A helpful command line utility which uses the Company House API to search for companies within a geographic locality given a search string and a regex of the postcode you are looking for companies within - possible uses are lead generation / job searching, enjoy
Requirements: Companies House API Key - see here: https://developer.companieshouse.gov.uk/api/docs/index/gettingStarted/apikey_authorisation.html Python 3
Run the script with the -h option for a help menu. Takes the following arguments: -a --api-token Your companies house API token. -p --post-code The post code you want to search for companies within in regex form -s --search-term The company names you want to search for.
e.g. ./company_house_search.py -a 12345 -p ^\"LS[0-9]+ -s petroleum
You can also set these variables in variables.py.
Command line arguments take precedent over what is set in variables.py.
You must run this with at least a search term and an API token, the post code search is optional.
Outputs a results.txt file with all the data gained from the search, and a titles.txt for a text file full of the companies titles, followed by their addresses.
Possible uses are: Lead generation (finding companies within a certain locality to easily start an advertising campaign.) Job searching (finding companies within a certain locality to check for vacancies)
Any questions, let me know.
Please note the following if having issues using this: http://forum.aws.chdev.org/t/search-company-officers-returns-http-416-when-start-index-over-300/897