generated: '2026-07-28'
method: searched
source: >-
  Registry searches on 2026-07-28 against npm (registry.npmjs.org search),
  PyPI (pypi.org/pypi/<name>/json), and the github.com/tc-ca organisation
  listing (69 public repos enumerated via the GitHub API).
finding: >-
  Transport Canada publishes NO client libraries. There is no first-party SDK
  on npm, PyPI, Maven Central, NuGet, pkg.go.dev, RubyGems, Packagist or
  crates.io for the Vehicle Recalls Database API, and none is needed for the
  airports layer — the ArcGIS REST and OGC WMS interfaces are consumed with
  existing third-party clients (Esri JS API, GDAL/OGR, OWSLib, QGIS), which is
  the practical benefit of publishing to a standard rather than a bespoke shape.
packages: []
official_sdks: 0
searches:
  - {registry: npm, query: 'transport-canada', result: no first-party match}
  - {registry: npm, query: 'vehicle-recall', result: no first-party match}
  - {registry: npm, query: 'cadors', result: 0 results}
  - {registry: npm, query: 'tc.gc.ca', result: 0 results}
  - {registry: pypi, query: 'transport-canada', result: 404}
  - {registry: pypi, query: 'vrdb', result: 404}
  - {registry: pypi, query: 'cadors', result: 404}
first_party_reference_implementations:
  note: >-
    Not client libraries and not installable from any registry, but genuinely
    first-party code that consumes these APIs. Recorded because they are the
    only worked examples Transport Canada has ever published — and because the
    Alexa skill is, as far as this review can tell, the department's single
    public demonstration of its own API.
  items:
    - name: alexa-gc-recalls
      url: https://github.com/tc-ca/alexa-gc-recalls
      language: javascript
      license: MIT
      last_pushed: '2022-12-30'
      archived: false
      description: >-
        "Vehicle Safety Recalls, an experimental Alexa Skill project" — an AWS
        Lambda Alexa skill (lambda/custom/handlers/customIntents/
        searchForVehicleRecallHandler.js and siblings) that queries the Vehicle
        Recalls Database API by make, model and year. Bilingual (i18n
        directory). Consumer, not SDK.
      official: true
    - name: alexa-gc-recalls-training-data
      url: https://github.com/tc-ca/alexa-gc-recalls-training-data
      description: Utterance training data for the skill above.
      official: true
third_party:
  searched: true
  found: []
  note: >-
    No maintained third-party wrapper was found on any registry. Consumers of
    the recalls API build the path-segment URL directly — which the API Guide
    documents and which needs no library.
consumption_without_sdk:
  - {interface: Vehicle Recalls Database API, client: any HTTP client, note: 'Plain GET; URL-building is the whole integration.'}
  - {interface: Canadian Airports ArcGIS REST, client: 'Esri ArcGIS API for JavaScript / Python, GDAL/OGR (ESRIJSON driver), arcgis2geojson', note: 'De facto interface with a large existing client ecosystem.'}
  - {interface: Canadian Airports OGC WMS, client: 'OWSLib, GDAL/OGR (WMS driver), QGIS, MapServer, Leaflet/OpenLayers WMS layers', note: 'The payoff of implementing an actual open standard.'}
  - {interface: open.canada.ca CKAN Action API, client: 'ckanapi (PyPI), any HTTP client', note: 'Third-party CKAN clients work, but they are clients of Treasury Board Secretariat''s portal, not of Transport Canada.'}