Tag Archive: API

  • Part 2: Using the Companies House API

    Part 2: Using the companies house API, by Callum

    Part 2: Using the Companies House API Welcome back following part 1… Getting a list of companies via Python – Advanced Filtering. This example will look at the transport sector, leveraging the SIC codes in companies house. This can be altered accordingly to suit the business nature you are looking for. The libraries allows you to do more with Python, in this example that will included API calls, referencing the current date time and…

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  • Python Dictionaries – What do I need to know?

    Python Dictionaries – What do I need to know?

    When you’re learning Python, dictionaries are one of the most important data structures you’ll encounter. Unlike lists (see blog post) which store items by position, dictionaries store data as key-value pairs, making them the natural choice whenever you need to look something up by name rather than by index. In this post, we’ll cover everything you need to know about Python dictionaries: what they are, how they work, and how to…

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  • Part 1: Using the Companies House API

    : A person wearing a Purple Frog-branded polo shirt stands with arms crossed in front of a modern curved glass building. The background features a purple geometric design with hexagons and circular tech-style graphics. Text on the right reads: ‘Part 1: Using the companies house API.’

    The .gov website hosts companies house and the companies house API. This is a comprehensive list of businesses across the UK, new and old, big and small, and their filings and info. You can interact with this information via code such as Python. The following blog post series will show you how to perform an advanced search of companies – using multiple different filters to get specific businesses – and then looping through these results to…

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