Access Hyundai Bluelink or Kia Connect vehicle data given that Hyundai/Kia do not publish an official public developer API
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Steps
Confirm there is no official self-serve Hyundai or Kia developer program for consumer connected-car data before building anything — integrations in this space are either OEM-partnered third parties or community reverse-engineering.
For a supported path, use a third party with an actual OEM data partnership — Smartcar and High Mobility both list Hyundai/Kia vehicle support — rather than building direct OEM integration from scratch.
If going the unofficial route, the community-maintained hyundai_kia_connect_api Python library (used by the Home Assistant integration) reimplements the Bluelink/UVO/Kia Connect mobile app's private endpoints — review its source and open issues for current login/session behavior before depending on it.
Authenticate using the same username/password flow the mobile app uses (this library logs in directly rather than using OAuth), and expect the login/session flow to differ by region (US vs. EU vs. Canada) since Hyundai/Kia run separate backend stacks per region.
Poll vehicle status rather than expecting webhooks/push, and rate-limit your own polling aggressively, since these are consumer mobile-app endpoints not designed for third-party API traffic.
Known gotchas
This is explicitly unofficial and unsupported by Hyundai/Kia — endpoints, auth flows, and rate limits can change without notice and have broken community libraries before.
Using account credentials directly (rather than a delegated OAuth token) means your integration holds the user's actual Bluelink/Kia Connect password, a meaningfully different trust/security model than an OAuth-based API like Smartcar.
Aggressive polling has reportedly triggered temporary account lockouts on these OEM backends; conservative polling intervals are a practical necessity, not just good practice.
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