Screen Sanctions

{
  "deterministic": true,
  "hits": [
    {
      "list": "SDN",
      "matched_on": "primary",
      "name": "BANK MELLI IRAN",
      "programs": [
        "IRAN",
        "SDGT"
      ],
      "score": 100,
      "sdn_uid": 7241,
      "type": "entity"
    }
  ],
  "list": {
    "list_date": "2026-07-10",
    "source": "US Treasury OFAC"
  },
  "match": true,
  "query": {
    "name": "Bank Melli Iran",
    "threshold": 85
  },
  "total_hits": 1
}

# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://compliancepulse.theaslangroupllc.com/api/screen/sanctions?country=RU&name=Bank+Melli+Iran'

# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - 'https://compliancepulse.theaslangroupllc.com/api/screen/sanctions?country=RU&name=Bank+Melli+Iran' \
  | grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decode

// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

// Pays at most $0.02 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.02" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);

// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.02 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcompliancepulse.theaslangroupllc.com%2Fapi%2Fscreen%2Fsanctions
const res = await pay("https://compliancepulse.theaslangroupllc.com/api/screen/sanctions?country=RU&name=Bank+Melli+Iran");
console.log(res.status, await res.text());

# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client

# Pays at most $0.02 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.02"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))

with x402_requests(client) as session:
    res = session.get("https://compliancepulse.theaslangroupllc.com/api/screen/sanctions?country=RU&name=Bank+Melli+Iran")
    print(res.status_code, res.text)