Officers_id, id and Authorisation for fetching document and metadata

[agrawal_vithika]

I am facing issue in fetching metadata and documents where it is asking for id and authorisation? I am unable to fetch these datapoints. Also, where can i get the officer id?

[mfairhurst]

@agrawal_vithika

I’m hoping the post below will be able to help with the fetching of documents.

Help with Document API & Fetch a Document

Hi there, I was wondering if anyone has had any luck with the “Fetch a Document” within the Document API (https://developer.companieshouse.gov.uk/document/docs/document/id/content/fetchDocument.html). The documentation is not very helpful: Authorization This header parameter contains the token_type and the access_token. See example Does anyone know what the token_type and access_token are? On the explore API section it asked for “id” (Which I know), “Authorization [sic]” (Which I don’t know…

The officer_id is not explicitly returned but the officer search or other referencing documents returns the whole URL in the “links” elements. The following post may provide some further information.

Officer_ID - where is this?

Might be being really dumb here but where can I find the officer_id? The officer list doesn’t have one GET /officers/{officer_id}/appointments …its ok I found it

Thanks,

@mfairhurst