# Will \`disqualified-officers\` stream be started some day?

**URL:** <http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/will-disqualified-officers-stream-be-started-some-day/6915>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [October 1, 2023, 9:51am UTC](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/will-disqualified-officers-stream-be-started-some-day/6915 "2023-10-01T09:51:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![timur](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@timur](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/u/timur)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2023, 9:51am UTC](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/will-disqualified-officers-stream-be-started-some-day/6915/1 "2023-10-01T09:51:24Z")

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I’ve been listening to this stream for a while but didn’t recieve any data yet. Does it operating?

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**Author:** ![ebrian101](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/user_avatar/forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/ebrian101/32/1145_2.png) [@ebrian101](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/u/ebrian101)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2023, 11:12am UTC](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/will-disqualified-officers-stream-be-started-some-day/6915/2 "2023-10-02T11:12:18Z")

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Yes the stream started a while ago.

Event received on disqualified-officers stream at 2023-10-02T08:09:58.589Z.

```auto
{
  "resource_kind": "disqualified-officer-natural",
  "resource_uri": "/disqualified-officers/natural/gU1mHt0iWTT1y-Kh5EY1MEMfl3U",
  "resource_id": "gU1mHt0iWTT1y-Kh5EY1MEMfl3U",
  "data": {
    "disqualifications": [
      {
        "address": {
          "address_line_1": "Enterprise Road",
          "country": "United Kingdom",
          "locality": "Hampshire",
          "postal_code": "PO8 8BT",
          "region": "Waterlooville"
        },
        "case_identifier": "INV6616877",
        "company_names": [
          "TRADING ESSENCE LIMITED"
        ],
        "disqualification_type": "undertaking",
        "disqualified_from": "2023-10-02",
        "disqualified_until": "2034-10-01",
        "reason": {
          "act": "company-directors-disqualification-act-1986",
          "description_identifier": "order-or-undertaking-and-reporting-provisions",
          "section": "7"
        },
        "undertaken_on": "2023-09-11"
      }
    ],
    "etag": "a728dfa113ef7e42e692446a19a4d6e3c50a6c00",
    "forename": "Mohammad",
    "kind": "natural-disqualification",
    "links": {
      "self": "/disqualified-officers/natural/gU1mHt0iWTT1y-Kh5EY1MEMfl3U"
    },
    "nationality": "British",
    "surname": "UDDIN",
    "title": "Mr"
  },
  "event": {
    "timepoint": 4154,
    "published_at": "2023-10-02T00:05:05.424309+01:00",
    "type": "changed"
  }
}

```

(copied from [Sample events from Companies House Streaming API](https://companies.stream/samples) where you can also download more than 2,000 historical events from this stream)

As the timepoint indicates, there have already been around 4,000 events on this stream since it started.

There are not many events on this stream. For context, this is the number of events received each day in the first week of September:

```auto
{
  '2023-09-01': 20,
  '2023-09-02': 13,
  '2023-09-03': 9,
  '2023-09-04': 19,
  '2023-09-05': 12,
  '2023-09-06': 10,
  '2023-09-07': 6,
}

```

You can try connecting to the stream with the timepoint parameter to get a few past events, the most recent received at time of writing it `timepoint=4154`, so start a few behind that to get some events immediately.

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**Author:** ![timur](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@timur](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/u/timur)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2023, 4:18pm UTC](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/will-disqualified-officers-stream-be-started-some-day/6915/3 "2023-10-02T16:18:54Z")

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Thanks @ebrian101 it helps  
For some reason I didn’t receive any error when connecting with `timepoint=0` but `4154` works

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**Author:** ![timur](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@timur](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/u/timur)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2023, 4:23pm UTC](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/will-disqualified-officers-stream-be-started-some-day/6915/4 "2023-10-02T16:23:46Z")

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Could you please share earliest event’s timepoint known if you listen the stream from the beginning? In samples you mentioned it is `1028`

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**Author:** ![ebrian101](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/user_avatar/forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/ebrian101/32/1145_2.png) [@ebrian101](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/u/ebrian101)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2023, 4:29pm UTC](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/will-disqualified-officers-stream-be-started-some-day/6915/5 "2023-10-02T16:29:08Z")

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I’m afraid I only started collecting the events at the 1028 timepoint which I why thats the first in my samples.  
I would presume that it started at 0 when the stream was released.  
You can only use the timepoint parameter to request events from the last week or so, so you won’t be able to set it to 0 (which was more than a year ago).