List of Registers API

API Issues
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Is the following API Still LIve?

Company registers

Get the company registers information

Request

GET https://api.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/{company_number}/registers as I get 404 not found.

Also are any of the Sanction Lists available as an API - I have seen the XML Version which we could create our own API Version - But thought I would check before re-inventing the wheel. (https://ofsistorage.blob.core.windows.net/publishlive/2022format/ConList.xml)

Many Thanks

Bill

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Yes - it’s doing what it is specified to do. What people don’t realise is that there are in fact very few companies which would have values for this endpoint. Very few opt to maintain their registers with Companies House / on the public register. So for almost every company you request this for you’ll correctly get a 404 - because the company doesn’t have these.

Are you sure the ones you’re requesting do this? FWIW you can see the difference if you go to the Companies House web search - these companies will have an additional “Registers” tab.

Examples (I just ran these - I use curl here to make the request):

curl -u API_KEY_HERE:  https://api.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/04839785/registers
{"links":{"self":"/company/04839785/registers"},"kind":"registers","registers":{"directors":{"register_type":"directors","items":[{"moved_on":"2017-09-20","register_moved_to":"unspecified-location"}]},"secretaries":{"register_type":"secretaries","items":[{"moved_on":"2017-09-20","register_moved_to":"unspecified-location"}]},"persons_with_significant_control":{"register_type":"persons-with-significant-control","items":[{"moved_on":"2017-09-20","register_moved_to":"unspecified-location"}]},"members":{"register_type":"members","items":[{"moved_on":"2017-09-20","register_moved_to":"unspecified-location"}]}}}

curl -u API_KEY_HERE:  https://api.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/SC609220/registers
{"links":{"self":"/company/SC609220/registers"},"kind":"registers","registers":{"directors":{"register_type":"directors","items":[{"moved_on":"2018-09-27","register_moved_to":"public-register"}],"links":{"directors_register":"/company/SC609220/officers?register_view=true&register_type=directors"}},"usual_residential_address":{"register_type":"usual-residential-address","items":[{"moved_on":"2018-09-27","register_moved_to":"public-register"}]}}}

I’m not sure what sanctions lists you’re referring to, but that has nothing to do with Companies House as far as I’m aware - unless you mean “Disqualified officers”? That is part of the API.

Hope this helps.