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ftmq

This library provides methods to query and filter entities formatted as Follow The Money data, either from a json file/stream or using a statement-based store backend from nomenklatura.

It also provides a Query class that can be used in other libraries to work with SQL store queries or api queries.

ftmq.Query is the central query hub of the OpenAleph ecosystem: one backend-agnostic query object that filters FtM streams and stores, translates to SQL, and bridges to the OpenAleph API.

To get familiar with the Follow The Money ecosystem, you can have a look at this pad here.

Installation

Minimum Python version: 3.11

pip install ftmq

Usage

Command line

cat entities.ftm.json | ftmq -s Company -p country=de -p incorporationDate__gte=2023 -o s3://data/entities-filtered.ftm.json

Python Library

from ftmq import Query, M, P, G, smart_read_proxies

# Legal entities in the `companies` dataset that are based in Germany, or in
# Austria and incorporated since 2020, but never the dissolved ones, return the
# 5 most recent incorporated ones:
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("incorporationDate", ascending=False)[:5]

for proxy in smart_read_proxies("s3://data/entities.ftm.json"):
    if q.apply(proxy):
        yield proxy

Support

This project is part of investigraph

In 2023, development of ftmq was supported by Media Tech Lab Bayern batch #3

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.

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