harrystays / CompaniesLookup

:office: Simple and fast tool to find companies from Companies House database (with their Company Number or Company Name).

CompaniesLookup

Simple and fast tool to find companies (from their Company Number or Company Name).

I realized there was no such console tools for finding a company from Companies House database (similar to the Unix whois command for finding the domain names' details).

Steup

• Be sure PHP 7.0 or higher is installed

• Install Composer (https://getcomposer.org)

• Then run:

$ composer install

• Rename .env.example to .env

$ mv .env.example .env

• Request your Companies House API key => https://developer.companieshouse.gov.uk/developer/applications

• Open the file (with your favourite text editor)

$ nano .env

• Add the Companies House API Key between the double quote " "

• Change the permissions of the companies bash file (if you use the bash shortcut file)

$ chmod u+x ./companies

• Run the script:

$ ./companies <COMPANY_NAME / COMPANY_ID>

OR

php bin/companies companies:search <COMPANY_NAME / COMPANY_ID>

Example to find HSBC company

With the Company Name:

$ ./companies HSBC

Or with the Company ID:

$ ./companies 06388542

• Enjoy!

Requirements

• PHP 7.0 or higher
• Composer
• Companies House API key

About me

I'm Pierre-Henry Soria, Software Engineer (love that!) and also passionate about marketing and e-businesses.

Where to contact me?

You can by email at pierrehenrysoria+github [[AT]] gmail [[D0T]] com

License

Under General Public License 3 or later.