Company Profile wrong JSON in response

API Issues
1

Hello

I have tool, that take data from db and for each record making a request to CH Api to check information.
So here can be approx N thousands consecutive requests (each request to do 2 request per iteration, for company profile and officers).

Sometimes https://api.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/{company_no} returns invalid json for company profile.
On current moment I have broken JSON after approx 360 requests

At last run I have problem for company number 00173955.
I received following for api.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/00173955

status: 200
array(
   'etag' => 'a92a239043c5b396603f6e354ddc97d59c871c8d',
   'registered_office_address' => 
  stdClass::__set_state(array(
  )),
   'can_file' => false,
)

and following for api.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/00173955/officers

status: 200
array(
   'total_results' => 0,
   'links' => 
  stdClass::__set_state(array(
  )),
   'start_index' => 0,
   'etag' => '',
   'items_per_page' => 35,
   'active_count' => 0,
   'kind' => 'officer-list',
   'resigned_count' => 0,
   'items' => 
  array (
  ),
)

Please contact with me if you need more information.

It looks like I can reproduce it.

Thank you
Dmitry Golubev

2

@d_e_golubev

I have just tested that particular company and it returns the profile and officers correctly.

Can you confirm that the information provided is debug from your code, as this is not returned from our API.

Given the detail you have provided are you possibly hitting your rate limit for the API key being used, which is set to 600 requests in a five minute period? This will return a 429 status code?

Thanks,

@mfairhurst