OpenSanctions.org

The codebase for OpenSanctions, an open-source repository of sanctions data, politically exposed persons, and other entities of interest.

OpenSanctions uses Follow the Money, a JSON-based anti-corruption data model, as a common target for all crawlers. Additonal exports into CSV and JSON formats are planned.

• opensanctions.org
  • Datasets
  • About the project
  • FAQ
  • API
• Technical documentation (readthedocs.org)
  • Installation
  • Adding crawlers
• Data sources roadmap
• Data licensing
• Contact us

Technical overview

Repository layout:

• opensanctions/: Python project with data extraction and cleaning components
• site/: Next.js project web site
• api/: FastAPI appliance for the project API and on-premises KYC use
• docs/: Sphinx technical documentation

Daily data extraction and processing runs on GitHub Actions. Status:

Licensing: code is MIT-licensed, content & data is CC 4.0 Attribution-NonCommercial.