Frontera Signal
Use to check what common building materials cost on the shelf in the Rio Grande Valley (McAllen, Mission, Edinburg): 2x4 and 2x6 studs, OSB, drywall, concrete mix, CMU block, rebar, shingles, underlayment, housewrap, insulation, paint, doors, deck screws. Dated prices at big box stores and a local yard, checked twice a week, for estimating or checking a bid. Not a quote. Example: "What does a sheet of 7/16 OSB cost in McAllen this week?"
Offering
- Provider
- fronterasignal.com
- Method
- GET
- Offering type
- Api Endpoint
- Transport type
- http
- Category
- Business And Commerce
- Delivery
- Not provided
- Pricing model
- Not provided
- x402 version
- 2
Endpoint context
- URL
https://fronterasignal.com/api/v1/materials- MIME type
- application/json
- First seen
- 2026-10-16T01:50:19.913Z
- Last seen
- Tags
- construction, real-estate, texas, rio-grande-valley, building-permits, materials, housing, spanish
Payment pricing
x402 payment terms are the authoritative price for calling this endpoint.
- Payment option 1
- 0.01 USDC
Atomic price: 10000 · Network: eip155:8453 · Asset: USDC · Scheme: exact
Raw x402 terms
[
{
"scheme": "exact",
"network": "eip155:8453",
"asset": "0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913",
"amount": "10000",
"payTo": "0x6B7a56B58c89631aB60E7153b6170677A1Af00be"
}
]Observed health
- Status
- Healthy
- Latest latency
- 290 ms
- Average latency
- 480 ms
- HTTP status
- 402
- Last checked
- Reachability
- 100% over 14 checks
Latency is measured to the first response headers. A reachable result does not verify response accuracy or merchant identity.
Input schema
{
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"properties": {
"type": {
"type": "string",
"const": "http"
},
"method": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"GET"
]
},
"queryParams": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"item": {
"type": "string",
"description": "An item key or a word from the item name, e.g. osb, rebar, drywall."
},
"store": {
"type": "string",
"description": "big box, local yard or a city (McAllen, Mission, Edinburg)."
}
}
}
},
"required": [
"type",
"method"
],
"additionalProperties": false
}Output schema
{
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"properties": {
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],
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},
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"type": "string"
},
"store": {
"description": "big box, local yard or a city (McAllen, Mission, Edinburg).",
"type": "string"
}
},
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
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"type": "string"
}
},
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],
"type": "object"
},
"output": {
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},
"count": {
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"latest": {
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"price_usd": {
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"product": {
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"source": {
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},
"store": {
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},
"unit": {
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}
},
"type": "object"
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"type": "array"
},
"note": {
"type": "string"
},
"publisher": {
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},
"query": {
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"store": {
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