Exploring data from Companies House
Channel: Creating with Data
Date: 2023-04-07

This video is an introduction to getting data from Companies House. It shows the steps of how you can get company details using both the web interface and the API.

In it I discuss the limitations of the API, particularly when it comes to searching and retrieving non-standard details on multiple companies.  More or less these are the steps I needed to take when creating the Tech Companies in Edinburgh visualisation.

Full notes including code can be found on the blog:  https://creatingwithdata.com/exploring-data-from-companies-house/

0:00 Intro
3:02 Download bulk company data from web search
6:49 Download bulk data with Companies House API search  
14:08 Paging beyond 5000 results
17:53 Python script to augment basic a bulk dataset