Sanctions Screening API

Screen a name against the official OFAC lists.

Screen a name against the official OFAC lists: the SDN list and the Consolidated non-SDN list, primary names plus every alias OFAC publishes. Matching is EXACT after case, accents, punctuation, and spacing fold away. Never fuzzy, never a confidence score. A match returns the official records verbatim: OFAC uid, list, type, and program codes. Junk answers sanctioned: false as a 200, never a 404. That counts as a normal request on every plan.

false means not on the list as published. It is not clearance, and list screening alone is not due diligence. OFAC says the same about its own search tool. We pull the lists from Treasury hourly, so a new designation is live within the hour. Spelled variants OFAC did not publish will not match.

Screen

GET

api.parseapi.com/sanctions/{name}

Exact match against the OFAC SDN and Consolidated lists

curl "https://api.parseapi.com/sanctions/HIZBALLAH" \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

{
  "name": "hizballah",
  "sanctioned": true,
  "matches": [
    {
      "id": 4697,
      "list": "sdn",
      "type": "entity",
      "name": "HIZBALLAH",
      "programs": [
        "FTO",
        "SDGT",
        "IFSR",
        "IRGC"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

curl "https://api.parseapi.com/sanctions/Aero-Caribbean" \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

{
  "name": "aero caribbean",
  "sanctioned": true,
  "matches": [
    {
      "id": 36,
      "list": "sdn",
      "type": "entity",
      "name": "AEROCARIBBEAN AIRLINES",
      "programs": [
        "CUBA"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

curl "https://api.parseapi.com/sanctions/Jane%20Smith" \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

{
  "name": "jane smith",
  "sanctioned": false,
  "matches": []
}

Response fields

name: The name you passed, folded to its match key
sanctioned: On an official OFAC list as published. false is not clearance
matches: Official records matched. [] when sanctioned is false
matches[].id: OFAC uid, stable across publications
matches[].list: sdn or consolidated
matches[].type: individual, entity, vessel, or aircraft
matches[].name: Listed primary name, verbatim
matches[].programs: Official sanctions program codes (SDGT, CUBA, IRGC)

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