ftmq
ftmq queries and filters Follow The Money entities from json files / streams or from a statement-based nomenklatura store.
Its ftmq.Query is the backend-agnostic query object of the OpenAleph ecosystem: it filters FtM streams and stores, compiles to SQL, and converts to and from OpenAleph API params.
New to Follow The Money? See this introduction.
Installation
Minimum Python version: 3.11
pip install ftmq
Usage
Command line
cat entities.ftm.json | ftmq -q 'filter:schema=Company&filter:properties.country=de&filter:gte:properties.incorporationDate=2023' -o s3://data/entities-filtered.ftm.json
Python Library
from ftmq import Query, M, P, G, smart_read_proxies
# legal entities in `companies` based in Germany, or in Austria and incorporated
# since 2020, not dissolved: the 5 most recently incorporated
q = Query().where(
M(dataset="companies"),
M(schemata="LegalEntity"),
G(countries="de") | (G(countries="at") & P(incorporationDate__gte=2020)),
~P(status__ilike="%dissolved%"),
).order_by(P("incorporationDate"), ascending=False)[:5]
for proxy in smart_read_proxies("s3://data/entities.ftm.json", query=q):
print(proxy.caption)
Support
This project is part of investigraph
In 2023, development of ftmq was supported by Media Tech Lab Bayern batch #3
License and Copyright
ftmq, (C) 2023 Simon Wörpel
ftmq, (C) 2024-2025 investigativedata.io
ftmq, (C) 2025 Data and Research Center – DARC
ftmq is licensed under the AGPLv3 or later license.
Prior to version 0.8.0, ftmq was released under the MIT license.