API Overview

Authentication

To authenticate your requests, please supply an API key in the HTTP header x-api-key:

--header 'X-API-KEY: {YOUR_API_KEY}'

This API doesn’t support cross-origin requests (CORS). To access it, make requests from a backend server.

Create an API key

To get an API key, please sign up here. Chainalysis will email an API key to the supplied email.

Rate limiting

Your API key allows you to make 5000 requests per 5 minutes. If your API Key is rate limited, you will receive 403 errors until your limit resets (every 5 minutes). If you need a higher limit, please contact Chainalysis.

OpenAPI Document

Download the Sanctions Screening OpenAPI Document to import into Postman and other tools.