API to find companies and directors based on multiple data fields

API Question
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Hello,

Does the current API allow searches for companies and director appointments based on the combination of multiple fields, such as address AND postcode AND country?

I was not yet able to find this information in the developer documentation. Any help would be welcome.

Best, Timo

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(I’m not Companies House) - the only info on this I’ve seen is as per my reply to this post:
http://forum.aws.chdev.org/t/registered-office-search/2008

I believe you can add some address requirements on searches for companies and officers e.g.:

http://forum.aws.chdev.org/t/searching-for-company-by-area/1147

http://forum.aws.chdev.org/t/searching-by-multiple-fields-e-g-name-and-address/951

Of particular note is the “what is search for” information which explains the rationale / use that they’re targetting:

http://forum.aws.chdev.org/t/for-search-companies-query-what-does-it-search-and-how/1007/2

Why would you need to search by postcode AND country? The reason I ask is I suspect this is not going to be entirely relevant because:

  • Of course It’s possible for “postcodes” to be the same in different countries (e.g. France / US ZIP) but you could easily check the results afterwards…
  • …That is, if the country is set in the Companies House data. Which it may well not be, or the format may not match (remember - for a data set across enough time even countries are not static…). In fact you won’t necessarily find a postcode (it also may not necessarily be in the “postcode” field).
  • In fact, since the data is user-input, you’ll find all sorts of stuff in there. So much so that I strongly suspect (I don’t know of course) that Companies House search will not be either complete or accurate.

Obviously it depends on what you need from this!