Which lists are covered?

The US OFAC SDN and Consolidated non-SDN lists, the UN Security Council Consolidated List, the EU consolidated financial sanctions list and the UK OFSI consolidated list, plus a politically-exposed-persons register built from Wikidata public-office holders. Every response names the list versions it was screened against.

How does the fuzzy matching work?

Names are matched the way listed names actually vary: transliteration such as Usama and Osama, diacritics, swapped word order and known aliases. Each hit carries a score so you can set your own threshold between false positives and missed matches.

How fresh are the lists?

Every list is downloaded from its official publisher and replaced wholesale every day, and the version identifiers of each list are returned with every screening result.

Can I screen many names at once?

Yes. The batch endpoint screens a list of names in one request, which is how nightly re-screening of an existing customer base is normally done.

Is this enough for a regulated compliance programme?

The data is the same official lists that enterprise vendors resell, and the response includes everything an auditor asks for: which lists, which versions, which match and why. Your matching threshold and review process remain your decision.

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Sanctions Screening API

Screen names against OFAC, UN, EU and UK sanctions lists plus PEPs, with fuzzy matching

Screen any name — person, company, vessel or aircraft — against the five major official sanctions lists and a politically-exposed-persons register, with fuzzy matching built for how listed names actually vary: transliteration (Usama/Osama, Khalid/Qalid), diacritics, swapped word order and aliases. Coverage: the US OFAC SDN and Consolidated non-SDN lists, the UN Security Council Consolidated List, the UK OFSI Consolidated List and the EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions List — refreshed wholesale every day so delistings disappear as reliably as new designations appear — plus tens of thousands of PEPs (heads of state and government, ministers) mined from Wikidata under CC0. Matching is two-stage: an indexed phonetic-skeleton candidate search over every listed alias, then Jaro-Winkler and token-set scoring, recall-first, with each match returning its score, which alias matched and the source's own strong/weak alias grading. Every response includes screened_against — the exact list versions the query ran against — because a hit or a clean result is only defensible with the versions attached. Screen one name or 25 in a batch, browse entities by list, programme or country, and pull any entity's full record with every known alias. Self-hosted dataset built from free official sources — no third-party calls at request time.

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response.json

{
  "query": "Sadam Husein al Tikriti",
  "hit": true,
  "matches": [
    {
      "score": 0.981,
      "match_type": "strong",
      "matched_name": "SADDAM HUSSEIN AL-TIKRITI",
      "entity": {
        "source": "UN",
        "entity_type": "individual",
        "name": "SADDAM HUSSEIN AL-TIKRITI",
        "programs": [
          "Iraq"
        ]
      }
    }
  ],
  "screened_against": [
    {
      "slug": "ofac-sdn",
      "publish_date": "08/26/2026"
    },
    {
      "slug": "un",
      "publish_date": "2026-08-27"
    }
  ]
}

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Use cases for Sanctions Screening API

Screen every new customer at onboarding against the five official sanctions lists and the PEP register, and store the returned list versions as your audit trail.
Re-screen your whole customer base nightly with the batch endpoint and alert compliance only on new hits.
Check counterparties, vessels and aircraft in a payments, shipping or trade-finance workflow before a transaction clears.
Add a sanctions check to a marketplace or crypto exchange signup flow without licensing an enterprise screening suite.

Sanctions Screening API endpoints

Every endpoint with its parameters and a real example response.

GETBrowse Entities
GETEntity Programs
GETGet Entity
GETScreen Name
POSTScreen Names Batch
GETSource Lists

GETBrowse Entities

https://api-sanctions.dataandapis.com/v1/entities

Query parameters

Parameter	Example
country	Iraq	Optional
limit	20	Optional
list	sanction	Optional
page	1	Optional
program	Iraq	Optional
q	hussein	Optional
source	UN	Optional
type	individual	Optional

Example request

curl "https://api-sanctions.dataandapis.com/v1/entities?country=Iraq&limit=20&list=sanction&page=1&program=Iraq&q=hussein&source=UN&type=individual" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Example response

{
  "total": 159,
  "page": 1,
  "limit": 2,
  "count": 2,
  "results": [
    {
      "id": 2001,
      "list_type": "sanction",
      "source": "OFAC-SDN",
      "source_ref": "12891",
      "entity_type": "individual",
      "name": "Abbas Hussein HARB",
      "programs": [
        "SDNTK"
      ],
      "countries": [
        "Colombia",
        "Venezuela"
      ],
      "birth_dates": [
        "11 Nov 1979"
      ],
      "positions": [],
      "pep_current": null,
      "listed_on": null
    },
    {
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{
  "total": 159,
  "page": 1,
  "limit": 2,
  "count": 2,
  "results": [
    {
      "id": 2001,
      "list_type": "sanction",
      "source": "OFAC-SDN",
      "source_ref": "12891",
      "entity_type": "individual",
      "name": "Abbas Hussein HARB",
      "programs": [
        "SDNTK"
      ],
      "countries": [
        "Colombia",
        "Venezuela"
      ],
      "birth_dates": [
        "11 Nov 1979"
      ],
      "positions": [],
      "pep_current": null,
      "listed_on": null
    },
    {
      "id": 33324,
      "list_type": "pep",
      "source": "WIKIDATA",
      "source_ref": "Q4664751",
      "entity_type": "individual",
      "name": "Abdel Hussein Shandal",
      "programs": [
        "Minister of Justice"
      ],
      "countries": [
        "Iraq"
      ],
      "birth_dates": [],
      "positions": [
        {
          "position": "Minister of Justice",
          "country": "Iraq",
          "start": "2005-05-03",
          "end": "2006-05-20"
        }
      ],
      "pep_current": false,
      "listed_on": "2026-08-27"
    }
  ]
}

GETEntity Programs

https://api-sanctions.dataandapis.com/v1/entities/programs

Query parameters

Parameter	Example
list	sanction	Optional
source	UK-OFSI	Optional

Example request

curl "https://api-sanctions.dataandapis.com/v1/entities/programs?list=sanction&source=UK-OFSI" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Example response

{
  "count": 14,
  "programs": [
    {
      "program": "Al-Qaida",
      "source": "UN",
      "count": 336
    },
    {
      "program": "DPRK",
      "source": "UN",
      "count": 155
    },
    {
      "program": "Taliban",
      "source": "UN",
      "count": 140
    },
    {
      "program": "Iran",
      "source": "UN",
      "count": 121
    },
    {
      "program": "Iraq",
      "source": "UN",
      "count": 75
    },
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{
  "count": 14,
  "programs": [
    {
      "program": "Al-Qaida",
      "source": "UN",
      "count": 336
    },
    {
      "program": "DPRK",
      "source": "UN",
      "count": 155
    },
    {
      "program": "Taliban",
      "source": "UN",
      "count": 140
    },
    {
      "program": "Iran",
      "source": "UN",
      "count": 121
    },
    {
      "program": "Iraq",
      "source": "UN",
      "count": 75
    },
    {
      "program": "DRC",
      "source": "UN",
      "count": 61
    }
  ]
}

GETGet Entity

https://api-sanctions.dataandapis.com/v1/entities/{id}

Path parameters

Parameter	Example
id	655	Required

Example request

curl "https://api-sanctions.dataandapis.com/v1/entities/655" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Example response

{
  "id": 655,
  "list_type": "sanction",
  "source": "OFAC-SDN",
  "source_ref": "8187",
  "entity_type": "individual",
  "name": "Ali Saddam Hussein AL-TIKRITI",
  "programs": [
    "IRAQ2"
  ],
  "countries": [],
  "birth_dates": [
    "1980",
    "1983"
  ],
  "positions": [],
  "pep_current": null,
  "listed_on": null,
  "remarks": "son of Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti",
  "payload": {},
  "names": [
    {
      "name": "Ali Saddam Hussein AL-TIKRITI",
      "kind": "primary",
      "quality": "strong"
    },
    {
      "name": "HASSAN",
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{
  "id": 655,
  "list_type": "sanction",
  "source": "OFAC-SDN",
  "source_ref": "8187",
  "entity_type": "individual",
  "name": "Ali Saddam Hussein AL-TIKRITI",
  "programs": [
    "IRAQ2"
  ],
  "countries": [],
  "birth_dates": [
    "1980",
    "1983"
  ],
  "positions": [],
  "pep_current": null,
  "listed_on": null,
  "remarks": "son of Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti",
  "payload": {},
  "names": [
    {
      "name": "Ali Saddam Hussein AL-TIKRITI",
      "kind": "primary",
      "quality": "strong"
    },
    {
      "name": "HASSAN",
      "kind": "alias",
      "quality": "weak"
    }
  ]
}

GETScreen Name

https://api-sanctions.dataandapis.com/v1/screen

Query parameters

Parameter	Example
country	Iraq	Optional
limit	10	Optional
list	sanction	Optional
min_score	0.75	Optional
name	Osama bin Laden	Required
source	OFAC-SDN	Optional
type	individual	Optional

Example request

curl "https://api-sanctions.dataandapis.com/v1/screen?country=Iraq&limit=10&list=sanction&min_score=0.75&name=Osama%20bin%20Laden&source=OFAC-SDN&type=individual" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Example response

{
  "query": "Sadam Husein al Tikriti",
  "normalized": "sadam husein al tikriti",
  "min_score": 0.75,
  "hit": true,
  "count": 2,
  "matches": [
    {
      "score": 0.95,
      "matched_name": "Saddam Hussein AL-TIKRITI",
      "matched_name_kind": "primary",
      "matched_name_quality": "strong",
      "match_type": "strong",
      "entity": {
        "id": 504,
        "list_type": "sanction",
        "source": "OFAC-SDN",
        "source_ref": "7843",
        "entity_type": "individual",
        "name": "Saddam Hussein AL-TIKRITI",
        "programs": [
          "IRAQ2"
        ],
        "countries": [],
        "birth_dates": [
          "28 Apr 1937"
        ],
        "positions": [],
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{
  "query": "Sadam Husein al Tikriti",
  "normalized": "sadam husein al tikriti",
  "min_score": 0.75,
  "hit": true,
  "count": 2,
  "matches": [
    {
      "score": 0.95,
      "matched_name": "Saddam Hussein AL-TIKRITI",
      "matched_name_kind": "primary",
      "matched_name_quality": "strong",
      "match_type": "strong",
      "entity": {
        "id": 504,
        "list_type": "sanction",
        "source": "OFAC-SDN",
        "source_ref": "7843",
        "entity_type": "individual",
        "name": "Saddam Hussein AL-TIKRITI",
        "programs": [
          "IRAQ2"
        ],
        "countries": [],
        "birth_dates": [
          "28 Apr 1937"
        ],
        "positions": [],
        "pep_current": null,
        "listed_on": null
      }
    },
    {
      "score": 0.95,
      "matched_name": "Qusay Saddam Hussein AL-TIKRITI",
      "matched_name_kind": "primary",
      "matched_name_quality": "strong",
      "match_type": "strong",
      "entity": {
        "id": 505,
        "list_type": "sanction",
        "source": "OFAC-SDN",
        "source_ref": "7844",
        "entity_type": "individual",
        "name": "Qusay Saddam Hussein AL-TIKRITI",
        "programs": [
          "IRAQ2"
        ],
        "countries": [],
        "birth_dates": [
          "1965",
          "1966"
        ],
        "positions": [],
        "pep_current": null,
        "listed_on": null
      }
    }
  ],
  "screened_against": [
    {
      "slug": "eu-fsf",
      "publish_date": "2026-08-05",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-08-28",
      "entity_count": 6234
    },
    {
      "slug": "ofac-cons",
      "publish_date": "07/27/2026",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-08-28",
      "entity_count": 481
    },
    {
      "slug": "ofac-sdn",
      "publish_date": "08/26/2026",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-08-28",
      "entity_count": 19319
    }
  ]
}

POSTScreen Names Batch

https://api-sanctions.dataandapis.com/v1/screen

This endpoint takes no parameters.

Example request

curl -X POST "https://api-sanctions.dataandapis.com/v1/screen" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{}'

Example response

{
  "count": 2,
  "hits": 2,
  "min_score": 0.75,
  "results": [
    {
      "query": "Usama bin Ladin",
      "normalized": "usama bin ladin",
      "hit": true,
      "count": 1,
      "matches": [
        {
          "score": 1,
          "matched_name": "Usama bin Muhammad bin Awad BIN LADIN",
          "matched_name_kind": "primary",
          "matched_name_quality": "strong",
          "match_type": "exact",
          "entity": {
            "id": 102,
            "list_type": "sanction",
            "source": "OFAC-SDN",
            "source_ref": "6365",
            "entity_type": "individual",
            "name": "Usama bin Muhammad bin Awad BIN LADIN",
            "programs": [
              "SDGT"
            ],
            "countries": [],
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{
  "count": 2,
  "hits": 2,
  "min_score": 0.75,
  "results": [
    {
      "query": "Usama bin Ladin",
      "normalized": "usama bin ladin",
      "hit": true,
      "count": 1,
      "matches": [
        {
          "score": 1,
          "matched_name": "Usama bin Muhammad bin Awad BIN LADIN",
          "matched_name_kind": "primary",
          "matched_name_quality": "strong",
          "match_type": "exact",
          "entity": {
            "id": 102,
            "list_type": "sanction",
            "source": "OFAC-SDN",
            "source_ref": "6365",
            "entity_type": "individual",
            "name": "Usama bin Muhammad bin Awad BIN LADIN",
            "programs": [
              "SDGT"
            ],
            "countries": [],
            "birth_dates": [
              "1958",
              "30 Jul 1957"
            ],
            "positions": [],
            "pep_current": null,
            "listed_on": null
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "query": "Jane Cleanhit",
      "normalized": "jane cleanhit",
      "hit": true,
      "count": 1,
      "matches": [
        {
          "score": 0.8619,
          "matched_name": "Juan Costa Climent",
          "matched_name_kind": "primary",
          "matched_name_quality": "strong",
          "match_type": "fuzzy",
          "entity": {
            "id": 63809,
            "list_type": "pep",
            "source": "WIKIDATA",
            "source_ref": "Q3187630",
            "entity_type": "individual",
            "name": "Juan Costa Climent",
            "programs": [
              "Minister of Science and Technology of Spain"
            ],
            "countries": [
              "Spain"
            ],
            "birth_dates": [
              "1965-04-10"
            ],
            "positions": [
              {
                "position": "Minister of Science and Technology of Spain",
                "country": "Spain",
                "start": "2003-09-04",
                "end": "2004-04-17"
              }
            ],
            "pep_current": false,
            "listed_on": "2026-08-27"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "screened_against": [
    {
      "slug": "eu-fsf",
      "publish_date": "2026-08-05",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-08-28",
      "entity_count": 6234
    },
    {
      "slug": "ofac-cons",
      "publish_date": "07/27/2026",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-08-28",
      "entity_count": 481
    }
  ]
}

GETSource Lists

https://api-sanctions.dataandapis.com/v1/lists

This endpoint takes no parameters.

Example request

curl "https://api-sanctions.dataandapis.com/v1/lists" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Example response

{
  "count": 6,
  "lists": [
    {
      "slug": "eu-fsf",
      "name": "EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions List",
      "publisher": "European Commission (FISMA)",
      "licence": "EU public data, reuse permitted with source acknowledgement",
      "source_url": "https://data.europa.eu/data/datasets/consolidated-list-of-persons-groups-and-entities-subject-to-eu-financial-sanctions",
      "file_url": "https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/fsd/fsf/public/files/xmlFullSanctionsList_1_1/content?token=dG9rZW4tMjAxNw",
      "cadence": "updated as regulations amend",
      "entity_count": 6234,
      "name_count": 30463,
      "publish_date": "2026-08-05",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-08-28",
      "updated_at": "2026-08-28 04:18:44"
    },
    {
      "slug": "ofac-cons",
      "name": "OFAC Consolidated (non-SDN) List",
      "publisher": "US Department of the Treasury, OFAC",
      "licence": "US Government work - no copyright",
      "source_url": "https://ofac.treasury.gov/consolidated-sanctions-list-non-sdn-lists",
      "file_url": "https://sanctionslistservice.ofac.treas.gov/api/download/consolidated.xml",
      "cadence": "updated as designations change",
      "entity_count": 481,
      "name_count": 1663,
      "publish_date": "07/27/2026",
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{
  "count": 6,
  "lists": [
    {
      "slug": "eu-fsf",
      "name": "EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions List",
      "publisher": "European Commission (FISMA)",
      "licence": "EU public data, reuse permitted with source acknowledgement",
      "source_url": "https://data.europa.eu/data/datasets/consolidated-list-of-persons-groups-and-entities-subject-to-eu-financial-sanctions",
      "file_url": "https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/fsd/fsf/public/files/xmlFullSanctionsList_1_1/content?token=dG9rZW4tMjAxNw",
      "cadence": "updated as regulations amend",
      "entity_count": 6234,
      "name_count": 30463,
      "publish_date": "2026-08-05",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-08-28",
      "updated_at": "2026-08-28 04:18:44"
    },
    {
      "slug": "ofac-cons",
      "name": "OFAC Consolidated (non-SDN) List",
      "publisher": "US Department of the Treasury, OFAC",
      "licence": "US Government work - no copyright",
      "source_url": "https://ofac.treasury.gov/consolidated-sanctions-list-non-sdn-lists",
      "file_url": "https://sanctionslistservice.ofac.treas.gov/api/download/consolidated.xml",
      "cadence": "updated as designations change",
      "entity_count": 481,
      "name_count": 1663,
      "publish_date": "07/27/2026",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-08-28",
      "updated_at": "2026-08-28 04:18:44"
    },
    {
      "slug": "ofac-sdn",
      "name": "OFAC Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List",
      "publisher": "US Department of the Treasury, OFAC",
      "licence": "US Government work - no copyright",
      "source_url": "https://ofac.treasury.gov/sanctions-lists",
      "file_url": "https://sanctionslistservice.ofac.treas.gov/api/download/sdn.xml",
      "cadence": "updated as designations change (near-daily)",
      "entity_count": 19319,
      "name_count": 43715,
      "publish_date": "08/26/2026",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-08-28",
      "updated_at": "2026-08-28 04:18:44"
    },
    {
      "slug": "uk-ofsi",
      "name": "UK OFSI Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets",
      "publisher": "HM Treasury, Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation",
      "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
      "source_url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/financial-sanctions-consolidated-list-of-targets",
      "file_url": "https://ofsistorage.blob.core.windows.net/publishlive/2022format/ConList.xml",
      "cadence": "updated as designations change",
      "entity_count": 5135,
      "name_count": 13684,
      "publish_date": null,
      "retrieved_at": "2026-08-28",
      "updated_at": "2026-08-28 04:18:44"
    },
    {
      "slug": "un",
      "name": "UN Security Council Consolidated List",
      "publisher": "United Nations Security Council",
      "licence": "Published by the UN for public use",
      "source_url": "https://main.un.org/securitycouncil/en/content/un-sc-consolidated-list",
      "file_url": "https://scsanctions.un.org/resources/xml/en/consolidated.xml",
      "cadence": "updated as committees decide",
      "entity_count": 1011,
      "name_count": 3733,
      "publish_date": "2026-08-27",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-08-28",
      "updated_at": "2026-08-28 04:18:44"
    },
    {
      "slug": "wikidata-pep",
      "name": "Politically Exposed Persons (heads of state/government, ministers)",
      "publisher": "Wikidata contributors",
      "licence": "CC0 1.0 (public domain)",
      "source_url": "https://www.wikidata.org/",
      "file_url": "https://query.wikidata.org/sparql",
      "cadence": "re-mined on demand (monthly recommended)",
      "entity_count": 34861,
      "name_count": 54539,
      "publish_date": "2026-08-28",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-08-28",
      "updated_at": "2026-08-28 04:18:44"
    }
  ]
}

Where the data comes from

Source: Official publications of the US Treasury OFAC, the UN Security Council, the European Union and the UK OFSI, plus a PEP register derived from Wikidata public-office data. All sources are free and commercially usable.
Freshness: Every list replaced wholesale daily from its official source. Each response carries the list versions it was screened against.

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import axios from 'axios';

const { data } = await axios.get(
  'https://api-sanctions.dataandapis.com/v1/entities',
  { headers: { 'X-Api-Key': process.env.API_KEY } }
);

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Available Endpoints

Request Parameters

API URL

Headers

X-Api-Key

Query Parameters

country(Optional)

limit(Optional)

list(Optional)

page(Optional)

program(Optional)

q(Optional)

source(Optional)

type(Optional)

Target:

Client:

import axios from 'axios';

const url = 'https://api-sanctions.dataandapis.com/v1/entities';
const { data } = await axios.get(url, {
  headers: { 'X-Api-Key': 'YOUR_API_KEY' }
});