RecallLens – CPSC Product Recall Search

Description

RecallLens lets your visitors instantly check whether a product, brand, or item has been recalled by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) — right on your site.

Great for parenting blogs, deal sites, product-review sites, resellers, and safety-focused pages.

  • Add it anywhere with the [recall_lens] shortcode or the RecallLens – CPSC Product Recall Search Gutenberg block.
  • Visitors type a product, brand, or item; results show the recall title, date, hazard, remedy, and a link to the official CPSC notice.
  • Recall data is cached on your server for fast responses and to minimize external requests.
  • Clean, mobile-friendly, no configuration required.

Free vs Pro

  • Free: the complete recall-search widget — unlimited searches and results, shortcode + Gutenberg block, cached for speed. No feature limits.
  • Pro (optional): adds a CSV export of the search results. (More Pro features planned.) Pro is entirely optional — the free plugin is fully functional on its own.

External services

This plugin connects to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) public recall API to retrieve recall information.

  • Service: CPSC Recalls REST API — https://www.saferproducts.gov/RestWebServices/Recall
  • What is sent, and when: when a visitor performs a search (or when the server refreshes its hourly recall cache), the plugin requests recent recall records. Only the standard request is made; the visitor’s search terms are matched locally on your server against the cached list — your visitors’ search terms are not transmitted to CPSC.
  • This is a public U.S. government data service. CPSC terms: https://www.cpsc.gov/ , privacy: https://www.cpsc.gov/About-CPSC/Privacy-Policy

Blocks

This plugin provides 1 block.

  • RecallLens – CPSC Product Recall Search Add a product-recall search widget (official U.S. CPSC data) to any page or post.

Installation

  1. Upload the recall-lens-cpsc-search folder to /wp-content/plugins/, or install via the Plugins screen.
  2. Activate the plugin.
  3. Add the [recall_lens] shortcode to any post/page, or insert the RecallLens – CPSC Product Recall Search block.

FAQ

Where does the data come from?

The official U.S. CPSC recall database (saferproducts.gov). Absence of a result is not a guarantee a product is safe — always confirm at cpsc.gov.

Does it slow down my site?

No. The recall list is cached on your server (hourly) and searches are matched locally.

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Contributors & Developers

“RecallLens – CPSC Product Recall Search” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

Changelog

1.1.0

  • Renamed to RecallLens. Removed front-end attribution. All identifiers prefixed.

1.0.1

  • Free tier is now unlimited (no result paywall). Pro adds CSV export.

1.0.0

  • Initial release: shortcode + Gutenberg block, cached CPSC search, free/Pro tiers.