yente is an open source screening API service. It provides functions to search, retrieve or match FollowTheMoney entities, including people, companies or vessels that are subject to international sanctions.
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The yente API is built to provide access to OpenSanctions data, it can also be used to search and match other data, such as company registries or custom watchlists.
While yente
is the open source core code base for the OpenSanctions API, it can also be run on-premises as a KYC appliance so that no customer data leaves the deployment context. The software is distributed as a Docker image with a pre-defined docker-compose.yml
configuration that also provisions the requisite ElasticSearch index.
Note: this documentation is only relevant to users who plan to self-host the API. Click here if you'd prefer to use our hosted API service.
OpenSanctions is free for non-commercial users. Businesses must acquire a data license to use the dataset.