EU Sanctions List Scraper

Search the official EU consolidated list of persons, groups and entities subject to EU financial sanctions — the legally binding screening list maintained by the European Commission. No login, no cookies, no API key needed.

Why use this actor?

Every business operating in or with the EU is required to screen counterparties against the EU financial sanctions list. With the EU's new Anti-Money Laundering Regulation (AMLR) taking effect in July 2026, sanctions screening is moving from "nice to have" to a hard compliance obligation for banks, fintechs, payment providers, crypto platforms, law firms, and any company with KYB/KYC duties.

This actor turns the raw 25 MB government XML export into clean, structured JSON you can plug straight into your compliance workflow:

• KYB / KYC onboarding — screen new customers and suppliers by name
• AML transaction monitoring — batch-check counterparty lists
• Vendor due diligence — verify business partners aren't sanctioned
• Data enrichment — feed sanctions flags into your CRM or risk engine
• Research & journalism — track who is listed under which sanctions programme

The data comes directly from the European Commission's Financial Sanctions Database (FSD), the same source used by commercial screening tools that charge hundreds of euros per month.

How to scrape EU sanctions data

1. Open this actor on the Apify platform and click Try for free
2. Enter a Search Query — a person or company name (or part of it), e.g. Sberbank, Wagner, or bank. Use * to download the full list
3. Optionally filter by Entity Type (persons / entities) and Country (citizenship, birth, or address country)
4. Set Max Items and click Start
5. Download results as JSON, CSV, or Excel from the Dataset tab — or fetch them via the Apify API on a schedule

The actor downloads the latest official list on every run, so results always reflect the current legal state of EU sanctions. The list covers all EU sanctions programmes: Russia/Ukraine, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Belarus, terrorism (ISIL/Al-Qaida), human rights, cyber-attacks, chemical weapons, and more.

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
searchQuery	String	No	Name or alias to search for (case-insensitive, partial match). Also accepts an EU reference number. * returns the full list. Default: bank
entityType	String	No	all (default), person, or entity
country	String	No	ISO 2-letter code (RU, IR) or country name (Russia). Matches citizenship, birth country, or address
maxItems	Integer	No	Maximum records to return (default: 100, max: 10000)
proxyConfiguration	Object	No	Proxy settings. The EU endpoint is public — datacenter proxies are fine

Example input

{
    "searchQuery": "Sberbank",
    "entityType": "entity",
    "maxItems": 50
}

Output

Each result is one sanctioned person or entity:

Field	Type	Example
euReferenceNumber	String	"EU.4189.47"
entityName	String	"KOREA CHANGGWANG CREDIT BANK"
entityType	String	"entity" or "person"
aliases	Array	["Tanchon Commercial Bank"]
gender	String	"M" (persons only)
role	String	Function or position of the subject
birthDate	String	"1937-04-28" (persons only)
birthPlace	String	"Baghdad" (persons only)
birthCountry	String	"IRAQ" (persons only)
citizenships	Array	["RUSSIAN FEDERATION"] (persons only)
addresses	Array	Street, city, zip, country per address
identificationDocuments	Array	Passports, national IDs, registration numbers
programme	String	"PRK" (sanctions programme code)
regulationTitle	String	"2017/1509 (OJ L224)"
listingDate	String	"2017-08-31"
remarks	String	Free-text notes from the regulation
unitedNationId	String	UN reference if also UN-listed
url	String	Link to the legal act on EUR-Lex
sourceListDate	String	Generation date of the official list
scrapedAt	String	ISO timestamp of this run

Example output

{
    "euReferenceNumber": "EU.4189.47",
    "entityName": "KOREA CHANGGWANG CREDIT BANK",
    "entityType": "entity",
    "aliases": ["Tanchon Commercial Bank", "CHANGGWANG CREDIT BANK"],
    "gender": null,
    "role": "Main DPRK financial entity for sales of conventional arms and ballistic missiles.",
    "birthDate": null,
    "birthPlace": null,
    "birthCountry": null,
    "citizenships": [],
    "addresses": [
        {
            "street": "1 Saemul - Dong Pyongchon District",
            "city": "Pyongyang",
            "zipCode": null,
            "region": null,
            "country": "KOREA, DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF",
            "countryCode": "KP"
        }
    ],
    "identificationDocuments": [],
    "programme": "PRK",
    "regulationTitle": "2017/1509 (OJ L224)",
    "listingDate": "2017-08-31",
    "remarks": null,
    "unitedNationId": null,
    "url": "http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32017R1509&from=EN",
    "sourceListDate": "2026-06-05T15:51:25.849+02:00",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-06-11T12:11:52.885Z"
}

Sanctions programmes covered

The consolidated list currently contains ~6,000 records across 40+ programmes, including:

Code	Programme
UKR	Russia's war against Ukraine (largest programme, 2,700+ records)
IRN	Iran
SYR	Syria
BLR	Belarus
TAQA	ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida
PRK	North Korea
HR	Global Human Rights regime
CYB	Cyber-attacks
CHEM	Chemical weapons

Cost estimate

This is a lightweight API-based actor: one run downloads and parses the official list in under a minute, using roughly 0.02 compute units per run regardless of how many records you extract. A daily full-list refresh costs only a few cents per month in platform usage.

Limitations

• The actor reflects the EU consolidated list only — it does not include UN, OFAC (US), or UK (OFSI) lists
• The European Commission usually updates the list within a day of a new legal act; the actor always fetches the latest published version
• Name search is exact-substring based — for fuzzy matching (transliterations, typos), pull the full list with * and run your own matching logic
• Person-specific fields (birth date, citizenship) are empty for entities, and vice versa
• Data comes from the official public EU source; use in accordance with EU open-data terms

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Need this data on a schedule, or a custom version?

We run this scraper as a managed service for businesses: scheduled runs, deduplication, delta detection, and delivery to your inbox, Google Sheets, or API — maintenance included. We can also build a custom version with your exact fields and filters, or combine multiple sources into one feed.

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