First Time use - 403: Forbidden

Morning,

First time trying to use the application with a simple “Officers” search, and each time I am getting back a 403 error.
I think I am calling it correctly via a c# GET request to…

https://aaaaaaMyAppApiKeyaaaaaaa:@api.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/01010101/officers

Any reason why I would get 403.

I see in other posts people are reporting because of over attempts to search - but this is the first time using the app, so it wont be that (unless others in my organization have tried to use the search in their own apps)

Thanks

IP Address is 151.133.1.77

Hello CH?
Hello??? Is this mic on? Hellooooooo???

(just another punter here - CH would have to check any blocking) - did you register the API key yourself? What was the url you gave when registering? Just wondering if it’s possible that another part of the organization could have exceeded the limit.

The method for authentication you’re using may not always work - it’s dependent on the http client (although it does where I’ve tried it e.g. curl, Firefox etc.) In some cases it can expose your API key. I don’t use C# so can’t speak for that however.

There is actually a company 01010101 e.g. - api.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/09367067.

Your IP address is not banned. Today between 9 and 10am there were 45 accesses from that address, but they were web based, not API based.