# Is the Document API broken?

**URL:** <http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/is-the-document-api-broken/1371>\
**Category:** API Issues\
**Created:** [October 3, 2017, 8:34am UTC](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/is-the-document-api-broken/1371 "2017-10-03T08:34:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![manoj\_ranaweera](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/user_avatar/forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/manoj_ranaweera/32/110_2.png) [@manoj\_ranaweera](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/u/manoj_ranaweera)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 8:34am UTC](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/is-the-document-api-broken/1371/1 "2017-10-03T08:34:38Z")

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We are getting an internal server error when [https://developer.companieshouse.gov.uk/document/docs/](https://developer.companieshouse.gov.uk/document/docs/) used. Our App works fine until very recently. Have you changed the API recently?

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**Author:** ![MArkWilliams](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/user_avatar/forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/markwilliams/32/194_2.png) [@MArkWilliams](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/u/MArkWilliams)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 8:48am UTC](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/is-the-document-api-broken/1371/2 "2017-10-03T08:48:34Z")

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You should be using [https://developer.companieshouse.gov.uk/api/docs/](https://developer.companieshouse.gov.uk/api/docs/)

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**Author:** ![manoj\_ranaweera](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/user_avatar/forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/manoj_ranaweera/32/110_2.png) [@manoj\_ranaweera](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/u/manoj_ranaweera)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 9:42am UTC](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/is-the-document-api-broken/1371/3 "2017-10-03T09:42:19Z")

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Hi Mark

That’s a strange response. If you click Document API in the link you sent, you will see it get you to [https://developer.companieshouse.gov.uk/document/docs/document/id/id.html](https://developer.companieshouse.gov.uk/document/docs/document/id/id.html)

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**Author:** ![manoj\_ranaweera](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/user_avatar/forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/manoj_ranaweera/32/110_2.png) [@manoj\_ranaweera](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/u/manoj_ranaweera)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 9:45am UTC](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/is-the-document-api-broken/1371/4 "2017-10-03T09:45:11Z")

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I also noted that URLs have this format [https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/document-api-images-prod/docs/d6yyrElThSvNKNclrZSEu0yvWVyl120sY71zuh\_mvZU/application-pdf](https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/document-api-images-prod/docs/d6yyrElThSvNKNclrZSEu0yvWVyl120sY71zuh_mvZU/application-pdf). Cannot remember what it was before

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**Author:** ![manoj\_ranaweera](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/user_avatar/forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/manoj_ranaweera/32/110_2.png) [@manoj\_ranaweera](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/u/manoj_ranaweera)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 10:16am UTC](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/is-the-document-api-broken/1371/5 "2017-10-03T10:16:19Z")

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We are going to attempt a fix as I don’t like broken things on our Platform.

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**Author:** ![manoj\_ranaweera](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/user_avatar/forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/manoj_ranaweera/32/110_2.png) [@manoj\_ranaweera](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/u/manoj_ranaweera)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 11:45am UTC](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/is-the-document-api-broken/1371/6 "2017-10-03T11:45:01Z")

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Fixed the problem - but your API as documented is broken @MArkWilliams

 ![](http://discourselive.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/original/1X/e66f1e09ae145281dfffbfc09fe065f2fc0ba509.jpg)

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**Author:** ![bizflydeveloper](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@bizflydeveloper](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/u/bizflydeveloper)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2017, 1:59pm UTC](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/is-the-document-api-broken/1371/7 "2017-10-24T13:59:44Z")

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I also think that the document API may be broken, and have spent a fair amount of time with it. @manoj_ranaweera - any advice on a workaround?

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**Author:** ![manoj\_ranaweera](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/user_avatar/forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/manoj_ranaweera/32/110_2.png) [@manoj\_ranaweera](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/u/manoj_ranaweera)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2017, 3:28pm UTC](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/is-the-document-api-broken/1371/8 "2017-10-24T15:28:25Z")

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I need to ask from my colleague who build the app when she is back tomorrow, but I think it uses “[https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/document-api-images-prod/docs/xxxxx](https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/document-api-images-prod/docs/xxxxx)”. I believe xxxxx could be picked up from the API.

Let me know if you like to try out what we built.