# SiteCheck Sanctions Screening

> SiteCheck Sanctions Screening is a paid API for AI agents from api.sitecheck-api.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-16).

Screens a person, company, vessel, or aircraft name against major international sanctions lists (OFAC SDN, OFAC Consolidated, EU, UN, UK) and returns fuzzy-matched hits with scores and programme details.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.sitecheck-api.workers.dev/api/sanctions?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-16
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/sitecheck-sanctions-screening-fa6af050
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_q8aXmdmHYqIQeSV14kAry

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability sitecheck-sanctions-screening-fa6af050
```

Example prompt: Can you screen 'Rosneft Oil Company' as an entity against all major sanctions lists — OFAC SDN, OFAC Consolidated, EU, UN, and UK — and tell me if there are any matches?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a quick, multi-list fuzzy sanctions screen against the major global watchlists (OFAC SDN, OFAC Consolidated, EU, UN, UK) at $0.01 per call, especially for automated AML/KYC workflows, vendor onboarding, or counterparty due diligence. It supports fuzzy name matching with configurable thresholds and optional DOB and country hints to reduce false positives. Prefer this over manual lookups or more expensive compliance data providers when you need fast, API-accessible screening without a subscription.

## Known failure modes

- Missing required 'name' parameter returns a validation error
- Very short or ambiguous names may return many false positives at low thresholds
- Name transliteration variations may reduce match scores for non-Latin names
- Threshold set too high (e.g. 100) may miss aliases or alternate spellings
- Sanctions list data is refreshed at least daily, so very recent additions may not appear immediately
- Unsupported list names in 'lists' parameter may be silently ignored or return an error

## How this service works

Pay-per-call tools for AI agents: image generation, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, embeddings, LLM chat, website audits and contact enrichment, web page to Markdown reader, PDF to text, sitemap URLs, tech stack detection, translation, exchange rates, e-mail pre-check, domain RDAP/DNS lookup, Solana token checks, trending tokens and wallet holdings, plus business and compliance data (EU VAT/VIES, IBAN, LEI/GLEIF, US recalls, OSHA/EPA violations, UK insolvency notices). Also: SEO metadata, link checking, redirect chains, security headers, mail DNS (SPF, DMARC, DKIM), QR codes, language detection, photo EXIF, identifier validation, image OCR, SEC filings, SEC financials, Congress bills, macro rates, UK company data, GitHub repo stats, Hacker News, Wikipedia, gas prices, Solana swap quotes, ERC-20 token checks, ENS names, EVM wallet balances, EVM balances, transactions and contract calls, Solana transactions and accounts, crypto prices, candles and order books, DeFi TVL, yields and stablecoins, SEC insider trades, weather, geocoding and holidays, IP owners and postcodes, npm, PyPI and crates package data and vulnerabilities, GitHub profiles, arXiv papers and DOIs, structured extraction, summaries, sentiment and reranking, HTML tables and RSS feeds, Bitcoin fees, addresses and transactions, Bitcoin address balances, Bitcoin transaction status, EVM calldata decoding, verified EVM contracts, Hyperliquid perpetual markets, Hyperliquid account positions, Polymarket odds, crypto fear and greed, DeFi fees, DEX volume, company registries of four countries, ISIN, CUSIP and ticker lookup, SEC full-text search, SEC 8-K events, FDA drug labels, FDA adverse event counts, clinical trials, PubMed articles, US federal grants, EU public tenders, NPI provider lookup, US address geocoding, USGS earthquakes, NWS weather alerts, sunrise and moon times, time zone conversion, distance and bearing, GDACS disaster alerts, llms.txt checks, AI crawler access, tracker and cookie audits, certificate transparency, site logos and icons, GitHub releases, GitHub issues, Stack Overflow answers, read-only Wikidata queries, text moderation, image descriptions, text classification, named entity extraction, PII redaction, phone number checks, cron explanations, JSON Schema validation, whale transfers, SSL certificate expiry, Markdown to HTML, PageSpeed scores, Product Hunt launches, sanctions screening (OFAC, EU, UN, UK), flight fare search, YouTube transcripts, speech to text from media links, perpetual funding rates, crypto technical indicators, crypto news headlines, crypto spot conversion, World Bank macro indicators, loan and investment calculator, grammar checks, readability scores, keyword extraction, text diffs, transliteration and slugs, text chunking, subtitle translation, tone rewrites, working days, date calculations, unit conversion, book lookup, food nutrition, airport lookup, tide predictions, nearby places, robots.txt checks, hashes, encode and decode, JWT inspection, UUIDs and passwords, User-Agent parsing, subdomain discovery, uptime checks, VIN decoding, UK EORI checks, SWIFT and BIC checks, stock ticker lookup, invoice extraction, resume parsing, address parsing, prediction-market data, multi-chain RPC and chain data, compliance and government data, web data, search and research, AI text jobs. Plus prediction-market search, briefs, quotes and unsigned buy transactions, powered by Panta. Payment: x402, USDC on Base, Solana or Arc. No signup, no API key.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with a boolean 'hit' flag, the query parameters used, the lists checked, an array of matches each containing the list name, match score, matched and primary names, entry ID, sanctioned countries, programme names, listing date, entity type, and a source URL, plus a 'bestScore' value and the timestamp of the check. Also includes a disclaimer about the screening not being a substitute for professional legal advice.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "name"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "dob": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Date of birth for a person: YYYY-MM-DD, YYYY-MM or YYYY (optional)"
      },
      "name": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Name to screen (person, company, vessel or aircraft), up to 200 characters"
      },
      "type": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "person or entity (optional, sharpens the score)"
      },
      "lists": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Comma-separated lists, default all: ofac-sdn, ofac-consolidated, eu-sanctions-map, un-consolidated, uk-sanctions"
      },
      "country": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Country or nationality, ISO code or name (optional, raises or lowers the score)"
      },
      "threshold": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Match threshold 50-100, default 85 (lower finds more and more false alarms)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "hit": true,
  "query": {
   "dob": null,
   "name": "Rosneft Oil Company",
   "type": "entity",
   "lists": [
    "ofac-sdn",
    "ofac-consolidated",
    "eu-sanctions-map",
    "un-consolidated",
    "uk-sanctions"
   ],
   "country": null,
   "threshold": 85
  },
  "source": "OFAC SDN and Consolidated, EU consolidated list, UN Security Council list, UK Sanctions List (official files, refreshed at least daily)",
  "matches": [
   {
    "url": "https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/Details.aspx?id=17022",
    "list": "ofac-consolidated",
    "score": 100,
    "source": "U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control",
    "entryId": "17022",
    "countries": [
     "Russia"
    ],
    "entityType": "entity",
    "programmes": [
     "UKRAINE-EO13662",
     "RUSSIA-EO14024"
    ],
    "scoreNotes": [
     "name similarity 100 (exact)"
    ],
    "listingDate": null,
    "matchedName": "OPEN JOINT-STOCK COMPANY ROSNEFT OIL COMPANY",
    "primaryName": "OPEN JOINT-STOCK COMPANY ROSNEFT OIL COMPANY",
    "datesOfBirth": [],
    "matchedIsAlias": false
   },
   {
    "url": "https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/Details.aspx?id=17022",
    "list": "ofac-sdn",
    "score": 100,
    "source": "U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control",
    "entryId": "17022",
    "countries": [
     "Russia"
    ],
    "entityType": "entity",
    "programmes": [
     "UKRAINE-EO13662",
     "RUSSIA-EO14024"
    ],
    "scoreNotes": [
     "name similarity 100 (exact)"
    ],
    "listingDate": null,
    "matchedName": "OPEN JOINT-STOCK COMPANY ROSNEFT OIL COMPANY",
    "primaryName": "OPEN JOINT-STOCK COMPANY ROSNEFT OIL COMPANY",
    "datesOfBirth": [],
    "matchedIsAlias": false
   },
   {
    "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-uk-sanctions-list",
    "list": "uk-sanctions",
    "score": 100,
    "source": "UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office",
    "entryId": "RUS3064",
    "countries": [
     "Russia"
    ],
    "entityType": "entity",
    "programmes": [
     "The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019"
    ],
    "scoreNotes": [
     "name similarity 100 (exact)"
    ],
    "listingDate": "2025-10-15",
    "matchedName": "PJSC Rosneft Oil Company",
    "primaryName": "PJSC Rosneft Oil Company",
    "datesOfBirth": [],
    "matchedIsAlias": false
   }
  ],
  "bestScore": 100,
  "checkedAt": "2026-10-15T06:57:39.679Z",
  "disclaimer": "A screening aid, not a
… (truncated)
```

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