500 error for advanced search

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Hi,
I’m getting 500 response for https://api.companieshouse.gov.uk/advanced-search/companies endpoint from yesterday.

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We are experiencing the same problem.

3

In the website also the Advanced Search is not working.

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Hmm… Advanced Search in the website worked Ok for me just now (+01 09:06). The following give results and no error:

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/advanced-search/get-results?companyNameIncludes=&companyNameExcludes=&registeredOfficeAddress=&incorporationFromDay=&incorporationFromMonth=&incorporationFromYear=&incorporationToDay=&incorporationToMonth=&incorporationToYear=&sicCodes=&type=eeig&dissolvedFromDay=&dissolvedFromMonth=&dissolvedFromYear=&dissolvedToDay=&dissolvedToMonth=&dissolvedToYear=

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/advanced-search/get-results?companyNameIncludes=greggs&companyNameExcludes=&registeredOfficeAddress=&incorporationFromDay=&incorporationFromMonth=&incorporationFromYear=&incorporationToDay=&incorporationToMonth=&incorporationToYear=&sicCodes=&dissolvedFromDay=&dissolvedFromMonth=&dissolvedFromYear=&dissolvedToDay=&dissolvedToMonth=&dissolvedToYear=

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Thanks for the notification. Yes now it is working fine in website and API too.

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Hi,
I’m also getting 500 response for https://api.companieshouse.gov.uk/advanced-search/companies endpoint.

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It is working now. Please check.

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I’m seeing the same problem, not just with Advanced Search but with some of the other endpoints too

For example:

https://api.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12345

throws 500 (I’m expecting a 404)

I’m pretty sure this is not a problem with the way we do authentication as it has worked fine many times before.

Also, the following query works fine when authenticated in exactly the same way:

https://api.company-information.service.gov.uk/search/officers?q=John+Doe

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Seems to be an issue with that company id (12345). It was intended to be a non-existent company and return 404 but started returning 500, possibly something was changed in the endpoint that expects a particular format.
Putting in a real company id in returns fine.
No longer a problem now that I can ping the endpoint to test authentication.

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Yes, invalid company codes (e.g. less than 8 characters long) apparently give you an 500 error, rather 404 not found code you get for ones which merely don’t exist yet.

See thread here:

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