Browse Entities

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

Browse Entities is an endpoint of the Sanctions Screening API. Screen names against OFAC, UN, EU and UK sanctions lists plus PEPs, with fuzzy matching.

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Request

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

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"

Node.js

const res = await fetch("https://api-sanctions.dataandapis.com/v1/entities?country=Iraq&limit=20&list=sanction&page=1&program=Iraq&q=hussein&source=UN&type=individual", {
  headers: { "X-Api-Key": process.env.DATAANDAPIS_KEY },
});
const data = await res.json();

Python

import os, requests

r = requests.get(
    "https://api-sanctions.dataandapis.com/v1/entities?country=Iraq&limit=20&list=sanction&page=1&program=Iraq&q=hussein&source=UN&type=individual",
    headers={"X-Api-Key": os.environ["DATAANDAPIS_KEY"]},
)
data = r.json()

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
    },
    {
…

Show full 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
    },
    {
      "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"
    }
  ]
}

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