🛡️ US Consolidated Screening List — Fuzzy Match & Delta Monitor

Screen counterparties and monitor restricted-party changes across the official U.S. Consolidated Screening List (CSL). One run covers active export and sanctions records consolidated by the Departments of Commerce, State, and Treasury — not only the OFAC SDN list.

🇺🇸 Broader than an OFAC-only exporter

The official CSL combines records from sources including:

• OFAC SDN and non-SDN sanctions lists;
• BIS Entity List, Denied Persons List, Unverified List, and Military End User List;
• State Department debarred and nonproliferation lists;
• additional federal export-control and restricted-party sources represented in the CSL.

🔎 Two workflows in one Actor

Name screening

Submit people, organizations, vessels, or company names. The Actor compares each input with official primary names and aliases using deterministic normalized similarity and returns the best matches above your threshold.

Each result includes the input name, matched primary name or alias, match location, score, source list, programs, countries, addresses, identifiers, remarks, and official reference URLs.

Snapshot and delta monitoring

Leave screeningNames empty to filter or export active CSL entries. Every entry receives a stable entityKey and SHA-256 fingerprint. Feed the prior run's key/fingerprint map back through previousFingerprints and enable deltaOnly to return only new or changed records.

⚙️ Filters and output

• country or ISO code;
• source list;
• sanctions program;
• entity type;
• free-text search across names, aliases, programs, source, and remarks;
• optional aliases, addresses, and official identifiers;
• strict result and charge limits.

The source metadata includes the official download URL, Last-Modified, ETag, source-list URLs, and collection timestamp for reproducible monitoring.

🚀 Common uses

• vendor, customer, payment, and counterparty screening workflows;
• export-control and trade-compliance research;
• procurement watchlists and scheduled list-change alerts;
• compliance data warehouses, dashboards, webhooks, n8n, Make, and AI agents.

Example screening input

{
  "screeningNames": ["Bank of Kunlun", "Example Trading Company"],
  "minimumMatchScore": 80,
  "countries": ["CN"],
  "maxItems": 100
}

Result-based billing

Snapshot/export rows and fuzzy screening matches use separate events. Filters and delta comparison run before dataset writes, so omitted and unchanged entries do not create result charges.

📥 Complete input reference

Field	Type	Default	Purpose
screeningNames	array	["Bank of Kunlun"]	People, companies, vessels or organizations to fuzzy-match against primary names and aliases. Leave empty for export/monitor mode.
minimumMatchScore	integer	75	Deterministic normalized bigram similarity threshold from 0 to 100.
query	string	""	Optional contains-filter across names, aliases, programs, source and remarks.
countries	array	[]	Country names or ISO codes found in official addresses.
sources	array	[]	Filter list names such as Entity List, SDN, Denied Persons, Unverified or MEU.
programs	array	[]	Filter OFAC or other program tags.
entityTypes	array	[]	Filter types such as Entity, Individual, Vessel or Aircraft.
maxItems	integer	1000	Strict cap across matches or exported entries.
deltaOnly	boolean	false	Compare current fingerprints with the supplied previous fingerprint map and omit unchanged records.
previousFingerprints	object	{}	Optional map of entityKey to fingerprint from a previous run for deterministic change detection.
includeAliases	boolean	true	Attach official alternate names to each result.
includeAddresses	boolean	true	Attach official structured addresses and countries.
includeIdentifiers	boolean	true	Attach passports, national IDs, SWIFT/BIC and other published identifiers.

📤 Complete output reference

The default dataset is exportable as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or RSS. Fields remain stable for scheduled runs and API integrations.

Field	Type
recordType	string
entityKey	string
fingerprint	string
changeType	string
entityId	string
entityNumber	string / null
primaryName	string / null
entityType	string / null
aliases	array
aliasCount	integer
addresses	array
addressCount	integer
countries	array
identifiers	array
identifierCount	integer
programs	array
remarks	string / null
sourceList	string / null
sourceInformationUrl	string / null
sourceListUrl	string / null
screeningInput	string / null
matchedName	string / null
matchedOn	string / null
matchScore	integer / null
sourceLastModified	string / null
sourceEtag	string / null
officialSourceUrl	string
scrapedAt	string

🔌 API & integrations

Run this Actor from the Apify Console, API, CLI, MCP, Make, Zapier or n8n. Replace the Actor identifier and token in this template:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/us-csl-fuzzy-screening-delta-monitor/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{}'

Results are stored in the run's default dataset and can be forwarded with Apify webhooks or scheduled Tasks.

🔎 Search keywords

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💰 Pricing

Billing is tied to successfully delivered result events. Empty, filtered, duplicate or failed records are not charged as results. Open the Pricing tab for the current per-event rate before starting a run, and use Apify's maximum-charge control to enforce a hard budget.