Is it possible to get previous months downloads? Also, a question for users of this product; how reliable has the data been in the past? Have you experienced any issues with it? I’m looking to base a product on this download and would just like to have an idea of reliability. Also, on the Free Company Data Product page it says it’s unsupported, what exactly does that mean? Is this product likely to be offered into the future?
Any answers would be very much appreciated.
Regards
Richard
Sorry, but previous months downloads are not available.
There are no plans to withdraw the product.
Unsupported simply means that we cannot assist you or offer advice with regards to your technical solution to process the data. e.g. if your ‘Python’ code does not work, we cannot help you.
Hope this helps.
Presumably the original question was asking about the files here Companies House
Is it still the case that no previous months are available?
If that is so, do I need to access past records via an API?
Thank you
Chris
Yes, no previous months are available.
This product contains all active/live and recently dissolved companies.
The only companies it does not contain are dissolved companies.
Thanks Mark.
Any way to get data on dissolved companies for studies that go back decades?
(I am a researcher at a university and we typically like to have 25+ years of data)
There are no dissolved bulk products. The dissolved companies on CHS/API are only since 01/01/2010. You could request a bespoke product, although there would be a charge for that. They can work out expensive.
There is a daily liquidation product on our ftp service, but that is a daily update, not a full historic product.
There may be companies (possibly on this forum) who might be able to supply the data you need.
Contact admin@statbooks.co.uk with your requirements.
We have daily and historic data products for dissolved companies in our subscription and ad hoc portfolios.
This also answered my recent post.
A shame as it would save a lot of stress on the API.