OFAC SDN & Consolidated Sanctions Lists Scraper

Extract the complete US Treasury OFAC sanctions lists — the regulator-grade lists every US-touching bank, fintech, exporter, and supply-chain operator is legally obligated to screen against. This Actor pulls both the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list (~19,000 entries) and the Consolidated Sanctions List, joins each entity with its known aliases (AKAs), addresses, sanctions program(s), and vessel/aircraft metadata, then outputs clean structured JSON ready for AML / KYC / trade-compliance screening pipelines.

OFAC publishes the raw data as CSV exports with cryptic column codes and three separate files that must be joined by entity number. This Actor handles all of that for you and outputs one fully-enriched record per sanctioned person, entity, vessel, or aircraft.

Data fields

Field	Description
list	SDN or CONS (which list this entry came from)
entityNumber	OFAC entity reference number
name	Primary listed name
sdnType	individual, entity, vessel, or aircraft
program	Sanctions program code(s) — e.g. CUBA, IRAN, SDGT, RUSSIA-EO14024, UKRAINE-EO13662
title	Title or role
addresses	Array of associated addresses with city/state/postal and country
aliases	Array of known AKAs / FKAs / nicknames
countries	Distinct countries appearing in any associated address
callSign, vesselType, vesselFlag, vesselOwner, tonnage, grossRegisteredTonnage	Vessel-specific fields
remarks	Free-text notes — often includes DOB, POB, passport, tax ID, embargo notes
aliasCount, addressCount	Convenience counts for triage

How to scrape OFAC sanctions data

1. Choose list: both (default), SDN, or CONS.
2. (Optional) nameQuery — case-insensitive substring match against the primary name AND every alias.
3. (Optional) programFilter — e.g. RUSSIA-EO14024 or CUBA.
4. (Optional) typeFilter — individual, entity, vessel, aircraft.
5. (Optional) countryFilter — any country appearing in any of the entity's addresses.
6. Set maxResults to 0 for unlimited.
7. Click Start.

Pricing

Pay-per-result: $0.003 per sanctioned entity record. A full SDN pull (~19,000 entities) is roughly $57. Targeted name/program/country queries typically return tens to hundreds of records.

Input example

{
  "list": "both",
  "programFilter": "RUSSIA-EO14024",
  "typeFilter": "entity"
}

Output example

{
  "list": "SDN",
  "entityNumber": "36",
  "name": "AEROCARIBBEAN AIRLINES",
  "sdnType": "entity",
  "program": "CUBA",
  "title": "",
  "addresses": [{ "address": "25", "cityStatePostal": "Havana", "country": "Cuba" }],
  "aliases": [{ "type": "aka", "name": "AERO-CARIBBEAN" }],
  "countries": ["Cuba"],
  "aliasCount": 1,
  "addressCount": 1
}

Use cases

• Bank / fintech onboarding: integrate as a daily refreshed dataset feeding name-screening.
• Trade compliance: check counterparties before shipping ITAR / EAR-controlled goods.
• AML / KYC: enrich customer due-diligence workflows with primary-source sanctions data.
• Investigative journalism / sanctions research: explore the network of designated entities by program (Russia EO 14024, Iran, North Korea, etc.).
• Trade-finance LC review: screen vessels, aircraft, and corporate counterparties.

FAQ

How fresh is the data? OFAC updates the lists multiple times per week. Every run fetches live data — no caching.

Is fuzzy matching included? This Actor returns the raw enriched lists. Fuzzy matching is best done downstream against a known full set; this Actor's job is to deliver that full set in clean JSON.

Does it cover SSI / Non-SDN Chinese Military Industrial Complex / 13959? These appear on the Consolidated Sanctions List (CONS). Set list: "both".

Legal

Data sourced from US Department of Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) — a US Government public dataset. No authentication bypass; respects upstream rate limits. Sanctions screening is a regulated activity — this Actor delivers raw primary-source data; compliance decisions remain your responsibility.