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
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