Companies House API Issues

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When creating your app did you specify that you wanted a live app? The test / sandbox mode may not work correctly.

Depending on how you’re requesting data from Companies House you need to register your IP or the host name (if you’re using a javascript-style request). This should be done where you’ve registered your app.

If you are just using a localhost set up rather than e.g. a fixed IP there is a workaround for that, see this thread:

Allow localhost JavaScript domain?

Hello @david, A workaround is simply to give a hostname to your IP address, by editing /etc/hosts or its equivalent on your OS. 192.168.0.1 localhost my.localdomain And you can now register my.localdomain as a CH API “JavaScript domains”. Still, a status update would be appreciated, for something that was already on the backlog in 2015. Just remove the piece of code preventing localhost as a valid domain name, and you’re done.

If you are hosted on some environment with a range of host servers / IPs I think there’s a way to cover that but am not sure how. Search this forum / have a look at this thread:

Getting 403 for all requests from AWS EC2

Hi. I’m getting 403 Forbidden responses for requests to https://api.companieshouse.gov.uk from my live servers in AWS EC2. This currently happening consistently from every machine I’ve tried in eu-west-1 (Ireland) and eu-west-2 (London), including from IPs which I’ve had exclusively for many years. The api responds normally for requests with the same key from my dev environment. Can anyone please advise? Thanks.

Good luck.