Companies House filings fetcher

Downloads paper filings from the Companies House API.

Uses Scrapy to manage downloading account filings from the Companies House API.

NOTE: This project was created as a prototype

Usage

scrapy crawl latest_paper_filing

Set up

Assumptions:

• Conda package manager installed

Steps:

Clone the project:

    clone git@github.com:ONSBigData/companies_house_filing_fetcher.git

Set up the Python environment:

    cd companies_house_filing_fetcher
    conda env create -f environment.yml
    conda activate pdf_downloader

Download a BasicCompanyDataAsOneFile csv from http://download.companieshouse.gov.uk/en_output.html.

Copy the config files to ~/config and edit their contents:

    mkdir ~/config
    cp ch_api_key.example.ini ~/config/ch_api_key_example.ini
    cp filing_fetcher_config.example.yml ~/config/filing_fetcher_config.yml

Review config values in spiders/settings.py.

Run the downloader:

    scrapy crawl latest_paper_filing