Search Companies API - Search results

[abaratta]

We are using Company House - Search Company API to get information about a company with company name and during our testing we have noticed for the company name : APPLE we are getting over 4000 results. Looks like it’s returning us results for company name with contains

Is there any way we can reduce the results for such companies? And add in the company_status as active to reduce the number of results

[MArkWilliams]

The API is not intended for data harvesting...

There is only one APPLE ltd, the first in the results.
You need to parse the returned list and do your own matching.
If you supply the full company name, the search will give you that company name plus other 'matches'.
So your solution may be one of:-
- use a bulk product like http://download.companieshouse.gov.uk/en_output.html
- use the full correct company name for searches
- use the company number and get the data directly from https://api.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/{company_number}