# Https://api.companieshouse.gov.uk/search/officers query ability improvement request

**URL:** <http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/https-api-companieshouse-gov-uk-search-officers-query-ability-improvement-request/850>\
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**Created:** [November 23, 2016, 10:24am UTC](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/https-api-companieshouse-gov-uk-search-officers-query-ability-improvement-request/850 "2016-11-23T10:24:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 12:07am UTC](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/https-api-companieshouse-gov-uk-search-officers-query-ability-improvement-request/850/3 "2016-12-05T00:07:06Z")

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Hi Mark, what is the correct manner to past the month/year into the ‘q’ of the query string to bring back matching results?

That is my objective, I’m not interesting in results that do not contain this information, as I need as small a result set as possible.

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