Hi,
I have found a discrepancy in filing history document returned by Companies House Beta API compared to Companies House Direct API:
Rolls Royce Group (04706930), the Incorporation filing history dated 21 Mar 2003 seems to point to entirely different document.
I have made the following call to CH Beta API:
Endpoint:
“https://api.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/04706930/filing-history/MDE0ODIzNDI3MGFkaXF6a2N4”
Response:
{
“description”: “incorporation-company”,
“type”: “NEWINC”,
“date”: “2003-03-21”,
“category”: “incorporation”,
“pages”: 88,
“paper_filed”: true,
“links”: {
“document_metadata”: “https://document-api.companieshouse.gov.uk/document/n_kVtVBDMmkPcb63ZO8GT_Exmz3Pg9A1qZ7fkZI55c0”,
“self”: “/company/04706930/filing-history/MDE0ODIzNDI3MGFkaXF6a2N4”
},
“transaction_id”: “MDE0ODIzNDI3MGFkaXF6a2N4”
}
The above result shows that the document contains 88 pages.
However, when we retrieved the document metadata, it returns the below result:
Endpoint:
“https://document-api.companieshouse.gov.uk/document/n_kVtVBDMmkPcb63ZO8GT_Exmz3Pg9A1qZ7fkZI55c0”
Response
{
“company_number”: “04706930”,
“barcode”: “D1Z1E7LO”,
“significant_date”: null,
“significant_date_type”: “”,
“category”: “miscellaneous”,
“pages”: 29,
“created_at”: “2015-07-03T08:57:07.215836996Z”,
“etag”: “”,
“links”: {
“self”: “https://document-api.companieshouse.gov.uk/document/n_kVtVBDMmkPcb63ZO8GT_Exmz3Pg9A1qZ7fkZI55c0”,
“document”: “https://document-api.companieshouse.gov.uk/document/n_kVtVBDMmkPcb63ZO8GT_Exmz3Pg9A1qZ7fkZI55c0/content”
},
“resources”: {
“application/pdf”: {
“content_length”: 707188
}
}
}
As you can see, the above shows that the document has only 29 pages. When downloading the exact same filing history from CH direct, it returned the correct document with 88 pages.
This happens both in your API and your website: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/04706930/filing-history
Direct link to the document: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/04706930/filing-history/MDE0ODIzNDI3MGFkaXF6a2N4/document?format=pdf&download=0
Could you clarify why the CH beta returns a different document than CH Direct?
Which document contains the correct filing history?
Cheers,
Paco