5 ways to use the OpenCorporates API to power your critical business processes

Workflow automation, data analytics and AI increasingly power all kinds of vital business tools. But these technologies can only scale and power critical business processes if the data fuelling them is reliable and fit-for-purpose. That’s why hundreds of enterprises rely on the OpenCorporates API every day, to enhance their solutions with programmatic access to transparent … Continue reading 5 ways to use the OpenCorporates API to power your critical business processes →

Isle of Man Financial Intelligence Unit integrates OpenCorporates data to help detect financial crime

The Isle of Man Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has acquired OpenCorporates’ data to support its mission ‘to protect the integrity of the Isle of Man’s financial system’. As part of this remit, the FIU aims to use OpenCorporates’ data to help detect financial crimes such as money laundering, as well as terrorist financing. This helps … Continue reading Isle of Man Financial Intelligence Unit integrates OpenCorporates data to help detect financial crime →

Company data at scale: when to use an API or a whole dataset in bulk? (Or both)

The ability to search for company data record-by-record is invaluable, but what about when you need the data at scale – such as to automate workflows, underpin a tech platform or connect it with other datasets? Whilst some company registries are still in the business of providing company data on CDs (anybody remember those?), two … Continue reading Company data at scale: when to use an API or a whole dataset in bulk? (Or both) →

Visualising Hebden Bridge businesses with OpenCorporates data

A map showing the distribution of businesses in Hebden Bridge

This post originally appeared on the author's blog. I've recently been getting involved in the Open Data movement through association with ODI Leeds, where I spend some of my working week as a co-worker. I'm the sort of person who learns by doing, so I've been on the look out for a project which would give … Continue reading Visualising Hebden Bridge businesses with OpenCorporates data →

API v0.4.x now the default (and adds another tiny new feature)

Last week we launched Version 0.4 of OpenCorporates' API, and with it brought some rather sexy new features (such as power searches, searching by address, new industry code functionality, and searching officers by address). As promised this has been on-demand for the past week, with v0.3.2 remaining the default in order to allow our regular users to try it out, … Continue reading API v0.4.x now the default (and adds another tiny new feature) →

API v0.4 released: power search features (+ more data)

Not everything OpenCorporates does is sexy. But it is all important, even the backend work that bit by bit is making the largest open database of companies in the world even better. This week, we're happy to announce the latest version of the API (our service which allows direct access to our data), many of which have been enabled … Continue reading API v0.4 released: power search features (+ more data) →

OpenCorporates API used by Accountability Hack organised by National Audit Office, ONS & Parliament

Last weekend saw Accountability Hack, a hackathon focussing on making innovative use of public data from National Audit Office, Office of National Statistics and Parliament. The joint event was a great opportunity to examine how Parliament works, to delve into how public sector expenditure is audited, and to understand the key statistics generated by the public … Continue reading OpenCorporates API used by Accountability Hack organised by National Audit Office, ONS & Parliament →

New API version released: corporate networks, accounts, and more

We're proud to announce that version 0.3 of the OpenCorporates API is now live, with many, many new features, improvements (and even a few bug fixes). Along the way, we've also given it a visual refresh: The major improvements are: Access to corporate networks – our open corporate network work is truly ground-breaking, and providing … Continue reading New API version released: corporate networks, accounts, and more →

Guest Post: Data Sketching With the OpenCorporates API

Tony Hirst, a lecturer in the Department of Communication and Systems at The Open University, and author of the OUseful.info blog has been using the OpenCorporates API for some time. Here's a review of some of his experiments. Looking back over my datajunkie notes, I may only have been using the OpenCorporates API since March … Continue reading Guest Post: Data Sketching With the OpenCorporates API →

Announcing version 0.2 of the OpenCorporates API

We're pleased to announce the new version of our API (version 0.2), with some significant enhancements and improvements. In particular, you can now search the 39 million company directors and officers that OpenCorporates has (with more being added every day). Here's an example: We can now also return XML for those who need this instead of … Continue reading Announcing version 0.2 of the OpenCorporates API →