Inquiry concerning the Companies House Document API

[rero.engineering]

It seems from the Companies House API docs that one can only retrieve the company documents only if they have the Document IDs for particular documents.
It seems there is no clear way of retrieving the Document IDs per company. Our intention is to use the API to get documents for various companies.

Is there an API endpoint that can list all documents given a company name? Or an endpoint that returns an array of Document IDs given
a company name or number?

[MArkWilliams]

have you read the documentation for filing history
https://developer-specs.company-information.service.gov.uk/companies-house-public-data-api/reference/filing-history
the following post may help

Document API Implementation

Good that you managed to answer your own question e.g. how to download documents for a given company number e.g.: Get the filing history For a given filing in the list, locate the “links” object, “document_metadata” member to get the metadata link Request the metadata link to get the document metadata object. Select your chosen data format (pdf, xml etc.), set the appropriate “Accept” http header, add “/content” on the end of the metadata link and request this to get the actual file. So you’…