Hi,
I am attempting to use Company Profile api to download company profiles but am getting a 403 Forbidden error.
I intend to write PHP code to do this but am carrying out initial testing (to verify that I am using the API correctly) using curl (api key and company number obfuscated):
curl -v -XGET -u 01234567-89ab-cdef-0123-456789abcdef: https://api.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01234567
This is giving the following response:
< HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
< Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 15:51:42 GMT
< Content-Length: 0
< Connection: keep-alive
- Server CompaniesHouse is not blacklisted
< Server: CompaniesHouse
< - Connection #0 to host api.company-information.service.gov.uk left intact
The API Key was created today by me with the Live options selected. I had initially tried creating a Test API key and used that with sandbox url but that also just fails. I had also initially restricted the IP addresses, but then tried removing the restriction without success.
Am I doing something wrong? Can you help?
Peter Clements