Data Sources · Where Fridge.com Gets Its Information

Verified Data Sources Powering Fridge.com

Sources

Keepa: Amazon NEW-condition price history (6+ years), ASIN universe enumeration, and Best Sellers Rank trends. Feed: Keepa Product API + Best Sellers API (paid plan, 60 tokens/min, 86,400 tokens/day). Cadence: Nightly into Supabase; never fetched live during page render. Powers: Price-history charts on product pages, the long-tail discovery of the appliance universe, and Tier-A/S category rankings.
SearchAPI (Google Shopping): Cross-retailer current pricing per product, sourced from Google Shopping. Feed: SearchAPI Google Shopping engine via REST (paid plan, ToS-compliant collection with $2M legal protection). Cadence: Weekly for Tier S and Tier A products; monthly for the long tail. Powers: The cross-retailer pricing widget on every product page — lowest current NEW-condition price plus tier-1 retailers (Amazon, Home Depot, Best Buy, Lowe’s, Walmart, AJ Madison) ranked first.
Firecrawl: Stealth-proxied scraping of retailer and manufacturer sites for review text and document discovery. Feed: Firecrawl /scrape and /crawl REST endpoints (paid plan, 100K credits/month with auto-recharge). Cadence: Weekly to monthly per FIN, tiered by product traffic. Powers: Customer-review text aggregation from Home Depot, Lowe’s, AJ Madison, and manufacturer sites; manufacturer PDF discovery (spec sheets, owner’s manuals, energy guides).
CPSC.gov: U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission federal recall data. Feed: CPSC public REST API (saferproducts.gov), free and unauthenticated. Cadence: Daily sweeps across every tracked product. Powers: The recall banner that appears above the customer-reviews section on any product page where an active recall exists, plus the recalls hub at /recalls and per-brand pages at /recalls/[brand].
EPA Energy Star: Lab-certified energy data — federal certification, not manufacturer self-reports. Feed: Energy Star Certified Products API (energystar.gov), free and public. Cadence: Quarterly refresh, with re-checks on every new product addition. Powers: The Energy Star badge on certified product pages; the kWh/year energy figures used in the energy-cost calculators; baseline efficiency claims on category and buying-guide pages.
EIA (U.S. Energy Information Administration): Federal electricity-rate data by state, used in cost-of-ownership calculations. Feed: EIA Open Data API v2 (eia.gov/opendata), free with API key. Cadence: Monthly refresh of state-level residential electricity rates. Powers: Total cost-of-ownership calculations on Fridge.com location pages; the state and ZIP-code energy tools at /local; the rebate-and-rate context on the utility-rebate directory at /rebates.
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration): Federal climate data, used for refrigerator-sizing and placement recommendations by region. Feed: NOAA Climate Data Online (CDO) v2 API and NCEI normals, free with API token. Cadence: Annual refresh of 30-year climate normals; daily refresh of seasonal anomalies for the location pages. Powers: Sizing and placement recommendations on /local — for example, garage-rated refrigerator guidance in cold-winter ZIPs and humidity-aware ice-maker advice in Gulf Coast ZIPs.

Verified Data Sources Powering Fridge.com

Every claim, price, and recall on this site traces to a real source.

Fridge.com is built on top of paid commercial APIs, public federal datasets, and stealth-proxied web data — combined under a single canonical anchor, the FIN (Fridge.com Identification Number). For how that data flows together into the product pages you see, read our methodology.

Keepa

Amazon NEW-condition price history (6+ years), ASIN universe enumeration, and Best Sellers Rank trends.

Keepa is the canonical source of multi-year Amazon NEW-condition price history on Fridge.com. Per Rule 4 of the Product Intelligence Layer (everything renders from Supabase), Keepa data is pulled nightly and written into our database; the page you load is always served from Supabase, not from a live Keepa request. Keepa returns price and Best Sellers Rank histories — it does not return review text, only review counts.

URL: https://keepa.com
Feed used: Keepa Product API + Best Sellers API (paid plan, 60 tokens/min, 86,400 tokens/day).
Refresh cadence: Nightly into Supabase; never fetched live during page render.
Powers on Fridge.com: Price-history charts on product pages, the long-tail discovery of the appliance universe, and Tier-A/S category rankings.

SearchAPI (Google Shopping)

Cross-retailer current pricing per product, sourced from Google Shopping.

SearchAPI is a managed scraping backend with explicit ToS coverage and legal indemnification. Fridge.com runs Google Shopping queries per FIN to capture the full set of retailers carrying a given product, then stores the snapshot in Supabase. We do not call SearchAPI from page render — every visible price is read from a stored snapshot.

URL: https://www.searchapi.io
Feed used: SearchAPI Google Shopping engine via REST (paid plan, ToS-compliant collection with $2M legal protection).
Refresh cadence: Weekly for Tier S and Tier A products; monthly for the long tail.
Powers on Fridge.com: The cross-retailer pricing widget on every product page — lowest current NEW-condition price plus tier-1 retailers (Amazon, Home Depot, Best Buy, Lowe’s, Walmart, AJ Madison) ranked first.

Firecrawl

Stealth-proxied scraping of retailer and manufacturer sites for review text and document discovery.

Firecrawl complements Keepa and SearchAPI for the retailers and manufacturer pages that need browser-grade rendering and proxied access. Reviews captured via Firecrawl are stored verbatim with source-retailer attribution and verified-buyer flags where published. NEW-condition filtering happens at ingestion — reviews that explicitly reference a used, refurbished, or open-box unit are dropped before they hit the database.

URL: https://www.firecrawl.dev
Feed used: Firecrawl /scrape and /crawl REST endpoints (paid plan, 100K credits/month with auto-recharge).
Refresh cadence: Weekly to monthly per FIN, tiered by product traffic.
Powers on Fridge.com: Customer-review text aggregation from Home Depot, Lowe’s, AJ Madison, and manufacturer sites; manufacturer PDF discovery (spec sheets, owner’s manuals, energy guides).

CPSC.gov

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission federal recall data.

The CPSC is the federal agency responsible for consumer product safety in the United States. Its recall data is the authoritative source for refrigerator, freezer, and ice maker safety notices. Fridge.com matches every CPSC notice against tracked manufacturer models and surfaces matches as a recall banner that is impossible to miss. When a recall is active on a FIN, affiliate purchase CTAs on that page are visually de-emphasized.

URL: https://www.saferproducts.gov
Feed used: CPSC public REST API (saferproducts.gov), free and unauthenticated.
Refresh cadence: Daily sweeps across every tracked product.
Powers on Fridge.com: The recall banner that appears above the customer-reviews section on any product page where an active recall exists, plus the recalls hub at /recalls and per-brand pages at /recalls/[brand].

EPA Energy Star

Lab-certified energy data — federal certification, not manufacturer self-reports.

Energy Star certification is awarded after lab testing by an EPA-recognized laboratory — it is not a self-reported manufacturer claim. Fridge.com only shows an Energy Star badge on a product page when there is a current matching certification on file in the EPA dataset. If certification lapses or is withdrawn, the badge disappears at the next quarterly refresh.

URL: https://www.energystar.gov
Feed used: Energy Star Certified Products API (energystar.gov), free and public.
Refresh cadence: Quarterly refresh, with re-checks on every new product addition.
Powers on Fridge.com: The Energy Star badge on certified product pages; the kWh/year energy figures used in the energy-cost calculators; baseline efficiency claims on category and buying-guide pages.

EIA (U.S. Energy Information Administration)

Federal electricity-rate data by state, used in cost-of-ownership calculations.

The EIA is the statistical arm of the U.S. Department of Energy. We pull average residential electricity rates per state monthly and combine them with each refrigerator's Energy Star kWh/year figure to estimate annual operating cost honestly — the same way a utility company would.

URL: https://www.eia.gov
Feed used: EIA Open Data API v2 (eia.gov/opendata), free with API key.
Refresh cadence: Monthly refresh of state-level residential electricity rates.
Powers on Fridge.com: Total cost-of-ownership calculations on Fridge.com location pages; the state and ZIP-code energy tools at /local; the rebate-and-rate context on the utility-rebate directory at /rebates.

NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

Federal climate data, used for refrigerator-sizing and placement recommendations by region.

NOAA publishes the authoritative U.S. climate dataset. We use 30-year temperature and humidity normals to inform refrigerator sizing and placement guidance on the location pages — a garage-rated unit matters in International Falls, MN; ice-maker output rates matter in coastal Florida. Real climate data drives those recommendations.

URL: https://www.noaa.gov
Feed used: NOAA Climate Data Online (CDO) v2 API and NCEI normals, free with API token.
Refresh cadence: Annual refresh of 30-year climate normals; daily refresh of seasonal anomalies for the location pages.
Powers on Fridge.com: Sizing and placement recommendations on /local — for example, garage-rated refrigerator guidance in cold-winter ZIPs and humidity-aware ice-maker advice in Gulf Coast ZIPs.

A note on what is NOT a source

Fridge.com does not republish, paraphrase, or quote third-party editorial review sites. Customer reviews on Fridge.com are aggregated from the retailers that sell each FIN — Amazon, Home Depot, Best Buy, Lowe's, Walmart, AJ Madison, and the manufacturer's own site — with the source retailer named on every review. We do not generate reviews with AI and we do not paraphrase real reviews into different wording.

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Last updated 2026-05-08 · Part of the Fridge.com Product Intelligence Layer.