🇪🇺 EU Consolidated Sanctions List Scraper

🚀 Export the EU consolidated sanctions list (Council Regulations) in seconds - names, aliases, regulations, listing reasons.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-26 · 📊 11 fields per record · Public data from European Commission Financial Sanctions Database

The EU Consolidated Sanctions List Scraper turns the public European Commission Financial Sanctions Database data into a clean, structured dataset - directly to CSV, Excel, JSON, JSONL, XML, RSS, or HTML.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
📊 Data analysts	Bulk export and analysis
🏢 Business teams	Lead enrichment, market research
🤖 ML / AI teams	Build training datasets
📰 Journalists	Investigative data sourcing
🧑‍💻 Developers	Mirror upstream data into your DB
🎓 Researchers	Academic and policy research

📋 What this scraper does

• Connects to European Commission Financial Sanctions Database's public endpoint.
• Walks listings or detail pages, parsing structured data.
• Applies filters from the input schema before pushing rows.
• Caps free-tier runs at 10 items; paid users can go up to 1,000,000.
• Exports clean rows ready for CSV, Excel, JSON, XML, RSS, or HTML.

💡 Why it matters: European Commission Financial Sanctions Database doesn't ship a public bulk-export. This actor closes that gap - one click, one dataset, one schema.

🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon.

⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
entityType	enum	No	ALL, PERSON, ENTITY.
maxItems	integer	No	Free: 10. Paid: up to 1,000,000.

⚠️ Good to Know: Source coverage and field availability depend on what European Commission Financial Sanctions Database surfaces publicly at the time of the run. Some fields may be null for records where the source omits them.

📊 Output

Each record is a flat object. imageUrl is always first (when present), error is always last.

Field	Type	Description
🏷️ Entity Type entityType	string	-
🆔 Logical ID logicalId	string	-
👤 Name name	string	-
🔄 Aliases aliases	string	-
🎂 Birth Date birthDate	string	-
🏙️ Birth Place birthPlace	string	-
🌍 Nationality nationality	string	-
📜 Regulation regulation	string	-
📝 Reason listingReason	string	-
📅 Published publicationDate	string	-
🕒 Scraped At scrapedAt	string	-
❌ error	string	Set if upstream fetch failed for this record.

✨ Why choose this Actor

| ⚡ | One-click export - no API keys, no scraping code. | | 🧹 | Clean snake_case fields ready for BI tools. | | 📦 | Direct CSV / Excel / JSON / XML / RSS / HTML export. | | 🤝 | Free tier (10 items) for quick previews. | | 🔌 | Native Apify integrations: Make, Zapier, Slack, Google Sheets, BigQuery, Snowflake. | | 🛟 | Graceful error handling - bad rows surface as error records, not crashes. |

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Setup time	Maintained?	Clean schema?
Roll your own scraper	hours-days	you maintain it	manual
Generic web scrapers	minutes	no schema	no
This Actor	seconds	yes	yes

🚀 How to use

1. Click Try for free.
2. Adjust the input fields (or leave defaults).
3. Click Start and download your dataset.

💼 Business use cases

📊 Market research. Pull a bulk snapshot of European Commission Financial Sanctions Database's data for a region, category, or query.

🎯 Lead generation. Use the structured output to feed CRM enrichment or outbound prospecting.

🤖 Competitive intelligence. Track European Commission Financial Sanctions Database listings or records over time with scheduled runs.

📰 Newsroom workflows. Reporters can pull a structured dataset for investigative work in seconds.

🔌 Automating EU Consolidated Sanctions List Scraper

• Make / Zapier: trigger this actor on a schedule, push results to Airtable, Google Sheets, Slack.
• Cron schedule: native Apify scheduler - daily, weekly, monthly runs.
• Webhooks: get a POST to your endpoint when a run finishes.
• Pipe to BigQuery / Snowflake / Postgres: native Apify integrations.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

🎓 Academia. Build research corpora from European Commission Financial Sanctions Database's public data.

🧪 Personal projects. Mirror European Commission Financial Sanctions Database data into your own dashboard or app.

🤝 Non-profit / civic tech. Public-interest tooling on top of public data.

🧰 Prototyping. Spin up a data feed in seconds to test new ideas.

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

❓ Is this allowed? This actor only requests pages that European Commission Financial Sanctions Database serves publicly to any browser - no authentication, no paywall bypass. Users are responsible for complying with the source's terms.

❓ Do I need an API key? No. Public data only.

❓ How fast is it? Most runs finish within seconds to a few minutes depending on maxItems.

❓ Can I schedule runs? Yes - Apify ships a native cron scheduler.

❓ What formats can I download? CSV, Excel, JSON, JSONL, XML, RSS, HTML.

❓ Are fields ever null? Yes - when European Commission Financial Sanctions Database omits a value for that record. Required fields are populated whenever the source exposes them.

❓ How is the free tier limited? 10 items per run on free accounts.

❓ Will the schema change? Only additively - we add fields, never remove.

❓ How do I integrate? Use Apify webhooks, Make, Zapier, or the REST API.

❓ Where can I report a bug? Apify Console > Actor page > Issues tab.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Apify ships native integrations with Make, Zapier, Slack, Discord, Google Drive, Google Sheets, Gmail, Airbyte, Keboola, Telegram, GitHub, and any REST API or webhook endpoint.

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