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Consumer Product Safety Commission

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is the federal agency responsible for protecting the public from unreasonable risks of injury or death associated with consumer products such as toys, household items, electronics, and furniture. CPSC publishes a public, unauthenticated Recalls Retrieval Web Service that exposes recall records (with products, hazards, manufacturers, retailers, distributors, importers, and remedies) in JSON or XML, plus the SaferProducts.gov OData service for incident-report data accessed by application key.

Consumer Product Safety Commission publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network: Recalls API. Tagged areas include Consumer Protection, Federal Government, Hazards, Open Data, and Product Safety.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

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42.9/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 22/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessFreemium
2 APIs
Consumer ProtectionFederal GovernmentHazardsOpen DataProduct SafetyRecalls

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Composite quality — 42.9/100 · developing
Contract Quality 14.2 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 12.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13
Governance 7.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.9 / 10
Agent readiness — 22/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

SaferProducts.gov OData API

OData web service exposing publicly published consumer product incident-report data submitted through SaferProducts.gov. Authenticated with a basic-auth header where the registe...

Consumer Product Safety Commission Recalls API

The Recalls API from Consumer Product Safety Commission — 1 operation(s) for recalls.

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

CPSC Recalls API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Consumer Product Safety Commission Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Consumer Product Safety Commission Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Consumer Product Safety Commission Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Consumer Product Safety Commission Context

0 classes · 3 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Consumer Product Safety Commission API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Consumer Product Safety Commission API Rules

7 rules · 3 errors 2 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 1

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

CPSC Recall

21 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Consumer Product Safety Commission Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Consumer Product Safety Commission Agentic Access

1 operation

1 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Programmers Guide
Programmers Guide
 JSONSchema
JSONSchema

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLD
JSONLD
 Spectral
Spectral

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy
 TermsOfService
TermsOfService

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website
Website

Other 4

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Recalls
Recalls
 Data
Data
 SaferProducts.gov
SaferProducts.gov
 Public Search
Public Search

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: consumer-product-safety-commission
name: Consumer Product Safety Commission
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/consumer-product-safety-commission/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Consumer Protection
- Federal Government
- Hazards
- Open Data
- Product Safety
- Recalls
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json-icons/apis-json.png
access: 3rd-Party
created: '2024-12-25'
modified: '2026-05-19'
position: Consumer
specificationVersion: '0.19'
kind: government
description: The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is the federal agency responsible for protecting the public
  from unreasonable risks of injury or death associated with consumer products such as toys, household items, electronics,
  and furniture. CPSC publishes a public, unauthenticated Recalls Retrieval Web Service that exposes recall records (with
  products, hazards, manufacturers, retailers, distributors, importers, and remedies) in JSON or XML, plus the SaferProducts.gov
  OData service for incident-report data accessed by application key.
apis:
- aid: consumer-product-safety-commission:saferproducts
  name: SaferProducts.gov OData API
  tags:
  - Incident Reports
  - OData
  - Open Data
  humanURL: https://www.saferproducts.gov/FAQs/FrequentlyAskedQuestions11
  baseURL: https://www.saferproducts.gov/WebApi/Cpsc.Cpsrms.Web.Api.svc
  properties:
  - url: https://www.saferproducts.gov/FAQs/FrequentlyAskedQuestions11
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://www.saferproducts.gov/WebApi/Cpsc.Cpsrms.Web.Api.svc/$metadata
    type: Reference
  description: OData web service exposing publicly published consumer product incident-report data submitted through SaferProducts.gov.
    Authenticated with a basic-auth header where the registered application key is sent as the username (no password).
- aid: consumer-product-safety-commission:consumer-product-safety-commission-recalls-api
  name: Consumer Product Safety Commission Recalls API
  description: The Recalls API from Consumer Product Safety Commission — 1 operation(s) for recalls.
  humanURL: https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/CPSC-Recalls-Application-Program-Interface-API-Information
  baseURL: https://www.saferproducts.gov/RestWebServices
  tags:
  - Recalls
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/consumer-product-safety-commission-recalls-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/CPSC-Recalls-Application-Program-Interface-API-Information
  - type: Reference
    url: https://cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/RecallRetrievalWebServicesProgrammersGuide20180917.pdf
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/consumer-product-safety-commission-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/consumer-product-safety-commission-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.cpsc.gov/
- type: Recalls
  url: https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls
- type: Data
  url: https://www.cpsc.gov/Data
- type: SaferProducts.gov
  url: https://www.saferproducts.gov/
- type: Public Search
  url: https://www.saferproducts.gov/PublicSearch
- type: Programmers Guide
  url: https://cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/RecallRetrievalWebServicesProgrammersGuide20180917.pdf
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/Privacy-and-Security-Statement
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/Privacy-and-Security-Statement
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/consumer-product-safety-commission-context.jsonld
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/cpsc-recall-schema.json
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/consumer-product-safety-commission-rules.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com