ChargeHub API

Name: ChargeHub API
Brand: ChargeHub API
Availability: InStock

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For Agents

Look up EV charging station locations, connector types, and user-contributed content across North American networks. Useful for trip-planning, fleet routing, and EV ownership agents.

Install Jentic One Beta

Connect the ChargeHub API to your agent

Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the ChargeHub API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.

Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.

Step 1: Jentic One Host machine

# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh

Step 2: Agent machine

# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh
jentic register       # connects your agent to your Jentic One instance

Jentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with ChargeHub API.

Check ChargeHub service health via GET /api/status before issuing larger queries

Search EV charging stations by geographic bounds with GET /api/poi to power map and list views

Filter points of interest by connector type, network operator, or charging speed parameters in the poi query

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Use Cases

Patterns agents use ChargeHub API for, with concrete tasks.

★ EV Trip Planner Charger Lookup

EV trip planning apps query GET /api/poi with a bounding box that follows the user's route to surface every available charger along the way, including connector type and charging speed. Pairing the response with the planner's own routing logic gives drivers a network-agnostic view of charging options without integrating with each operator individually.

GET /api/poi with a bounding box covering the planned route and filter the response to DC fast chargers

EV Navigation App

In-car and mobile EV navigation apps render a live charger layer by polling /api/poi for the visible map area and overlaying ChargeHub's connector and network metadata. The /api/user-content endpoint adds qualitative context - recent photos, broken-station reports, and check-ins - that helps drivers pick a charger that will actually work when they arrive.

GET /api/poi for the current map bounding box and GET /api/user-content for the top three results to render station cards

Fleet Routing and Operations

Commercial EV fleet operators feed ChargeHub data into routing engines so vehicles are dispatched with reliable charging waypoints. The /api/poi endpoint returns connector counts and network operator metadata, which feeds into route-cost calculations and SLA-aware scheduling. Status checks via /api/status keep the integration's health-check loop honest.

GET /api/poi for waypoint candidates near each delivery stop and select chargers with at least 2 available DC fast connectors

Conversational EV Assistant via Jentic

An EV-focused AI assistant given a question like 'where can I charge my CCS car near Lake Tahoe' can resolve the lookup through Jentic. It searches Jentic for the charger search operation, runs /api/poi for the relevant bounding box, and surfaces the best results - without holding the ChargeHub API key directly.

Search Jentic for 'find ev charging stations near a location', call /api/poi for the area, and return the top CCS results

Key Endpoints

3 endpoints — chargehub maintains one of the largest public databases of ev charging stations in north america, covering level 2 and dc fast chargers across all major networks.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/api/status

Check API service health

GET

/api/poi

Search EV charging stations by bounding box and filters

GET

/api/user-content

Retrieve user-contributed content for a charging station

GET

/api/status

Check API service health

GET

/api/poi

Search EV charging stations by bounding box and filters

GET

/api/user-content

Retrieve user-contributed content for a charging station

Why Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

Your ChargeHub api_key is stored once, encrypted, by your own Jentic One instance and appended to the request at execution time. It never enters the agent's prompt, logs, or context.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'find EV charging stations near a location', and Jentic returns the matching ChargeHub operation with its input schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing the reference docs.

Time to first call

FAQs

Specific to using ChargeHub API through Jentic.

What authentication does the ChargeHub API use?

ChargeHub uses an API key passed as the api_key query parameter on every request. Through Jentic, the key is held in your Jentic One instance and only attached server-side at execution, so it never appears in agent-visible URLs.

Can I search for EV chargers within a bounding box with the ChargeHub API?

Yes. GET /api/poi accepts geographic bounds and returns a list of charging stations with their network operator, connector types (CCS, CHAdeMO, J1772, NACS), and charging speeds. You can filter the response client-side to narrow by connector or network.

How do I retrieve user-contributed photos and notes for a charging station?

Call GET /api/user-content with the station identifier returned from /api/poi. The response includes community-uploaded photos, check-in notes, and reported issues that supplement the structured charger metadata.

What are the rate limits for the ChargeHub API?

ChargeHub does not publish a fixed public rate limit; usage is tied to the partner key issued at sign-up. Cache /api/poi responses by bounding box and rely on /api/status for periodic health checks rather than per-request probes.

How do I look up EV chargers near a location through Jentic?

Install jentic with pip install jentic, search for 'find ev charging stations', load the schema for GET /api/poi, and execute with the bounding box. Run Jentic One, the self-hosted execution layer, to issue an agent API key.

Does the ChargeHub API include charger pricing and live availability?

The /api/poi endpoint returns station metadata such as connector type, network operator, and charging speed. Live in-use status and per-network pricing are limited and depend on what the operator shares with ChargeHub; expect reliable static data and partial real-time signals.

Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the ChargeHub API?

Yes. Because you run Jentic One self-hosted, your own rules decide which ChargeHub operations the agent may call, so you can allow only charger discovery through GET /api/poi and deny the rest. The API is read-only and exposes just three operations (service status, points-of-interest lookup, and user-contributed content), with no session or payment operations to grant, so the agent can never initiate a charge or move money. Your api_key stays stored on your instance and is attached only at execution, never in the agent's prompt or context.