Rest Api Error 416

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Hi everyone, so we are using the Companies House REST API to build a simple product and we’ve been having the error 416 issues.

If I were to query a keyword search for example “bidco” there are more than 5000 items to search and the search just don’t go beyond the 1000th item.

Simply put, I get error 416 at the 1000th item.

Could anyone let me know how we should proceed with this, and what steps we can take to solve this issue??

Thanks.

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There are some limits to the total number of results from searches. Advanced search has a higher limit but there is still one.

Limits may have changed over time but see eg this thread:

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I should say - apparently Companies House policy is that this API is for narrowly targeted searches.

If you need a wider range they have bulk data sets (intermittent updated) you can download them search yourself. Search for eg. “Companies House Bulk Data”.