opensanctions/yente

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API for OpenSanctions with support for entity search and bulk matching of data collections. Supports Reconciliation API spec.

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Forks: 69
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 39
Avg merge: 4d 5h
Merged PRs (30d): 12

Dominant language: Python
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 13, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
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39 open issues indexed

Bound /match name queries by resource budgets Open

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opensanctions/yente#1264 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Statuses declared on YenteError subclasses are dead code Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

opensanctions/yente#1263 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
With more than one scope configured, a lost shard silently drops results instead of erroring Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

opensanctions/yente#1260 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Rework n-gram candidate retrieval: per-token trigrams on comparable parts Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

opensanctions/yente#1254 · Opened Sep 13, 2026
Two normalisation families in the match index: names/ngrams (ES analyzer) vs name_parts (rigour) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

opensanctions/yente#1253 · Opened Sep 13, 2026
Candidate retrieval penalises entities with many aliases via the names text clause Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

opensanctions/yente#1252 · Opened Sep 13, 2026
lifespan() hangs before yield — server never starts accepting connections (aiocron.crontab call never returns) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

opensanctions/yente#1235 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 11, 2026
Support excluding personal data fields when syncing OpenSanctions datasets Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

opensanctions/yente#1179 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 13, 2026
Acceptance tests for matching quality Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

opensanctions/yente#1168 · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 5, 2026
Explore if the `/match` ES queries are badly optimised Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

opensanctions/yente#1132 · Opened May 4, 2026
Formulate and enact testing strategy Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

opensanctions/yente#1128 · 4 comments · Opened Apr 28, 2026
Explore `granian` for ASGI Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

opensanctions/yente#1101 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 12, 2026
Spec for `/v2/match` Open

api-v2 enhancement

opensanctions/yente#1100 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 8, 2026
Improve ES query weighting in entity_query to better align with LogicV2 scoring Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

opensanctions/yente#1093 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 7, 2026
No HTTP endpoint to check if re-indexing is in progress Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

opensanctions/yente#1086 · Opened Apr 1, 2026
Create an acceptance testing report to put on file with a release Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

opensanctions/yente#1081 · Opened Mar 31, 2026
Reject non-parseable queries with 4xx Open

api-v2

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

opensanctions/yente#1073 · Opened Mar 23, 2026
Is there a built-in mechanism to filter or exclude personal data (PII)? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

opensanctions/yente#1070 · Opened Mar 20, 2026
Write a go-live checklist Open

docs

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

opensanctions/yente#1051 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 3, 2026
Add Audit Trail Export for Compliance Documentation (SAR Filing, Regulatory Exams) Open

enhancement operations

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

opensanctions/yente#1032 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 14, 2026
Heuristics to score fewer index candidates Open

perf

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

opensanctions/yente#1011 · 3 comments · Opened Feb 2, 2026
[docs] Should we start discouraging batching or at least not encourage it? Open

api-v2 matching

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

opensanctions/yente#1001 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 22, 2026
Feature Request: Add YENTE_INDEX_CONCURRENCY setting for parallel dataset indexing Open

enhancement operations

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

opensanctions/yente#989 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 2, 2026
Delta_url doesn't accept file path Open

enhancement operations

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

opensanctions/yente#987 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 30, 2025
Recent modifications API Open

enhancement matching question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

opensanctions/yente#969 · Opened Dec 5, 2025
Expose the dataset event audit log in the API Open

operations

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

opensanctions/yente#968 · Opened Dec 5, 2025
Support exclude_entity_ids in request body per query Open

api-v2 matching

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

opensanctions/yente#957 · 6 comments · Opened Nov 21, 2025
match: reduce the max for the `limit` param? Open

api-v2 perf

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

opensanctions/yente#927 · Opened Oct 24, 2025
Thought experiment: index partitions Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

opensanctions/yente#921 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 20, 2025
yente thinks it's out of date when there was no delta in a release Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

opensanctions/yente#885 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 11, 2025
last_change doesn't get updated in delta updates but is updated in the bulk export Open

operations

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

opensanctions/yente#873 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 2, 2025
Should yente do a full index every N times? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

opensanctions/yente#861 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 27, 2025
Consider adding last_change to match sorts if provided Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

opensanctions/yente#852 · Opened Aug 22, 2025
Implement filtering datasets using tags Open

api-v2

opensanctions/yente#754 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened May 28, 2025
Request for Elastic Serverless support Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

opensanctions/yente#691 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 19, 2025
Use deltas only with dataset Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

opensanctions/yente#685 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 14, 2025
Set up more container security scanning Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

opensanctions/yente#401 · Opened Feb 15, 2024
Make a helm chart Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

opensanctions/yente#286 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Jul 13, 2023
Implement similar entities endpoint Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

opensanctions/yente#23 · Opened Feb 1, 2022

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