CPSC Product Recalls Scraper

Buyer question: Which recent toy recall should your catalog, marketplace, or product-safety team review first?

Try a live sample

Open the one-recall toy Task to inspect one official CPSC recall for a maximum Actor charge of $0.003 before scaling.

Extract official U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recalls for product safety monitoring, ecommerce compliance, marketplace trust and safety, retail risk, and brand research.

Fastest way to try it

Run the prefilled toy search to receive one recall from 2026 through today. Each row includes the recall date, product, hazard, remedy, manufacturers, retailers, and official CPSC URL. Leave the end date empty to keep the search current automatically, then raise maxResults only after checking the first row.

What You Can Extract

• Recall ID, recall number, date, title, description, and URL
• Product names, hazards, remedies, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers
• Consumer contact information published by CPSC
• Raw official recall payload for auditability

Output

Every recall is written to the default Apify dataset as a structured row. Typical fields include recallId, recallNumber, recallDate, title, description, productNames, hazards, remedies, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, consumerContact, url, sourceUrl, scrapedAt, and the raw official payload. Export rows to CSV/JSON, compliance dashboards, catalog-risk queues, or product-safety alerting workflows.

Common Use Cases

• Monitor recalls for ecommerce catalogs and marketplaces
• Track product safety issues by keyword, brand, category, or date range
• Build retail compliance dashboards
• Feed recall intelligence into risk workflows or AI agents

SEO Keywords

CPSC recalls scraper, product recalls API, consumer product safety recall data, ecommerce product safety scraper, toy recall monitor, product compliance data.

Example Input

{
  "productNames": ["toy"],
  "startDate": "2026-01-01",
  "endDate": "",
  "maxResults": 1
}

Pricing

This actor charges $0.003 per recall row, or $3 per 1,000 rows. The one-row starter Task costs at most $0.003 in Actor charges; Apify platform usage is separate.

Responsible Use

This actor extracts public CPSC recall records. Verify high-risk product, legal, insurance, or takedown decisions against the official CPSC recall page. Use the data for product-safety monitoring and compliance workflows, not for misleading claims about brands or sellers.

Reliability and billing

The Actor reads the official CPSC Recalls API first. When that service is temporarily unavailable, it falls back to CPSC's official weekly recall CSV and keeps the same recall-row output contract. CSV fallback rows can omit the individual recall URL and consumer-contact field because those values are not present in the official download.

Only saved recall rows are billable. Empty searches, source failures, retries, duplicate rows, and the RUN_SUMMARY diagnostic record are never billed. Both official sources use bounded retries. If the API and weekly CSV are simultaneously unavailable, the Actor exits successfully with RUN_SUMMARY.status=SOURCE_UNAVAILABLE, zero result rows, and zero result charges. RUN_SUMMARY records the source used, source error types, requested limit, and fetched, saved, and billable row counts.

Automation Ideas

Schedule keyword, brand, or category monitors for marketplace trust and safety, retail compliance, and catalog QA. AI agents can classify hazards, match recalled products to catalog SKUs, summarize recall remedies, and route urgent product-safety items for human review.