🍁 Canada Sanctions List Scraper

🚀 Export the Canadian autonomous sanctions list in seconds. Pull every designated person and entity from the Global Affairs Canada SEMA consolidated list with country, schedule, listing date and aliases. Download as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-26 · 📊 9 fields per record · 3,000+ designations · Worldwide

The Canada Sanctions List Scraper parses the official Global Affairs Canada Special Economic Measures Act (SEMA) consolidated XML feed. Each record contains the designated country, individual or entity name, schedule and item number, date of listing and any published aliases. The dataset powers compliance screening, KYC workflows, sanctions adverse media checks and academic geopolitical research.

Coverage: every designation across the Belarus, Russia, Iran, Syria, North Korea, Myanmar, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Haiti and other SEMA regimes.

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Target Audience / Use Cases

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Compliance teams	Sanctions screening / KYC
Financial institutions	Transaction monitoring
Law firms	Designation status checks
Risk-intelligence vendors	Build sanctions databases
Researchers	Map sanctions regimes over time
Journalists	Investigate listed networks

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📋 What this scraper does

• Downloads the Canada SEMA consolidated XML feed
• Parses every designation record
• Filters by country or schedule
• Returns name, schedule, item number, date of listing, aliases
• Outputs JSON, CSV, Excel, XML

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💡 Why it matters: Canada updates its sanctions list frequently. Automating the export keeps screening systems current without manual downloads.

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🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon

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⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
maxItems	integer	No	10	Max records.
country	string	No		Country substring filter.
schedule	string	No		Schedule substring filter.

Example 1 - All Russia designations:

{ "country": "Russia", "maxItems": 1000 }

Example 2 - Belarus Schedule 1 Part 1:

{ "country": "Belarus", "schedule": "1, Part 1", "maxItems": 500 }

⚠️ Good to Know: Country values are bilingual (e.g. "Belarus / Bélarus"). Use substring matching.

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📊 Output

Sample:

{
    "title": "Khazalbek Bakhtibekovich Atabekov",
    "country": "Belarus / Bélarus",
    "lastName": "Atabekov",
    "givenName": "Khazalbek Bakhtibekovich",
    "schedule": "1, Part 1",
    "item": "1",
    "dateOfListing": "2020-09-28",
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.international.gc.ca/world-monde/international_relations-relations_internationales/sanctions/consolidated-consolide.aspx?lang=eng"
}

Key fields: title, country, lastName, givenName, entity, aliases, schedule, item, dateOfListing, sourceUrl, scrapedAt.

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✨ Why choose this Actor

• 🟢 Sourced directly from the official Global Affairs Canada SEMA XML
• 🟢 No registration, no API key
• 🟢 Filter by country or schedule
• 🟢 Up to 1,000,000 records per paid run

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Option	Free	Bulk export	Live
GAC HTML page	Yes	Tedious	Yes
Raw XML download	Yes	Yes	Yes
ParseForge Canada Sanctions Scraper	Yes	Yes	Live

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🚀 How to use

1. Create a free account w/ $5 credit
2. Open this actor
3. Set filters, click Start
4. Download CSV / Excel / JSON / XML
5. Schedule or integrate

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💼 Business use cases

Compliance screening

Refresh internal watchlists with the latest Canadian designations.

KYC workflows

Cross-reference customers and counterparties against Canada SEMA.

Risk intelligence

Build dossiers on designated individuals and entities.

Adverse media

Trigger alerts when new designations are added.

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🔌 Automating Canada Sanctions Scraper

Integrates with Make, Zapier, n8n, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub Actions, Google Drive.

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Research

Study sanctions regime evolution over time.

Personal

Verify a name appearing in news against the official list.

Non-profit

Human-rights monitoring and accountability.

Experimentation

Combine with EU, UK and US sanctions lists for global coverage.

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🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Source? Global Affairs Canada SEMA XML.

Q: API key? No.

Q: Real-time? Yes, the actor fetches the live XML on every run.

Q: Update frequency? GAC publishes updates whenever new designations are issued.

Q: Output formats? JSON, CSV, Excel, XML.

Q: Free preview? Yes, 10 records.

Q: Bulk size? Up to 1,000,000 paid.

Q: Coverage? All SEMA-listed regimes.

Q: Are entities included? Yes, both individuals and entities are exported.

Q: Includes aliases? Yes, when published.

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🔌 Integrate with any app

Webhooks, REST API, Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, Google Sheets, and more.

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💡 Pro Tip: browse the complete ParseForge collection.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with Global Affairs Canada or the Government of Canada. Only publicly available data from international.gc.ca is collected.