🌍 World Wide Sanctions Scraper

World Wide Sanctions is a high-fidelity legal intelligence engine designed to track, sanitize, and synchronize international sanctions and enforcement data in real time from over 2500 sources.

The actor interfaces with a live global sanctions index, delivering continuously updated coverage of:

• Government designations
• Enforcement actions
• Legislative and regulatory changes
• Export controls
• Judicial guidance

It is purpose-built for compliance teams, investigators, fintech platforms, law firms, journalists, and risk intelligence providers who require speed, accuracy, and traceability.

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🚀 Quick Start

A demo output dataset can be viewed here:

https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/OAQ7WIsnY4eP0PCFb/items?format=json&clean=true

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📂 Core Capabilities

⏱️ Dynamic Timeframes

• Monitor the last X hours for breaking updates
• Pull data from the last 24, 48, or 72 hours
• Access the full historical index by setting the timeframe to 0

🌐 Targeted Intelligence Filtering

• Region-based filtering (e.g., Russia, Iran, China)
• Jurisdiction-based filtering (EU, UK, United States, United Nations)

⚖️ Legal Category Precision

Index only what matters:

• Designations
• Judgments
• Legislation
• Enforcement
• Export Controls
• Guidance

🔁 Automated Scraping the most important Information / Sanctions world-wide from over 2500 sources

• Continuously updated data stream
• Designed for large-scale, production use

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📥 Input Parameters

Field	Type	Description	Default
keyword	String	Search term applied to titles and content	"*"
tag	String	Legal category (Judgments, Enforcement, Guidance, etc.)	"Judgments"
region	String	Target country or region	null
jurisdiction	String	Issuing authority or governing body	null
timeframe_hours	Integer	Look-back period in hours (0 = full history)	24
max_items	Integer	Maximum records returned (0 = unlimited)	300

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▶️ How to Run

1️⃣ Via Apify Console (Manual)

1. Navigate to the Apify Store and search for World Wide Sanctions
2. Open the actor and go to the Input tab
3. Fill out the form:
   • Enter your keyword (* for all)
   • Select region and/or jurisdiction
   • Set the timeframe (hours) (e.g. 24)
4. Click Save & Start

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2️⃣ Via Apify API (Programmatic)

Trigger the scraper from your application or script.

Examples

Sync German Enforcement Records (Last 24 Hours)

Search UK Enforcement for “Terrorism” (Last 48 Hours)

{
  "keyword": "Terrorism",
  "tag": "Enforcement",
  "jurisdiction": "United Kingdom",
  "timeframe_hours": 48
}

Retrieve Russia-Related Enforcement (Last 12 Hours)

{
  "tag": "Enforcement",
  "region": "Russia",
  "timeframe_hours": 12
}

Retrieve German Court Rulings (all time)

{
  "tag": "Judgements",
  "region": "Germany"
}

Output Format (JSON)

{{
  "citation": "[2025] FCA 223",
  "content_type": "judgment",
  "lang": "en",
  "permalink": "https://decisions.fca-caf.ca/fca-caf/decisions/en/item/521740/index.do",
  "post_content": "",
  "post_date": 1765893805,
  "post_thumbnail": "",
  "post_title": "Makarov v canada [2025] fca 223",
  "related_jurisdictions": [
    "Canada"
  ],
  "related_post": "",
  "related_regions": [
    "Russia"
  ],
  "related_topics": [
    "Delisting"
  ],
  "sort_by_date": 1765272588,
  "tags": []
},
{
  "citation": "",
  "content_type": "post",
  "id": "51889",
  "lang": "en",
  "permalink": "",
  "post_content": "The united states authorities-china economic and security review commission (uscc) has published a report on china’s facilitation of restrictive measures and export control evasion. the uscc is a bipartisan commission created by congress in 2000 to monitor, investigate, and report to congress on the national security implications of the trade and economic relationship between the usa and china, and to provide recommendations, where appropriate, to congress for legislative and administrative action. the report says: china is undermining united states authorities foreign policy by facilitating restrictive measures and export control evasion on behalf of russia, iran, and north korea and there has been increased coordination between these countries to circumvent restrictive measures and export controls and transact outside of the dollar-based financial system. china conducts high volumes of trade with heavily sanctioned countries. it is said to provide safe harbour to sanctioned vessels; it is the largest supplier of dual-use technology to russia; and it has helped north korea to launder the proceeds of its sanctioned transnational cybercrime programme. china is the “decisive enabler of restrictive measures evasion” and has used restrictive measures evasion as a means of growing its influence over russia, iran and north korea. hong kong has emerged as a global restrictive measures evasion hub. china has become the “trading partner of choice for pariah countries”. china has established a network of financial institutions and other entities as well as payments and clearing systems that are outside the dollar financial system and are mostly insulated from the broader global financial system. china enables export control evasion both via direct sales of dual-use items and by allowing transshipment through its territory. in acting as a hub for a range of restrictive measures evasion activities, china is achieving economies of scale for firms that facilitate evasion. the report recommends to congress that the united states authorities should establish more coherent, unified, and aggressive responses to china’s role in restrictive measures and export control evasion. the uscc presented its annual report to congress in november 2025, which global restrictive measures summarised here.  ",
  "post_date": 1765884611,
  "post_thumbnail": "",
  "post_title": "United states authorities-china economic and security review commission report on china restrictive measures and export control evasion",
  "related_jurisdictions": [
    "United States"
  ],
  "related_post": "",
  "related_regions": [
    "China / PRC"
  ],
  "related_topics": [],
  "sort_by_date": 1765884611,
  "tags": [
    "Reports"
  ]
}
},
...