We don't have accounts, and we're nowhere near "live", but we have company directors in JSON, XML, and RDF on Who Runs It. Have a look at http://whorunsit.org/api for details on what you can do. Our APIs reference Companies House, OpenCorporates and LevelBusiness, so it should be possible to follow through the results to retrieve accounts from LB and expanded company info from CH/OC.
I'm also happy to make modifications to the site if you have any ideas. The source is up on github (not currently public, but not for any particular reason), so if anyone wants to help out, that'd be lovely too! We do chat to LevelBusiness occasionally, and they're keen on opening up some API stuff too. It's just a matter of time (I think they're looking for Python+Django coders too, if you know any). It's also worth mentioning DueDil.com, although they have no public API either - part of their data includes listings of company subsidiaries, and it'd be great to be able to get that kind of information opened up. -- Matt On 24 Oct 2011, at 11:12, Paul Waring wrote: > On 24/10/11 11:01, Chris Taggart wrote: >> Level Business have, however done the incredibly useful job of buying a >> bunch of annual reports directly from Companies House, and putting them >> out under an open licence (again to the extent that they have the rights >> to them). They shouldn't have to buy them (New Zealand and a bunch of US >> states for example make them freely available), and arguably it both >> unsustainable and undesirable from a principled point of view, but I >> think they should still be applauded for doing so. > > Level Business have bought some form of subscription service - or at least I > presume this is the case since you can view annual accounts on their site > within 24 hours of them being accepted by Companies House. I imagine for > quoted companies in the UK you could probably just scrape the accounts from > their websites, although that would not catch all their subsidiaries. > > There is also Company Check, but they force you to login in order to view > accounts, however you can view details of directors without a login: > > http://companycheck.co.uk/ > > I think OpenCorporates is the only site which allows you to get data as XML, > JSON etc. > > Paul > > -- > Paul Waring > http://www.pwaring.com > > _______________________________________________ > developers-public mailing list > developers-public@lists.mysociety.org > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > > Unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/matt%40inanimatt.com -- Matt Robinson http://inanimatt.com/ http://whorunsit.org/ _______________________________________________ developers-public mailing list developers-public@lists.mysociety.org https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public Unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/archive%40mail-archive.com
