been implemented on the specific API. As I said, this is not R dependent at all, I think your best hope is to contact the API provider and ask them if that kind of request is supported.