coho-spider

This is a scraper written by @haaroon and @rachchan that can be used to scrape data from companies house.

It uses python and scrapy.

You need to set the Authorization headers inside the tutorial/spiders/*.py files #

You also need to set the companies numbers without headers file, by default it reads and will scrape 1 company.

We have a list of companies but it may not be upto date.

You can get an api from the companies house website.

You can also contact companies house directly, their support and developer teams are extremely friendly and can get you direct access to bulk read only data.

license

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.